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Professor Carol Rutter questions Professor Nick Dale from Warwick Medical School as to whether the state of mind and behaviour of Lady Macbeth in the sleepwalking scene are neurologically accurate.
From the depression of Hamlet to the guilt of Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare’s work has many references to mental health. Academics and actors at Warwick Arts Centre explore issues such as depression,...
Fourth in the series of programmes on life in Elizabethan England. Doctors Phil Hammond and Tony Gardner discuss remedies in Elizabethan England including the use of leeches.
Comedy sketch show and a one-off special. Sketches include: a hole in one from an invisible Irish golfer, a version of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, and a visit to the operations room of the Royal Army Medical...
Feature film. A young Hungarian actress (Coco König) becomes the carer of famously difficult stage actor Sir Michael Gifford (Brian Cox), who is in the early stages of Parkinson’s disease. Their...
A largely fictionalised black comedy based on the activities of the eponymous grave robbers. In this version of events, one of the motivations for the criminal actions of William Burke (Simon Pegg) is his...
Educational radio series in which husband and wife Greg James and Bella Mackie meet inspiring teachers. In this edition GCSE English teacher Mrs Steele gives them a lesson about just how gross life was in...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Rebecca Sheir interviews Benjamin Reiss, a professor in the English department at Emory University and the author of Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and...
Television western drama series about the exploits of Dr Michaela (Mike) Quinn, a refined doctor who moves from the civilised world of mid-19th century Boston to a frontier town in Colorado to start her own...
Videorecording of the play by Joseph McDonough and directed for stage by Edward Stern. Loosely based on Othello it is described as a stone-cold tale of love and treachery. Medical examiner Robby (Todd...
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