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The Gut Instinct: A Social History Episodes

    5 - The Gut Speaks

    Goblins, gods, and gurgles - Tim Hayward asks what our guts have been trying to tell us.

    4 - The Disease of Civilisation

    Tim Hayward on modern life, constipation; and how indigestion changed political protest.

    3 - The Language of the Gut

    Tim Hayward goes back to the middle ages to track our changing relationship with the gut.

    2 - A Window into the Gut

    Tim Hayward peers through a window directly into the gut.

    1 - Gut Culture

    Tim Hayward on how different cultures have had very different attitudes to the human gut.