Our bodies all have stories to tell - and who better to tell them than fifteen of the world\'s finest writers? Buried Beneath layers of flesh, our hearts pump, our lungs inflate, our kidneys filter.
Based on the BBC Radio 3 series \'A Body of Essays\'.
Moving, comical and often unexpected, this is an awe-inspiring voyage through the mysterious landscape of our bodies.
A traumatic memory can show itself on the skin.
The lungs weigh about the same as a loaf of bread.
In Beneath the Skin, fifteen writers each explore a different body part: Naomi Alderman unravels the intestines and our obsession with food
Thomas Lynch celebrates the womb as a miracle
AL Kennedy explores the nose\'s striking ability to conjure memories; and Philip Kerr traces the remarkable history of brain surgeryThe human stomach, we discover, contains as many brain cells as a cat has in its head.
These organs, and others, are essential to our survival but remain largely unknown to us.
Our bodies all have stories to tell - and who better to tell them than fifteen of the world\'s finest writers? Buried Beneath layers of flesh, our hearts pump, our lungs inflate, our kidneys filter
