I admire people who make things happen, who seize an idea and galvanise those around them to bring that idea to life. This is an act of optimism, a feat […]

We hope you’ve been enjoying our season of online work, Stan’s Internet Cafe. Coming up next is For Quality Purposes … For Quality Purposes is set in a Dispersed Universal […]

This version is captioned, a non-captioned version can be seen here. The material for this conclusion to our series is taken from the end of Robert Burton’s introduction where be […]

This version is captioned, a non-captioned version can be found here. You may have thought that cures through sleep had been fully dealt with in Episode 26, but those approaches […]

This version is captioned, a non-captioned version can be found here. This episode contains a detailed recipe for a dish of ram’s brain that will cure melancholy. It is a […]

This version is captioned, a non-captioned version can be seen here. This episode weighs up the merits of using medicines to cure melancholy and there is much to enjoy here. […]

This version is captioned, a non-captioned version can be found here. The book’s first partition regularly reads like a big list of depressing things that can make you feel depressed. […]

This version is capioned, a non-captioned version can be seen here. This episode is short and sweet, a balm for anyone who is furious about being overlooked or overshadowed, squeezed […]

This version is captioned, a non-captioned version can be found here. Classics are coming think and fast now. Yesterday’s episode was my favourite episode yesterday, today’s episode may well be […]

This version is captioned, a non-captioned can be found here. I love everything about this episode, it is possibly my favourite of the full 35. I love the argument about […]

This version is captioned, a non-captioned version can be found here. This episode starts with a reflection on whether force of will is sufficient to stave off the advance of […]

This version is captioned. A non captioned version can be found here. Sound and ready sleepers can’t easily put themselves in the place of those who struggle to acquire and […]

A non-captioned version can be found here. This episode starts with one of Burton’s fabulous plays on scale. On this occasion he zooms in from the macro to the micro. […]

This version is captioned, a non-captioned version can be seen here. This is one of the series lighter episodes. It is encouraging to learn that we can ‘rectify’ air in […]

This version is captioned. A non-captioned version can be found here. Now, early in the second partition, we start to return to the causes of melancholy set out in the […]

This version is captioned, a non-captioned version can be found here. In the last episode we cleared up the fact that it is okay to ask a doctor to treat […]

This version is captioned, a non-captioned version can be found here. This episode is a fantastic time capsule. It takes us back to a time when we might consider approaching […]

This version is captioned, a non-captioned version can be found here. This is a tough episode as it deals with suicide as the consequence of melancholy. Burton, the vicar, sets […]

This version is captioned, a non-captioned version can be seen here. The Anatomy Of Melancholy was written to be read by both women and men. Mostly it doesn’t distinguish between […]

This version is captioned, a non-captioned version can be seen here. Dramatising this book for the stage wasn’t easy. We adopted numerous strategies one of which was occasionally to have […]

A non-captioned version can be seen here. Helpfully here, in the first of three episodes focusing on the symptoms of melancholy, Robert Burton gives us an easy guide to help […]

A non-captioned version can be seen here. As acknowledged earlier, we are now open to ideas that the health of our bodies may effect the health of our minds, but […]

A non-captioned version can be seen here As we approach the end of Robert Burton’s great survey of melancholy’s causes, which together form Section 2 of the the first Partition […]

Last night’s broadcast of Film On The Radio: Back To The Future, from The Commentators, is available now to here on the company’s Mixlr showreel.

A non-captioned version can be seen here. There’s no putting a gloss on today’s episode, it’s pretty bleak. Our author describes to us the anxiety and misery that arise from […]

A non-captioned version can be seen here. As eager twenty somethings this episode would not have resonated with us as it does now. Now the team are living the anxious […]

A non-captioned version can be seen here. This episode amuses me unduly. In out interpretation these are four scholars complaining about how much they suffer for their vocation. Theirs is […]

A non-captioned version is available here. The twenty first century may have invented ‘selfies’ and ‘likes’ and the assiduous construction of self, through social media; and this century may have […]

A non-captioned version can be seen here Robert Burton would have been a terrible careers’ advisor. In this episode, in an uncharacteristically concise manner, he manages to make fourteen different […]

A non-captioned version can be seen here. We’re deep into the book now. Seven subsections are compressed into this episode setting out the various passions which, if aroused, can lead […]