Kim Hill Wants To Know

The secret to living well for longer is one geneticist Dame Linda Partridge has been trying to uncover for much of her career. In this episode of Kim Hill Wants To Know, she talks with Kim about the scientific breakthroughs that could mean the end to aging as we know it.
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Kim chats with neuroscientist Sir Richard Faull about the wonders of the human brain and the work being done to unlock its secrets.
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Kim Hill sits down with linguist and etymologist Anatoly Liberman to talk about words – their meaning, their history and how languages evolve.
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Kim Hill speaks with journalist Nick Wallis about his time covering the UK’s Great Post Office scandal - described as England's worst miscarriage of justice - and discovers the story is far from over.
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Caroline Crampton resisted the idea that she was a hypochondriac, but now she's written an entire book on the history of the condition.
Is this normal Doctor?
The more we know about things, the more there is to worry about. This is especially true of our bodies, where it seems impossible that something isn’t going wrong all the time.
Caroline Crampton is a hypochondriac and has written a book on the history of the condition - A Body Made of Glass.
Crampton tells Kim Hill it took a long time to even entertain the idea that she might be a hypochondriac.
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