Anyone listening to Resonance 104.4 FM during Sept / Oct on Monday evenings at 6.15 (in 2019) would have heard my radio series, Melissa McCarthy’s View from a Shark. But it’s never too late: you can stream, all around from far away across the world, just by clicking on each mixcloud listen again device, below. 

Episode 1. TEETH, incorporating placoid scales; Captain Cook and his demise; iron weapons and other weapons; 14^th Century poet John Gower; Odysseus and his family; the jaunty ditty Food Shark by Nina Katchadourian.

Episode 2. The LIVER, with vitamin A; French whaling ships; soothsayers and dissection; existential despair; Plutarch; Groucho Marx.

Episode 3. Sharks and KIDNEYS, with Lake Nicaragua; tintoreros; Brownian motion; moving house in Athens; Hildegard Kneff. 

Episode 4. The WOMB, with: cannibalism; early photography; ultrasound; self-portraiture; pregnancy.

Episode 5. EYES: anthropologist Franz Boas; sharks at the cinema; parasitic copepods; Bikini Atoll; looking at the screen and at the page.