The Ruffian on the Stair

A number of people, some of them eminent and well-known, some of them ordinary men and women, talk about death and what it means to them.

Here we Jonathan Miller talking expansively on the metaphors in which he has conceived of it since childhood and how they have influenced his theatre work – Roy Porter on the history of people’s attitudes to it – Oxford philosopher Galen Stawson on how he overcame his terror of it despite lacking still any religious faith – and a London fireman on what it is like to face and see death every day of the week – and so on. A collection, edited by Rosemary Dinnage, who previously wrote a book of interviews about psychotherapy, “One to One”.