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Blue Dot: What your tummy has to say: a conversation with Elsa Richardson

Elsa Richardson, author of Rumbles: A Curious History of the Gut
Jo Hanley
Elsa Richardson, author of Rumbles: A Curious History of the Gut
Rumbles: A Curious HIstory of the Gut
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Rumbles: A Curious History of the Gut

Host Dave Schlom visits with Elsa Richardson, an academic at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow where she holds a Chancellor's Fellowship in the History of Health and Wellbeing at the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare.

Her new book, Rumbles: A Curious History of The Gut is a fascinating journey through the story of our ongoing quest to understand the process of digestion.

From the earliest days of medicine in ancient times to the modern movement to improve the microbiome in our tummies, it's an enlightening discussion of the social, medical and psychological history of digestion.

Dave Schlom is the longtime host and creator of Blue Dot. From surfing to Voyager in interstellar space, rock guitar to orcas in our imperiled oceans, the topics on Blue Dot are as varied as the host’s interests and connections -- which are pretty limitless! An internationally respected space history journalist, Dave is also deeply fascinated by all aspects of the grand workings of nature’s awesome machinery on scales ranging from galactic to subatomic. And topics take in all aspects of the arts and sciences.
Matt Fidler is a producer and sound designer with over 15 years’ experience producing nationally distributed public radio programs. He has worked for shows such as Freakonomics Radio, Selected Shorts, Studio 360, The New Yorker Radio Hour and The Takeaway. In 2017, Matt launched the language podcast Very Bad Words, hitting the #28 spot in the iTunes podcast charts.