York English academic helps bring seventeenth-century writer and polymath into the spotlight

Posted on 6 June 2019

Professor Kevin Killeen has appeared on the BBC's In Our Time, presented by Melvin Bragg, describing the remarkable career and inventive writings of the seventeenth-century polymath Sir Thomas Browne.

Appearing with Kevin were Professors Claire Preston (Queen Mary) and Jessica Wolfe (North Carolina), who are co-editors of an eight-volume Oxford Edition of Sir Thomas Browne, bringing Browne's voluminous, learned and entertaining works to new audiences.

Kevin has previously edited a selection of Browne's writings in Oxford University Press's prestigious 21st-Century Oxford Authors series.

The episode of In Our Time, broadcast on 6 June 2019, is available for download from the BBC website.