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Minds at War: Father Browne's Photograph of a Wounded Soldier—Minds at War: Series 3

4/5 Photographer John D McHugh explores one of the war photos of Father Francis Browne.

3/5 Gerald Dawe discusses the little-known poet Francis Ledwidge and his poem O'Connell Street

2/5 Dr Heather Jones of the LSE explores Elizabeth Bowen's novel The Last September.

1/5 Writer Fintan O'Toole reflects on James Joyce's influential novel Ulysses.

5/5 Michigan-based undertaker and poet Thomas Lynch reflects on the uterus.

4/5 Poet and artist Annie Freud discusses the kidneys, the body's most hard-working organs.

3/5 Crime writer Philip Kerr explains how brain surgery has advanced over the years.

2/5 Author Chibundu Onuzo investigates the 'goldilocks' nature of the thyroid gland.

1/5 Author William Fiennes, a sufferer of Crohn's disease, discusss the bowel.

5/5 The attractions of daybreak... when five writers set off on foot - and report back.