Dr. Xand van Tulleken
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1,476 appearances
9 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 5d ago
Dr. Xand van Tulleken’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Well, that's true, and quite good, that, actually.
If you were going to try and buy it, it was written in cuneiform on big stone tablets.
Probably the only one you could really take home in a tote bag.
That's the oldest known major work of literature.
King Gilgamesh of Uruk.
He's obsessed with cheating death.
And is he still around?
Spoiler alert.
He does not succeed in his quest.
But as the Hay Festival reminds us, if you write a good enough book, you live forever.
So longevity is a really ancient idea.
It's an ancient quest.
But there's a more modern idea of health.
span, the amount of that long life that we spend living for a long time.
That's more contemporary, is it, Zand?
Yeah, I'm sorry, Chris, this actually really annoys me.
So those of you that follow a range of the sort of longevity literature, the podcast, the stuff on the social media, will be familiar with this idea that there's a whole new concept in medicine, the idea of healthspan, this ingenious thing that doctors...
In the past, only wanted us to live for a long time, but now we figured out that a long, healthy life is much more important.
And this is not a new idea.
If you had been living in ancient Greece, this would have been a very familiar story.
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