Is the idea that you should 'listen to your body' more than a nebulous concept?

Lots of people think sword-swallowing is fake. It's real, but how do you get some 60cm of cold, hard steel down the oesophagus and into the stomach without hurting yourself?

Polio isn't yet eradicated from the world. It still exists in Pakistan and Afghanistan. And if you had it as child in Australia and elsewhere last century, you may well now be experiencing a recurrence of symptoms.

The Alexander Technique is used around the world by people ranging from performers, horse riders and swimmers...to knitters, nuns and funeral directors. What are its principles? Can it help you?

Meet three ultra-flexible people who can bend and stretch every which way - including the world’s oldest contortionist.

How did a man who didn't like sport come to host the greatest athletic event the world had ever seen?

Meet a doctor who grew up wanting to be a geographer and who views the human body as a kind of territory to map and explore. He also finds ways of relating his patients’ ailments to ancient stories. A man in emergency has the same injury as a warrior in the Iliad; a young woman with blood poisoning in an isolation cubicle recalls Snow White in her glass casket.

Learn how to throw a theatrical punch and how to strangle or stab someone convincingly without hurting them at all.

If you go to the gym, you're participating in a tradition that dates back nearly 3,000 years.

A program about virtuoso inhaling and exhaling.