Michelangelo's Finger

Raymond Tallis was Professor of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Manchester until 2006. A poet, novelist and philosopher, he was listed by the Economist in 2009 as one of twenty living polymaths, by the Independent in 2007 as one of fifty 'Brains of Britain' and in 2005 Prospect magazine named him as one of Britain's leading Public Intellectuals. The Raymond Tallis Reader was...