Podcast: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and its legacy

In this episode, Philip Ball is joined by Miranda Seymour, Frank James and Angela Wright to discuss the context in which the book was written and how the tale has become a popular myth with a life of its own, independent of Shelley's original text.

Listen time: 1:27:05
Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus
Image credit: Theodor von Holst via Wikimedia Commons

2018 marks 200 years since the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, a book that is just as relevant now as it was in 1818. Today, Shelley's creature lives on, as an embodiment of society's anxieties about where science is taking us.