Robert Douglas-Fairhurst: ‘a new kingdom’

Writer and scholar Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, best-known for writing about literary giants such as Lewis Carroll and Charles Dickens, has turned his attention to his own life. The academic, who discovered six years ago that he had multiple sclerosis, wanted to examine how he had entered ‘a new kingdom, a new country’ with his diagnosis. Martha Kearney spoke to Professor Douglas-Fairhurst at Magdalen College, Oxford where he teaches English Literature about his new book Metamorphosis: A Life in Pieces. (Image, Martha Kearney and Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Credit, BBC)