Lisa Appignanesi

Is passion greed, need, or the expression of strong and barely controllable emotion that we sometimes call love? What is the difference between madness and badness?

Broadcaster and novelist, Lisa Appignanesi is author of Mad, Bad, and Sad: a history of women and the mind. Her latest book, Trials of Passion, takes examples of love at its most extreme or dangerous and examines what happens when interior feelings and passions become scrutinised public property.