Curious Cases

5. The Taste of Words


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11 year old Esther visualises days of the week in a kind of 3D structure. It’s something called ‘synaesthesia’ and she wants to know why it happens - and why other people don’t experience things the way she does.

Hannah Fry and Dara Ó Briain explore the vibrant and varied ways different people experience the world, from the man who tastes individual words - including all the stops of the tube - to the composer who sees music in shapes and colours.

And along the way, they figure out why Mozart is white wine while Beethoven is red.

Contributors:

Professor Julia Simner: Professor of Psychology,University of Sussex

Professor Jamie Ward: Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Sussex
James Wannerton, President of UK Synaesthesia Association
CoriAnder: electronic music producer

Producer: Ilan Goodman

Executive Producer: Alexandra Feachem
A BBC Studios Audio Production

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