
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


Adam Rutherford and his guests at the Hay Festival, neurologist Dr Suzanne O'Sullivan, acoustic engineer Professor Trevor Cox and science writer Dr Philip Ball discuss what scientists learn when things go wrong. Suzanne O'Sullivan, author of Brainstorm, talks about how she helps her patients with strange and unusual forms of epilepsy; Trevor Cox, whose new book is called Now You're Talking, describes cases where our voices change, such as stammering and foreign language syndrome; and Philip Ball, who is part of Created out of Mind, a Wellcome funded project about dementia and the arts, explores what happens when our brains age.
By BBC Radio 44.4
284284 ratings
Adam Rutherford and his guests at the Hay Festival, neurologist Dr Suzanne O'Sullivan, acoustic engineer Professor Trevor Cox and science writer Dr Philip Ball discuss what scientists learn when things go wrong. Suzanne O'Sullivan, author of Brainstorm, talks about how she helps her patients with strange and unusual forms of epilepsy; Trevor Cox, whose new book is called Now You're Talking, describes cases where our voices change, such as stammering and foreign language syndrome; and Philip Ball, who is part of Created out of Mind, a Wellcome funded project about dementia and the arts, explores what happens when our brains age.

7,575 Listeners

526 Listeners

889 Listeners

1,048 Listeners

294 Listeners

5,458 Listeners

2,117 Listeners

2,085 Listeners

602 Listeners

90 Listeners

974 Listeners

419 Listeners

87 Listeners

822 Listeners

236 Listeners

336 Listeners

351 Listeners

476 Listeners

370 Listeners

232 Listeners

326 Listeners

3,186 Listeners

110 Listeners

68 Listeners

836 Listeners

510 Listeners

623 Listeners

118 Listeners

269 Listeners

255 Listeners

64 Listeners

77 Listeners

2 Listeners