
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
283283 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.

7,708 Listeners

532 Listeners

881 Listeners

1,040 Listeners

283 Listeners

5,541 Listeners

726 Listeners

2,021 Listeners

614 Listeners

94 Listeners

960 Listeners

415 Listeners

88 Listeners

824 Listeners

248 Listeners

354 Listeners

353 Listeners

475 Listeners

372 Listeners

232 Listeners

324 Listeners

3,155 Listeners

110 Listeners

64 Listeners

859 Listeners

1,001 Listeners

500 Listeners

612 Listeners

116 Listeners

279 Listeners

282 Listeners

65 Listeners

82 Listeners

0 Listeners