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The Neuromantics

Season 1

Episode 9

The prof and the poet bring a beautifully meandering arc to their discussion of inner voices in this episode – starting with a poignant Old English poem about loneliness and rejection and moving on to a paper on auditory verbal hallucinations. Historically, being alone – or “friendlessness” – was a dangerous state to find yourself in. But did the interior world have its compensations? Can hearing voices actually be a thing of comfort as well as of concern? Neuroscientist Professor Sophie Scott and writer Will Eaves take apart the phenomenon of imaginary companions and explore why our brains might generate conversations that only we can hear.

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The Neuromantics

Season 1

Episode 8

The pleasure of making and listening to music. Is it universal? Or is it a very varied experience? The Neuromantics – author Will Eaves and neuroscientist Professor Sophie Scott – explore our neurological responses to music and ask how these may have changed over the years and with technological developments. What role has ritual to play? How does music help us communicate? And why should taste and culture be such strong influences on our listening habits? As ever the professor and the writer share their scientific and literary offerings and veer off into some eye-opening asides (the surprisingly strict rules of polyamorous engagement and rubber clubbing gear among them.)

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The Neuromantics

Season 1

Episode 7

In the 90s, the psychology community was tying itself in knots over whether forgotten traumas could or should be recovered through therapy. In this episode of the Neuromantics, writer Will Eaves and neuroscientist Professor Sophie Scott revisit the so-called memory wars, and discuss the controversial issue of repressed memory (now rebranded as dissociative amnesia). If the brain has gone to all the trouble of suppressing trauma, is it beneficial to retrieve these past experiences? Can they be used reliably in criminal trials? And what has all this got to do with axolotls?

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The Neuromantics

Season 1

Episode 6

In this episode, the Neuromantics take apart the sound of music, the scientific phenomenon that is. Writer and poet Will Eaves and neuroscientist Professor Sophie Scott discuss how the human ear processes musical sound, focusing in particular on pitch and timbre. Visiting, as ever, a scientific paper and a literary offering, they revel in the soaring possibilities of the voice – that exceptional musical instrument which we’re all handed at birth.

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Chocolate Cake for Imaginary Lives is a unique collection of culinary-themed short stories written by Genevieve Jenner and published by Deixis Press. Funny, frank and full of the mess and magic of food preparation, this collection brings you the most delicious surprises.

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The Neuromantics

Season 1

Episode 5

The Neuromantics – writer Will Eaves and neuroscientist Professor Sophie Scott – delve deeply into emotions in this episode, and explore how our feelings are recalled and expressed. Taking as their starting point a poignant poem about the memory of illness, they move onto a Finnish scientific paper on the bodily mapping of emotional responses. But they save their most trenchant discussion for our most commonly encountered non-verbal vocalisation - also known as laughter.

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London Epitaphs

12 Lieutenant Gilbert Price

The date and place of Lieutenant Gilbert Price's death - Dublin 1920 - leads local historian Mike Guilfoyle to discover a remarkable story hidden away in Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries in South East London. The young Londoner had a pivotal role in one of the most memorable and bloody events of the Anglo-Irish War of Independence - the notorious Talbot Street gunfight. This bonus episode of London Epitaphs traces the run-up to the incident and explores how it was reported at the time.

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The Neuromantics

Season 1

Episode 3

“Remember me when I am gone away.”

The opening line of Christina Rossetti’s celebrated poem marks the starting point to a discussion of death in this episode of The Neuromantics. Exploring new research into death rites among primates, neuroscientist Professor Sophie Scott and writer Will Eaves ask whether our brains are really capable of grasping our own demise. As ever, they make some fascinating detours along the way, this time contemplating the relationship between smell and mortality, the phenomenon of the “voice from beyond” in English literature and the shocking extensiveness of meerkat infanticide.

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The Neuromantics

Season 1

Episode 3

What are we actually seeing when we visualise the world? How could the blind Milton have recreated such a sumptuously colourful Eden? And why do babies use their mouths as the first means of ‘seeing’ objects? In episode 3 of The Neuromantics, writer Will Eaves and neuroscientist Professor Sophie Scott explore what happens when our brains recreate external images, stopping off to discuss aphantasia, how primate brains compute colour and how the writer Saki constructed a child’s world view in his deliciously dark short story, The Lumber Room.

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The Watch - an audio trailer

Read by Georgina Sutton

The Watch, written by Bibi Berki and published by Salt, is a dark story of obsession. Two uncompromising young women meet under extraordinary circumstance one midsummer night at university. By the time the sun comes up their fates have been sealed.

Shortlisted for the Lucy Cavendish and Exeter fiction prizes.

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