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Remember, Remember

October 18th, 2008 by Russell Davies

I have no idea what my wife’s mobile phone number is. My phone knows but I don’t. That worries me slightly, but not enough to do anything about it. Susan Blackmore investigates this phenomenon, and others, about memory and the technologies and things we use to help us remember. It’s especially interesting about Gordon Bell and MyLifeBits and Deb Roy and his studies of language through filming hours and hours of his children’s formative years. Programme page here. MP3 here. Excellent stuff from Radio 3.

Presenter: Susan Blackmore
Producer: Hugh Levinson
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The Mozart Effect

December 11th, 2007 by Steve Bowbrick

I’m putting this 2002 programme up not because of the topic (I reckon you know all about the ‘Mozart effect‘ by now) but because it’s really good, satisfying factual radio: Presenter Paul Robertson is leader of The Medici Quartet: he’s enthusiastic and (obviously) knowledgeable.

He interviews a lot of fascinating scientists and musicians - including Oliver “Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat” Sacks - about the music’s effect on listeners and about the catalogue of supposed medical conditions that may have contributed to Mozart’s genius (MP3).

The show’s web page is here, a profile of the composer from the Radio 3 site here and - blimey - the show’s Real stream is still up too (it’ll be five years old tomorrow!). The British Library’s lovely flippy-page Shockwave facsimile of a late Mozart manuscript has loads of music clips and an audio commentary to listen to too - so that’s your afternoon sorted out.

Presenter: Paul Robertson
Producer: Paul Evans
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