10/09/2011 GMT
With all the advances in neuroscience, are we any closer to understanding the mystery of memory? And what can photographs and literature tell us about the way we remember?
Ten years since 9/11, the Forum contemplates the role of memory, shared and private, visual and literary.
Bridget Kendall's guests are: photographer Dorothy Bohm, whose remarkable photographs have captured the lives of ordinary people worldwide over seven decades; physician turned philosopher Raymond Tallis, who argues that memory remains a mystery, which neuroscience has still not been able to fathom; and Russian-born writer and broadcaster Zinovy Zinik, whose latest book explores the way our pasts can be embellished or even invented.
Illustration by Emily Kasriel: photographing memories outside the brain; both real and imagined.
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Part 1
Dorothy Bohm: photgraphy and memory
Duration: 12:44
Raymond Tallis
Raymond Tallis: the mystery of memory
Duration: 10:16
Part 2 60 Second Idea:
World Carpe Diem Day
Duration: 04:57
Zinovy Zinik
Zinovy Zinik: 'invention' of memories
Duration: 12:32
Broadcasts
- Sat 10 Sep 2011 08:05GMT大象传媒 World Service Online
- Sat 10 Sep 2011 21:05GMT大象传媒 World Service Online
- Sun 11 Sep 2011 01:05GMT大象传媒 World Service Online
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The Forum
The programme that explains the present by exploring the past