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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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41 minutes

Last on

Sun 11 Sep 2011 01:05GMT

Chapters

  • 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
  • Sat 10 Sep 2011 21:05GMT
  • Sun 11 Sep 2011 01:05GMT

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