Untapping the code in the memory game

Can you remember what you did last Monday? What about a new colleague you were introduced to two days ago- remember their name? It's frustrating, isn't it, when little details escape your memory. You might worry if it's the start of a mental decline or something more serious but in this conversation between presenter Audrey Carville and Professor Tomás Ryan we find that so-called natural forgetting is actually healthy and that science might just be edging a little closer to unlocking some of the secrets of the brain.