The Senses
A collection of programmes and clips celebrating the senses.
How restaurants use music to manipulate customers
Trevor Cox discovers how music affects your taste buds
Perception and the Senses—In Our Time
Melvyn Bragg examines perception: how the brain reacts to the mass of data crowding it.
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Remembrance of Smells Past
Ian Peacock discovers why certain smells can transport us back to our childhood.
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Is time all in our heads?
Is time nothing but a construct of our brains?
Hallucination: Through the Doors of Perception
Geoff Watts explores the cultural and scientific story of hallucination.
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The Science of Taste—The Food Programme
Can changing our dining utensils change the flavour of food? Simon Parkes investigates.
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Hearing my dad’s voice for the first time in 71 years
Margaret Ann's father was killed in WW2, last year she finally heard his voice.
When Soft Voices Die—Something Understood
John McCarthy explores the way people's senses can summon memories and emotions.
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An Image of Sound
Photographer Andrew Heptinstall's quest to represent sound within a photograph.
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Voice—The Digital Human, Series 5
Aleks Krotoski asks if the digital world is muting the human voice.
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Hack My Hearing
Frank Swain, aged 32, is losing his hearing. But could he create a new super sense?
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Hearing the Past
Jim Al-Khalili explores what the past would have sounded like to our ancestors.
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Our Changing Taste—The Food Programme
How our sense of taste develops throughout our lifetimes and what happens when we lose it.
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Nutmeg: The Smell of Christmas?—The Food Programme
For Nigel Slater, nutmeg is 'the scent of Christmas', but Sheila Dillon needs convincing.
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