All Programmes- Play: Something Wrong about the Mouth
- 20 January 2007 - Saturday 2.30-3.30pm
- Specially written for BBC Radio 4 by celebrated playwright David Edgar, a love story told at the border between memory and fiction, trust and betrayal, East and West. Starring Damian Lewis, Bill Paterson, Lisa Dillon, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Andrew Sachs and David de Keyser.
- Memory Plays: Present into Past
- 22 - 26 January 2007 - 10.45-11.00am
- rpt. 22 - 26 January - 7.45-8.00pm
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Two writers - Michael Butt and Rachel Joyce - used contributions to the Memory Survey as a starting point to create five vivid and imaginative plays which explore memory.
- The Memory Experience: The Results
- 24 January 2007 - 09.02-09.30am
- Dr Mark Porter and his guests Esther Freud, Prof Roy Jones and Prof Martin Conway discuss the results of the research into the Memory Survey, including the nation's top flashbulb event.
- In My Pram, I Remember
- 24 January 2007 - 11.02-11.30am
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1800 of the memories we collected were very early "preverbal" memories - some from as early as 6-11 months old. This result has shocked scientists and academics who believe that adults do not remember memories of childhood before they can talk. Research agrees that the mean age for true autobiographical memories is 3.5 years - but it appears that the nations' memories and scientific study disagree.
- Features: Me and My Memory
- 22 - 26 January 2007 - daily 3.45pm (repeats)
- Most of us take our memories for granted. In this series you'll meet six people who don't have that luxury. What's it like having a compulsion to invent false memories about yourself all the time? How do you cope with being unable to recognise your own face or those of your closest family? What does a memory champion have to do each day to keep their minds in peak condition and and is their extraordinary skill a blessing or a curse? Discover the amazing and bizarre in this compelling series and find out if science can explain what's really going on
- The Memory Experience
- Saturday 22 July 2006 9.00am
- BBC Radio 4 rips up the Saturday morning schedule as Mariella Frostrup and Dr Mark Porter launch the biggest ever experiment into collective memory. As well interviews with celebrity guests, the programme will feature listener emails, top tips on how to improve your memory from Professor Roy Jones and Mark will be out and about exploring how memory changes at each stage of life
- Sharpen Your Memory
- 26 July - 30 August 2006 - Wednesdays 9.00am
- Mariella Frostrup talks to leading scientists, historians and artists about memory: memory and identity, collective memories, the degeneration of memory, broken memories. The programme will look at ways of improving your memoryand will feature the memories of BBC Radio 4 listeners
- Features: Me and My Memory
- 26 July - 23 August 2006 - Wednesdays 9.30am
- Most of us take our memories for granted. In this series you'll meet six people who don't have that luxury. What's it like having a compulsion to invent false memories about yourself all the time? How do you cope with being unable to recognise your own face or those of your closest family? What does a memory champion have to do each day to keep their minds in peak condition and and is their extraordinary skill a blessing or a curse? Discover the amazing and bizarre in this compelling series and find out if science can explain what's really going on
- Science: The Making of Memory
- 1-15 August 2006 - Tuesdays 9.00pm
- What makes a Memory? How accurate is memory? When something awful happens, is it better to remember or forget? A three-part series looks at the latest research into the science of memory. Programme one examines the genetic basis of memory, programme two asks how easily can our memories be manipulated? Programme three discusses what happens to our memories when struck by post traumatic stress disorder
- How to Improve Your Memory
- 9 August - Wednesday 8.00pm
- Co-hosted by Professor Robert Winston and Dr Tanya Byron, this interactive TV special invites you to take part in a range of experiments to test your memory and receive practical help on how to improve it
January 2007David Edgar: Something Wrong about the MouthMe and My Memory (repeats)Summer 2006 |
