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Radio 3,10 Jan 2018,45 mins

The In Between

Free Thinking

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Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough explores the uncanny possibilities of the In Between with the neuroscientist Dean Burnett, award-winning poet Vahni Capildeo, artist Alexandra Carr, writer and walker of London and other wastelands, Iain Sinclair, and the philosopher, Emily Thomas. How do our brains and bodies react in the In Between spaces of the airport lounge or the station platform where we're waiting to move on but temporarily in stasis and why have so many artists, writers and poets used these places to explore the uncanny, the strange and ourselves? Dean Burnett: 'The Idiot Brain' is out now Vahni Capildeo: 'Matters of Expatriation' is out now; her forthcoming collection 'Venus as a Bear' is out in April 2018 Iain Sinclair: 'The Last London' is out Alexandra Carr: Sculpting with Light, University of Durham residency Emily Thomas: Absolute Time: Rifts in Early Modern British Metaphysics; Early Modern Women on Metaphysics - both out in 2018 Producer: Jacqueline Smith Photo: Waiting Room for Studio BA in BBC Broadcasting House (BH), July 1932.

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