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Can you trust your senses?

Can you trust your senses?

Take a journey into the human multi-sensory experience, and you'll see that not everything is as it seems.

  • Listen: The Uncommon Senses on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds

Originally published on 24 March 2017

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