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The Memory Experience: Sharpen Your Memory

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3/6. To what extent can you improve your memory?
This week Mariella Frostrup discusses how vulnerable our memories are as we try holding on to new information, and meets researcher Sue Gathercole , who explains how our working memory can be actively developed in childhood. The acclaimed pianist David Owen Norns reveals how it's possible to memorise a whole sonata and how techniques employed by performers can feed into everyday life. Producer KatyHickman Repeated at 9.30pm

Contributors

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Mariella Frostrup
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Sue Gathercole
Pianist:
David Owen Norns
Source: Radio Times

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