What is in a voice? While one 17th-century thinker believed the voice to be an expression of male sexual potency and a 20th-century theorist once called for revolt against
"phonetic consciousness", there is no doubt that the human voice is a complex, powerful and intensely personal phenomenon. Paul Allen explores a many-layered story of philosophy and feeling with Jonathan Ree , author of / See a Voice:
Language, Deafness and the Senses - a Philosophical History. Producer Miriam Newman