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Free Thinking: Henry Marsh Tom Stoppard's The Hard Problem, Daniel Levitin

Henry Marsh Tom Stoppard's The Hard Problem, Daniel Levitin

28/01/2015

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Henry Marsh Tom Stoppard's The Hard Problem, Daniel Levitin

With Tom Stoppard's play The Hard Problem, plus musician and neuroscientist Daniel Levitin

Matthew Sweet is joined by Henry Marsh and Susannah Clapp to review Tom Stoppard's play The Hard Problem at the National Theatre. Plus musician and neuroscientist Daniel Levitin.

Surgeon Henry Marsh and critic Susannah Clapp review the opening of Tom Stoppard's 'The Hard Problem' at the National Theatre tonight. It follows a young scientist at a brain science institute investigating the nature of consciousness.

Matthew Sweet is also joined by musician and neuroscientist Daniel Levitin. His new book is 'The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload'.

And New Generation Thinker Alasdair Cochrane and Anne Phillips, author of a forthcoming book
'The Politics of the Human', discuss what comprises humanness.


Producer: Harry Parker.

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