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Start the Week: Loneliness and Inner Voices

Loneliness and Inner Voices

11/04/2016

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Loneliness and Inner Voices

Andrew Marr with Charles Fernyhough, Olivia Laing, Alistair McDowall and Frances Wilson.

Andrew Marr discusses the inner voice with Charles Fernyhough, Olivia Laing, Alistair McDowall and Frances Wilson.

On Start the Week Andrew Marr talks to the psychologist Charles Fernyhough about the inner speech in our heads. But what if it's a lone voice? The writer Olivia Laing explores what it's like to be lonely in a bustling city, while the playwright Alistair McDowall explores what happens when you're abandoned on a distant planet with no sense of time. The biographer Frances Wilson writes a tale of hero-worship, betrayal and revenge through the life of Thomas De Quincey, a man who modelled his opium-habit on Coleridge and his voice and writing on Wordsworth.
Producer: Katy Hickman.

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