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BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

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The Essay Podcast

The Essay

Discussion & Talk

Factual: Arts, Culture & the Media

Essays from leading writers on arts, history, philosophy, science, religion and beyond.

Leading writers on arts, history, philosophy, science, religion and beyond, themed across a week - insight, opinion and intellectual surprise.

The Essay: The Strangeness of Memory

The Essay: The Strangeness of Memory: Episode 5: Memory and the landscape

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The Strangeness of Memory

Episode 5

Episode 5: Memory and the landscape

Memory and the landscape

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Catherine Loveday explores the relationship between memory loss and landscape.

Neuropsychologist Catherine Loveday explores what life is like when you can only live completely in the present.

Claire woke up one morning to discover that overnight she had lost her memory as a result of a viral infection. Dr Catherine Loveday, a neuropsycholgist at the University of Westminster, has worked with Claire for many years and shares what life is like when you can only live in the present.

Programme image courtesy of Sarah Grice, Wellcome Collection.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Series of essays exploring the significance of memory

Series of essays exploring the significance of memory. Part of Why Music? The Key to Memory at Wellcome Collection

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