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Writer James Nestor, musician Soweto Kinch, Forensic Architecture's Imani Jacqueline Brown

Writer James Nestor, saxophonist Soweto Kinch, Imani Jacqueline Brown of Forensic Architecture and New Generation Thinker Tiffany Watt Smith join Lisa Mullen to consider breathing.

Lisa Mullen is joined by Imani Jacqueline Brown from Forensic Architecture, whose exhibition for the Manchester International Festival explores the links between power and air quality; journalist James Nestor, whose best selling book traces his search for medical answers to his sleeping and breathing problems; jazz saxophonist Soweto Kinch; and New Generation Thinker Tiffany Watt Smith who has been considering the cultural history of sighing and book The Anatomy of Melancholy.

Cloud Studies is the first part of an investigation by Forensic Architecture commissioned by MIF. It runs at the Whitworth in Manchester 2 July-17 October and online.

Breathe: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor is out in paperback.

The Anatomy of Melancholy has been republished by Penguin.

The Black Peril by Soweto Kinch is available now.

Soweto Kinch performs with the London Symphony Orchestra as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival on 19 Nov 2021 at the Barbican in London.
 
Producer: Emma Wallace

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