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Free Thinking: Mental Health

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Anne McElvoy looks at ASMR, clean air, loneliness and a memoir exploring mental health.

Human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith, New Generation Thinker Dr Sabina Dosani and the curators of new exhibitions exploring ASMR and air join Anne McElvoy.

From a death row prisoner to the schemes to raise money dreamt up by his father: human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith has written a memoir exploring the impact of mental health on his family, his clients in the legal system and himself.  New Generation Thinker Sabina Dosani is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist. She writes a postcard for Mental Health Week about Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness.  Curator George Vasey discusses activism on air pollution and curator James Taylor-Foster explains the sensations of ASMR. Anne McElvoy hosts. 

Trials of the Moon: My Father's Trials by Clive Stafford Smith is out now.
Sabina Dosani is a 2022 New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to turn research into radio
https://sabinadosani.com/
In the Air runs at the Wellcome Collection from 19 May 2022—16 October 2022
Weird Sensation Feels Good: The World of ASMR runs at the Design Museum from May 13th 

Producer in Salford: Cecile Wright 

You can find a new Music & Meditation podcast on BBC Sounds or take some time out with BBC Radio 3’s Slow Radio podcast. 
And Radio 3’s Essential Classics has a slow moment every weekday at 11.30am
There is also a Free Thinking episode called Breathe hearing from Writer James Nestor, saxophonist Soweto Kinch, Imani Jacqueline Brown of Forensic Architecture and New Generation Thinker Tiffany Watt Smith https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000xszq

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