Colin Thubron and John Aggleton on memory – books podcast

How can we construct a sense of self from the fragments of life we can recall? We dissect how science and fiction shed light on the mysteries of memory

Science and the humanities are too often poles apart, so two of the UK’s most distinguished institutions decided to do something about it. At a special event hosted at the Royal Society in London, and co-presented by the Royal Society of Authors, travel writer and novelist Colin Thubron took to the stage with neuroscientist Jon Aggleton. They discussed issues of memory, emotion and brain structure raised by Thubron’s latest book, a tale of six tenants whose innermost thoughts and values are illuminated by a conflagration in the house where they all live.