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Free Thinking - Neuroscience

Free Thinking - Neuroscience

Rana Mitter discusses a new model for understanding the brain, with researcher and...

Arts & Ideas · BBC Radio 4

April 9, 201546m 44s

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Show Notes

Rana Mitter discusses a new model for understanding the brain, with researcher and writer Norman Doidge. Polish film director Krzysztof Zanussi talks about his latest film - Foreign Body - and a new touring festival of classic Polish cinema selected by Martin Scorsese. Activist Srdja Popovic is a proponent of non-violent protest and was a founder of the student movement Otpor! which helped to bring about the downfall of Slobodan Milosevic. He and writer Kate Maltby talk about the strengths and weaknesses of peaceful resistance.