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(Lynn Cox)
Neurologist Oliver Sacks shares his latest book, Vintage Sacks. Then Lynne Cox, one of the world’s best long-distance swimmers, is here to explain why she’s chosen to swim around the shark-infested Cape of Good Hope and across the Bering Strait from Alaska to the Soviet Union. She’s also swum in Antarctic waters, across the English Channel, and through the sewage-infested Nile. Plus, another neurologist, Alice Flaherty, talks about the physiology of the writing impulse. And a discussion with Dr. Katherine McCaffrey on what’s been going on lately in Vieques.
Oliver Sacks
Physician, neurologist, and writer Oliver Sacks previous books include Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, and Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood.
Visit Oliver Sacks’ website
Music: Awakenings Soundtrack composer Randy Newman
Visit Oliver Sacks’ website
Music: Awakenings Soundtrack composer Randy Newman
Lynne Cox
Lynne Cox is the author of Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer. By age 16, she had broken both the men’s and women’s records for swimming across the English Channel.
Music: Oscar and Lucinda Soundtrack composer Thomas Newman
Music: Oscar and Lucinda Soundtrack composer Thomas Newman
Alice Flaherty
Alice Flaherty looks into the physiological bases for hypergraphia - the overwhelming desire to write. Her book is The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain.
Music: Carrington Soundtrack composer Michael Nyman
Music: Carrington Soundtrack composer Michael Nyman
Katherine McCaffrey
Katherine McCaffrey has been tracking societal changes in Vieques, Puerto Rico since the U.S. Navy left Vieques in May 2003.
Music: A Civil Action Soundtrack composer Danny Elfman
Music: A Civil Action Soundtrack composer Danny Elfman
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