MEDIA: Listen

Oliver Sacks Readings and Interviews:

• People's Pharmacy: Dr. Sacks discusses Musicophilia in this podcast (January 24, 2009).
  
  
• Radiolab: Dr. Sacks is a frequent contributor to this WNYC science program. Below are links to the episodes on which he has appeared.
  
  
  • "Yellow Fluff and Other Curious Encounters": Dr. Sacks discusses his childhood fascination with the periodical table (December 12, 2008).
  • "Choice": Dr. Sacks overcomes poor judgment by allowing himself only limited options and a strict routine (November 14, 2008).
  • "Pop Music": Dr. Sacks tried to explain why our brains produce such vivid music (March 21, 2008).
  • "Memory and Forgetting ": Dr. Sacks talks to WNYC’s RadioLab about Clive, a man who has lost everything (January 25, 2008).
  • "Where am I?": Oliver Sacks tries to find himself using magnets (May 5, 2006).
  • "Emergence": What happens when there is no leader? (January 29, 2006).
  • "Time": Dr. Sacks has used photography to get inside time since he was a little boy (February 25, 2005).
    
    
• Krulwich on Science: "Who is Singing Me Lullabies?" (December 15, 2007).
  
  
• All Things Considered: Sacks talks with Andrea Seabrook about the brain's relationship to music. (October 21, 2007).
  
  
• Science & The City: Two Musicophilia-related podcasts are available here (October 2007).
  
  
• Music and the Mind: A conversation with New Yorker staff writer Larissa MacFarquhar in a series hosted by the Columbia University Arts Initiative (January 2006)
  
  
• Fresh Air at 20: NPR rebroadcasts an interview with Dr. Sacks (1987)
  
  
• Going Binocular: Susan's First Snowfall: Morning Edition (June 26, 2006)
  
  
• Talk of the Nation: A discussion about music and memory (December 30, 2005)
  
  
• Morning Edition: Dr. Sacks discusses the ferns of Oaxaca, Mexico
  
  
• The Infinite Mind: Interview with Dr. Sacks about Tourette Syndrome
  
  
• Science Friday (Part 1) (Part 2): Island of the Colorblind/Giant Squid audio on NPR
  
  
• Rockefeller University: "Narrative and Science", Lewis Thomas Prize (2001)
  
  
• CBS Radio: Interview with Don Swaim (1989)

Miscellany

• The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: A chamber opera by Michael Lyman based on Dr. Sacks's book of the same name. [CU Libraries]

The Arts Initiative at Columbia University, 2009
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