Hearing voices with Charles Fernyhough and Francesca Kay books podcast

We tune in to the voices inside our heads with the psychologist Charles Fernyhough and the novelist Francesca Kay

We’re exploring inner space this weekend in a podcast that asks: what does it sound like inside your head?

The psychologist and novelist Charles Fernyhough has been studying the experience of thinking since he was a graduate student in the 1990s. He explores the auditory riches of our inner lives and suggests that the soundtrack to our deliberations is forged from the conversations we have with ourselves. But what does this private Babel mean to the writers of fiction? The novelist Francesca Kay takes us back to the analogue era, with a spy who finds himself falling in love with a woman he’s never seen. She tells us how she took herself back to the days of Wimpy restaurants and rusting cars, and how she found herself writing a hymn to the power of sound.

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