Talks and Interviews Archives - Oliver Sacks | Official Website of Author, Neurologist & Foundation https://www.oliversacks.com/watch-listen_category/talks-and-interviews/ Oliver Sacks was a physician, best-selling author, professor of neurology, and founder of the Oliver Sacks Foundation. Tue, 13 Feb 2024 21:52:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 TEDTalks: What Hallucination Reveals About Our Minds https://www.oliversacks.com/watch-listen/tedtalks-what-hallucination-reveals-about-our-minds/ https://www.oliversacks.com/watch-listen/tedtalks-what-hallucination-reveals-about-our-minds/#respond Sun, 12 Apr 2009 13:48:13 +0000 https://www.oliversacks.com/?post_type=avada_portfolio&p=2416 In this TEDTalk from 2009, Oliver Sacks brings our attention to Charles Bonnett syndrome -- when visually impaired people experience lucid hallucinations. He describes the experiences of his patients in heartwarming detail and walks us through the biology of this under-reported phenomenon. READ HALLUCINATIONS

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In this TEDTalk from 2009, Oliver Sacks brings our attention to Charles Bonnett syndrome — when visually impaired people experience lucid hallucinations. He describes the experiences of his patients in heartwarming detail and walks us through the biology of this under-reported phenomenon.

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]]> https://www.oliversacks.com/watch-listen/tedtalks-what-hallucination-reveals-about-our-minds/feed/ 0 Hallucinations with Oliver Sacks | World Science Festival https://www.oliversacks.com/watch-listen/hallucinations-world-science-festival/ https://www.oliversacks.com/watch-listen/hallucinations-world-science-festival/#respond Sun, 01 Jan 2006 10:22:16 +0000 https://www.oliversacks.com/?post_type=avada_portfolio&p=2653 Oliver Sacks joined award-winning journalist John Hockenberry at the The World Science Festival in 2012 to discuss his book Hallucinations. The conversation canvassed the rich cultural history and contemporary science of the hallucinatory experience, and also touched on Sacks’ own early psychedelic forays that helped convince him to dedicate his life to neurology and [...]

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Oliver Sacks joined award-winning journalist John Hockenberry at the The World Science Festival in 2012 to discuss his book Hallucinations. The conversation canvassed the rich cultural history and contemporary science of the hallucinatory experience, and also touched on Sacks’ own early psychedelic forays that helped convince him to dedicate his life to neurology and to write about the myriad riddles of the human mind.

Original Program Date: Nov. 09, 2012
Featuring Oliver Sacks, moderated by John Hockenberry

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]]> https://www.oliversacks.com/watch-listen/hallucinations-world-science-festival/feed/ 0 BBC Desert Island Discs with Oliver Sacks https://www.oliversacks.com/watch-listen/desert-island-discs-with-oliver-sacks/ https://www.oliversacks.com/watch-listen/desert-island-discs-with-oliver-sacks/#respond Fri, 07 Jan 1994 11:38:58 +0000 https://www.oliversacks.com/?post_type=avada_portfolio&p=2626 Dr. Sacks was a guest on the BBC's Desert Island Discs in 1994. Listen to the interview with presenter Sue Lawley. Favourite track: Chu Chin Chow Here Be Oysters by Martin Lawrence Book: Dictionary of Musical Themes Luxury: Scuba diving kit Music Played Grateful Dead Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion) The Best [...]

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Dr. Sacks was a guest on the BBC’s Desert Island Discs in 1994. Listen to the interview with presenter Sue Lawley.

Favourite track: Chu Chin Chow Here Be Oysters by Martin Lawrence
Book: Dictionary of Musical Themes
Luxury: Scuba diving kit

DIDA: Oliver Sacks

Music Played

Grateful Dead
Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)

The Best of Skeletons in the Closet. Warner Brothers.
Castaway’s Favourite

Johann Sebastian Bach
Mass in B minor – Et in carnaus est

Mass in B.Minor. Archive

Martin Lawrence
Chu Chin Chow Here Be Oysters

Chu Ching Chow. World Records.

Frédéric Chopin
Mazurka in B flat major, Op. 7/1

The Chopin Collection – The Mazurkas. RCA Classics.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Don Giovanni Act 2, Scene 6

Don Giovanni. EMI.

Tobias Picker
The Encantadas

Tobias Picker: The Encantadas/Romances & Interlude. Virgin Classics.

Franz Schubert
13 Variations on Trockne Blumen, D802

Denon.

Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet No.14 in C sharp minor, Op. 131

Beethoven: The String Quartets. Deutsche Grammophon.

Book Choice
Dictionary of Musical Themes

[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

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A documentary for VPRO by Wim Kayzer, first aired in the Netherlands in 1993 and on PBS stations in the United States in 1994. More info.

Featuring Oliver Sacks, Stephen Jay Gould, Freeman Dyson, Rupert Sheldrake, Steven Toulmin and Daniel Dennett. From the New York Times: “Holland has only 15 million people, and one million of them watched some or all of “A Glorious Accident,” a rating usually reserved for sitcoms and dramas. A book based on the series was No. 1 on the Dutch best-seller list for months. For the final episode, 12 percent of the adult population tuned in, and the next day some universities closed to give people time to ponder the experience.”

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“The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour” spoke with Sacks in 1989. Joanna Simon asked him how he would like to be remembered in 100 years:

“I would like it to be thought that I had listened carefully to what patients and others have told me,” he said, “that I’ve tried to imagine what it was like for them, and that I tried to convey this.” — Oliver Sacks

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US broadcast. Four-part PBS series by Rosetta Pictures. Christopher Rawlence, producer and director; Emma Crichton-Miller, co-producer. Episodes on “The Ragin’ Cajun” (on a deaf-blind community in Seattle); “Island of the Colorblind” (on color and colorblindness in a small Pacific atoll); “Rage for Order” (on an autistic artist, Jessy Park); and “Don’t be Shy, Mr. Sacks” (on Williams syndrome), September 1998.

U.K. Broadcast. Six-part BBC series by Rosetta Pictures. Christopher Rawlence, producer and director; Emma Crichton-Miller, co-producer. September 1996. In addition to the episodes listed above, the U.K. broadcast included “Poison in Paradise” (a mysterious neurological disease on the island of Guam) and “Shane” (an artist withTourette

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