Event 510
BBC Radio 4: All in the Mind
Claudia Hammond talks to Joanna Kavenna, Dr Paula Byrne and Ben Alderson-Day
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How does fiction rewire the brain? Claudia Hammond explores the range of imaginative experiences that fiction readers have, how novels can deepen our capacity for empathy and the therapeutic effect of reading on our minds.
She is joined by leading experts in psychology and the literary world: award-winning novelist, essayist and travel writer Joanna Kavenna; Dr Paula Byrne, Jane Austen biographer, writer and founder of ReLit: The Bibliotherapy Foundation and Ben Alderson-Day, Professor in Psychology at Durham University and lead researcher on ReaderBank, an ambitious ongoing research project studying reading, imagination and wellbeing.
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