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28 July 2002

Faltering Memory

We'd like to think our memory is reliable even photographic, but more often than not, it isn't. How do our memories get screwed out of shape or are they all jumbled up to begin with? Why do our brains rewrite our history?

In the first of two programs, BBC journalist Ian Peacock delves into our cerebral filing cabinet and discovers things are not as they seem.

 

Transcript

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