All In The Mind

In 1800, a young boy emerged from the woods of the Aveyron District in France, naked and wild. He became a scientific enigma to influential psychologist Dr Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard, and redefined the nature vs. nurture debate. His legacy lives on today, especially in the Montessori approach to learning. NB: The All in the Mind podcast edition is a different program from the broadcast edition this week for copyright reasons. And, the streaming audio is on the BBC's website here.

NOTE - we cannot bring you the podcast or transcript of this series because it comes from the BBC and the ABC does not hold copyright.

This week's podcast comes from All in the Mind archives instead. Details and transcript are below.

You can hear the BBC series again on their website as streaming audio. The link to that is also below.

Guests

Adriana Benzaquén
Associate Professor of History
Mount Saint Vincent University
http://www.msvu.ca/history/faculty/benzaquen.htm

Uta Frith
Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Development,
University of London.
Research Foundation Professor,
University of Aarhus
http://www.icn.ucl.ac.uk/dev_group/people.htm

Harlan Lane
Professor of Psychology,
Northeastern University, Boston
http://www.psych.neu.edu/people/faculty/lane.html

Michelle Balle Stinckwich
Librarian with L'Institut National de Jeunes Sourds de Paris
http://www.injs-paris.fr/

Thierry Gineste
Author of Victor de l'Aveyron: Dernier enfant sauvage, premier enfant fou (Les Hommes et leurs signes)

Michael Newton
Author of Savage Girls and Wild Boys: A History of Feral Children

Dr Geoff Rolls
Psychologist
Author of Classic Case Studies in Psychology

Further Information

The All in the Mind blog with presenter Natasha Mitchell - Comment on, discuss the program

This week's streaming audio for the BBC's The wild boy of Aveyron
Link to the BBC Four website for audio on demand for this week's broadcast edition.

This week's podcast - The Inner Life of the Broken Brain: Narrative and Neurology
From the All in the Mind archive this week. Not the same as the broadcast program for copyright reasons.

Publications

Title: Wild Boy of Aveyron
Author: Harlan Lane
Publisher: Paladin (1979)
ISBN-13: 978-0586083031

Title: Savage Girls and Wild Boys: A History of Feral Children
Author: Michael Newton
Publisher: Faber and Faber (2003)
ISBN-13: 978-0571214600

Title: Encounters with Wild Children: Temptation and Disappointment in the Study of Human Nature
Author: Adriana Benzaquen
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press (2006)
ISBN-13: 978-0773529724

Title: The Wild Child (film)
Author: (Dir.)Francois Truffaut
1970

Music

CD title: Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689-1755): Cinq Sonates pour Basson et Basso continuo
Track title: Sonate en mi Mineur
Artist: Kim Walker, Clena Stein, Darryl Nixon
Duration: 1'12"
Composer: Boismortier
CD details: Gallo

Presenter

Natasha Mitchell

Producer

Marya Burgess

Reporter

Claudia Hammond