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BRAINLAND

BRAINLAND

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 Brainland the podcast navigates the boundary between neuroscience, the arts and humanities with the occasional wander off piste. It began as a neuro-historical exploration of the background to the Brainland the opera but quickly spread its wings. A Brainland Collective production.

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    • SEASON 2 FINALE: Surfing Brainland

      SEASON 2 FINALE: Surfing Brainland
      Feb 7 2026

      The final episode of season 2 is a compilation of 10 male and 10 female voices from season two, chosen more or less at random, about 90 seconds from each episode sampled at or around 20 minutes in. Thanks to all guests for a fascinating season and see you in season 3.

      The key to the episodes and timings is below:


      1.10. Kimberly Campanello.(26) DANTE, DOPAMINE AND ME: Neuro-poetic and other explorations into language.

      2.36. Mark Solms. (29) '...PERCHANCE TO DREAM: On the neuroscience of sleep and dreaming...

      4.12. Raquel Medina. (2) I FEEL I AM NOT IN MY PERFECT MIND: Alzheimer's and cognitive decline in movies.

      5.45. Antony Penrose. (31) DREAM WARRIORS: Exploring the world of the surrealists...

      7.40. Eileen Joyce and Sheldon Benjamin (10) NEUROPSYCHIATRY: Second Coming or Unholy Alliance?

      9.15. Erika Dyck (13) EXPANDING MINDSCAPES: A psychedelic world tour.

      10.40. Owen Flanagan (8) WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE AN ADDICT? A philosopher tells it like it is.

      12.33. Fiona Sampson. (39) FRANKENSTEIN DISASSEMBLED: The remarkable life of Mary Shelley.

      13.43. Nick Lane. (3) EVOLUTIONARY BIOCHEMISTRY: New perspectives on the chemistry of you.

      15.20. Joanna Kempner (11) PSYCHEDELIC OUTLAWS

      16.16. Jon Stock (35) WILLIAM SARGANT AND HIS 'SLEEP ROOM': Shrinks, spooks and medical hubris.

      17.56 Julia Vassilieva (38) DISCOVERING EISENSTEIN: Part 2 - Neuroscientific collaborations.

      19.24. Jonathan Dove (21) OH FOR THE WINGS OF A DOVE: From choirboy to Operatic Maestro.

      20.57. Tricia Durdey. (7) UPSIDE DOWN IN A HOOP: Processing change through writing, dance and circus skills

      22.25. Eugen Wassiliwitzky (9) POETRY AND THE NEUROAESTHETICS OF SURVIVAL.

      23.33. Pia Tikka. (19) NEUROCINEMATIC EXPLORATIONS: Cinema creators in the act of creation.

      25.20 Frank Burke (30) DREAMWORKS: Fellini's dream obsession, from graphic diaries to movies.

      26.26. Emily MacGregor (18) WHILE THE MUSIC LASTS: Life, loss and musicology.

      28.28. Austin Lim (32) HORROR ON THE BRAIN: The neuroscience behind sci fi and horror.


      Host: Ken Barrett, visual artist, writer and retired neuropsychiatrist: http://www.kenbarrettstudio.co.uk


      Opening music: Prelude to the opera Brainland, composed by Stephen Brown.

      Brainland the opera website: www.brainlandtheopera.co.uk

      Portrait sketches by KB

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      31 min
    • FRANKENSTEIN DISASSEMBLED: The remarkable life of Mary Shelley.

      FRANKENSTEIN DISASSEMBLED: The remarkable life of Mary Shelley.
      Feb 2 2026

      Fiona Sampson's probing biography of Mary Shelley is the first of a trilogy of biographies of 19th century writers of the romantic period. After sharing her approach to biography, Fiona talks about Mary's famous parents: Mary Wollstonecraft, influential philosopher and educator, who died of puerpural fever shortly after Mary's birth, and William Godwin and radical philosopher. We discuss the intellectual household in which she became a precociously intelligent child, her reading that included key 'natural philosophers, of the day, two long childhood trips that found their way into 'Frankenstein', her elopement at 16 with philandering poet Shelley, the ever-present step-sister, and their subsequent travels. These included the fateful stay in Geneva where Byron had taken a villa and the idea of writing horror stories arose. The book was completed when she was only 18 and we explore the various themes and interpretations of the novel, an immediate best-seller with several early stage versions. We talk about her bereavments (3 of 4 children and Shelley, in 1822), her challenging life post-Shelley, and her other novels, including the less known but equally genre-creating 'The Last Man'. To conclude, Fiona reads a summing up section from the end of her book. A terrific in depth conversation about an extraordinary woman.


      Participants:

      Fiona Sampson, poet, biographer, Professor Emerita, University of Roehampton; Senior Research Fellow, Harris Manchester College University of Oxford. https://www.fionasampson.co.uk/

      Ken Barrett, visual artist, writer and retired neuropsychiatrist: http://www.kenbarrettstudio.co.uk


      Fiona's biography 'In search of Mary Shelley': https://www.fionasampson.co.uk/book/in-search-of-mary-shelley-the-girl-who-wrote-frankenstein/

      Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus' (1818): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein

      Mary Shelley's 'The Last Man' (1826): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Man


      Opening and closing music: Prelude to the opera Brainland, composed by Stephen Brown.

      Brainland the opera website: www.brainlandtheopera.co.uk

      Portrait sketch by KB

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      1 h et 8 min
    • DISCOVERING EISENSTEIN: Part 2 - Neuroscientific collaborations.

      DISCOVERING EISENSTEIN: Part 2 - Neuroscientific collaborations.
      Jan 29 2026
      Soviet era film director and theorist Sergei Eisenstein began collaborating with Alexander Luria and Lev Vigotsky, key figures in neuropsychology and developmental psychology, in 1925, the year he released his most famous film, Battleship Potemkin. Julia Vassilieva, after studying psychology in Moscow, got the opportunity to study the papers of Luria and Vigotsky, both of whom had a long term collaboration with Eisenstein. We talk about them, their work, Eisenstein's involvement in their research and what he took from them. Julia outlines the perilous times they lived in, Luria means of surviving the various purges and how out of favour Vigotsky was perhaps spared execution by dying of TB in 1934. We talk about what Eisenstein regarded as his life's work, the still largely untranslated 'Method' uncompleted when he died in 1948 and future directions for Eisenstein research. Another great transdisciplinary Brainland conversation.Participants:Julia Vassileva, Senior Lecturer in Film and Screen Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/julia-vassilieva/Ian Christie, Professor of Film and Media History, Birkbeck, University of London. www.ianchristie.orgKen Barrett, visual artist, writer and retired neuropsychiatrist: http://www.kenbarrettstudio.co.ukPapers by Julia: EISENSTEIN AND CULTURAL-HISTORICAL THEORY, 2017, The Flying Carpet. Studies on Eisenstein and Russian Cinema in Honor of Naum Kleimanhttps://www.academia.edu/40926187/"The Eisenstein-Vygotsky-Luria Collaboration", 2019, Projectionshttps://www.academia.edu/100293838/The_Eisenstein_Vygotsky_Luria_Collaboration"Psychological Humanities, Sciences, and the Arts in Russia"in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology,2020https://www.academia.edu/100293865/Psychological_Humanities_Sciences_and_the_Arts_in_Russia"Sergei Eisenstein", in Screening the Past, December 2017 Great DirectorsIssue 85https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2017/great-directors/sergei-eisenstein/Oksana Bulgakowa’s biography of Eisenstein: https://europe.potemkinpress.com/products/oksana-bulgakowa-sergei-eisenstein-a-biography-1More on Eisenstein: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_EisensteinJulia and Ian's recent book 'Eisenstein Universe'. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/eisenstein-universe-9781350142091/More on A.R.Luria: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_LuriaA. R. Luria's 'The man with the shattered world': https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674546257Lev Vigotsky: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_VygotskyVigotsky's 'Psychology of Art': https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262720052/the-psychology-of-art/ Opening music: Prelude to the opera Brainland, composed by Stephen Brown. Brainland the opera website: www.brainlandtheopera.co.ukPortrait sketch by KB Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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      48 min
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