Radio Lab: Memory and Forgetting

What is self in a world where your memories can be deleted?

This hour of Radiolab, a look behind the curtain of how memories are made...and forgetten.


Remembering is an unstable and profoundly unreliable process--it’s easy come, easy go as we learn how true memories can be obliterated, and false ones added. And Oliver Sacks joins us to tell the story of an amnesiac whose love for his wife and music transcend his 7-second memory.[1]