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Eyes Stop Moving

Eyes Stop Moving

They’re putting people into MRI scanners to find out which parts of their brains are stimulated by reading.  Nothing new to LAD listeners – we covered this in 2010 and to some extent with David Eagleman in 2009 (always on the leading edge, us).  But tonight, Dr. Susan O’Doherty tells us where this research is heading… prepared to be freaked, folks.

With her feet in the fridge and her head in the stars, newcomer Kate Milford is both delightfully cool and fully financed, via the rather wonderful KickStarter… hear how she did it!

If anyone knows the link to Dave’s YouTube “50 Shades” clip, please tweet it to us… but do watch your bodily functions…

Presented by Peter Cox with Dave Bartram and featuring the chilled-out Ali Gardiner in the chat room.

Join us in the chat room for next week’s live show!

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Joseph Boyden: Who Are You, Really?

“I’m kind of confused by the question... I think that’s very much a White construct”
Susan Greenfield - Baroness of the Brain

Susan Greenfield – Baroness of the Brain

Love Her or Loathe Her, Just Don’t Ignore What This Top Scientist Is Saying About Your Brain

For The Love of Film

Three Authors, Three Film Buffs, Two Directors And A Memory Of Jam...

The Icelandic Book Flood

From Havana To Reykjavík, It’s Raining Books... Muy Caliente!

The Year’s Midnight

The World's Whole Sap Is Sunk

Money, Medicine & Marijuana

The Highs And Lows Of Legal Weed

Of Headscarves & Hymens: A Candid Conversation With Mona Eltahawy

Bruised, Defiant – Just Don’t Try Rescuing Her

The Hard Conversation

Enough With The Bombing. Let’s Talk About Peace In The Middle East

Good Grief

What Does Grief Tell Us? Simply, That We Should Be Nicer To Each Other

France A La Mod – or, A Beer in Provence

Every Englishman Secretly Dreams Of Living In France. That's When The Nightmare Begins.

The Viral Mind of Susan Blackmore

What Is Consciousness? Not What You Think

Beki Adam – Top Gear Mutineer

Forget About Clown Clarkson. This Lady Is The Real Top Gear Rebel

Inside The Waugh Zone

Evelyn Waugh’s grand-daughter talks Hollywood, hookers and her new novel, Honeyville

El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Deadly Drugs Wars

Getting High on Dead Mexicans

The Litopia After Dark Xmas Family Murder Show!

Banned By The Vatican! Damned By Berlusconi For Moral Turpitude! Humped By DSK! Here At Last!

Attack of the Tax Resistors

Would You Buy A Second-hand War On Terror From This Man?

The Cosmic Trigger

Robert Anton Wilson’s Cult Classic Becomes A Play on Fnords
Mal Peet

The World According to Mal Peet

Thank You For The Beating, Sir! May I Have Another?
Three Faces of War –The Lady

Three Faces of War –The English Lady

Lindsey Hilsum, Our Woman in Damascus
Three Faces of War – Very Special Forces

Three Faces of War – Very Special Forces

It Takes Heroism To Fight A War. But Even More Courage Not To.
Three Faces of War – The Assassin

Three Faces of War – The Assassin

What Really Happened In Sarajevo On That June Day A Hundred Years Ago
The Greatest Escape

The Greatest Escape

You May Think You Know About World War Two… But You Don’t.

Ukraine, Crimea & World War III

Step Away From The Red Button, Vladimir

The Redskin Word

"All We Wanted Was To Be Left Alone..."

The World’s Deadliest Country

Welcome To The Land Where Time Goes Backwards

Wilde About Barbie

No tears please, it's a waste of good suffering

The Great Global Warming Showdown: Moment of Truth

The Risk of Being Wrong

The Next Mass Extinction Event

This Is Not A Bedtime Story. This Is An Asteroid Headed Right For Us.

The Trouble with Trains

They Stab It With Their Steely Knives, But They Just Can't Kill The Beast

Everything Is Under Control

Out of these troubled times a New World Order can emerge

The Love of Money

We Have Exalted Making Money To Be The Only Thing That Has Any Value

Voulez Vous Cartoonez Avec Moi, Ce Soir?

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach

Sex and the Bipolar Explorer

There was once a Cypriot banker...

Bullets On The Brain

Getting the Story at Gunpoint - the Life and Times of David Holthouse

The Slog: Exposing Weapons of Mass Distraction

His mission - to expose Distraction, Distortion and Deception

The Causes of the First World War

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Litvinenko: Murder Most Foul

"May God forgive you for what you have done..."

Fighting For Libraries

Are they worth saving? How do we save them?

Rhett Butler: Giving A Danum

Named after an iconic movie character, in real-life he's more like Indiana Jones!
Waterstones James Daunt with Russell Norman

Russell Norman: Book of the Year

He's beaten Hilary Mantel, Artemis Cooper, Robert Macfarlane & Simon Garfield to win Book of the Year!

One-on-One with Geoff Dyer

Get to know one of the finest writers in the world today
One-on-One: Jane Austen Special

One-on-One: Jane Austen Special

We're all crazy about Jane!

Litopia’s Xmas Office Party with Professor Elemental

"What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day"

Celebrate The Apocalypse with Pippa Middleton!

How can you enjoy the End without Twinkies?

Lonesome Tonight?

Was the Earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?

The Last Refuge of a Scoundrel

When was Britain's finest year?

The Secret Desires of Women

She's a libertine - but not a slut

All Hallows’ Eve

God lives on a planet near the star Kolob

The Zelig of American History

You'll question much of what you know about the last half century of US history

The Spirit Molecule

Not so much of a drug, more a vehicle that gets you to a place

Buccaneers

The first pilot to fly under the Eiffel Tower