Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

Memory

Memory is the faculty of the mind by which data or information is encoded, stored, and retrieved when needed. It is the retention of information over time for the purpose of influencing future action.

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  1. Memory

    Melvyn Bragg discusses the significance of memory. Is it a repository of events waiting to be plucked to consciousness?

    29 May 2003

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    Featuring: Martin Conway, Mike Kopelman, Kim Graham

     
  2. Memory and Culture

    Melvyn Bragg discusses how our ways of remembering have changed and explores whether memory itself can remain forever unchanged in its role within our psychology.

    27 May 1999

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    Featuring: Malcolm Bowie, Nancy Wood