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“Historical past” can appear massive and imposing. But it surely’s at all times intensely private – it is all of our particular person experiences that add as much as historic occasions. Over the following few episodes, we’re exploring the private and the way it’s modified historical past: from the story of romantic love, to the person who tried to treatment getting old, to the contents of our desires…
First up, reminiscence and our sense of scent. What if we instructed you that the important thing to time journey has been proper in entrance of our eyes this complete time? Properly, it has: it is in our noses. Immediately on the present, the science — and politics — of scent, and the way it hyperlinks our previous and our current. (Initially ran as The Scent of Historical past).
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Visitors:
Rachel Herz, adjunct assistant professor of Psychiatry and Human Conduct at Brown College and writer of The Scent of Need: Discovering Our Enigmatic Sense of Odor
Mark Smith, sensory historian on the College of South Carolina and writer of A Sensory Historical past Manifesto
Ernestine Deane, musician and storyteller primarily based in Cape City, South Africa.