Summary
Lisa Mullen is joined by Imani Jacqueline Brown of Forensic Architecture, whose exhibition for the Manchester International Festival explores the links between power and the air we breathe; journalist James Nestor, whose best selling book traces his search for medical answers to his sleeping and breathing problems; jazz saxophonist and MC Soweto Kinch; and New Generation Thinker Tiffany Watt Smith, who has been considering the cultural history of sighing and book The Anatomy of Melancholy.
Cloud Studies exhibits investigations by Forensic Architecture - part of Manchester International Festival, it runs at the Whitworth in Manchester 2 July-17 October and is online.
Breathe: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor is out in paperback.
The Anatomy of Melancholy has been republished by Penguin.
The Black Peril by Soweto Kinch is available now.
Soweto Kinch will perform with the London Symphony Orchestra as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival on 19 Nov 2021 at the Barbican in London.
Producer: Emma Wallace
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| 0:21.7 | The stat that is astonishing is they ended with the lowest amount of possession. |
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| 0:34.6 | Welcome to the Free Thinking podcast. |
| 0:36.6 | I'm Lisa Mullen and in this edition we're aiming to make |
| 0:39.0 | you gasp, gulp or perhaps sigh as we explore the power of breathing. It's what keeps us all alive, |
| 0:45.7 | but are we even doing it right? We'll be uncovering the ancient art of breathwork and finding out |
| 0:51.5 | how breathing is the key to music, language and emotion. And we'll be |
| 0:56.2 | thinking about the politics of air, who controls it, and how it can be used by the powerful |
| 1:01.0 | against the rest of us. So take a deep breath, we're going in. Hiya, I'm Linton-Stevens. I just |
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