Can We Trust Our Own Memories?
Teach Me A Lesson with Greg James and Bella Mackie
BBC
4.8 • 957 Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Greg James and Bella Mackie didn’t pay much attention at school. So they’re asking Britain’s most inspiring teachers to show them what they missed in this series of fascinating and fun lessons.
This week it's psychology with Mrs Harrowell, who explains how memory works to Greg and Bella - demonstrating her points by testing their recollections of everyday objects and iconic film quotes, and teaching them a dance that means they'll never forget the name of a part of the brain they'd never heard of before this lesson.
Bad students of all ages are welcome. Expect brilliant teachers, captivating subjects but absolutely no homework.
Get in touch with your funny school stories and teacher recommendations - email us at teachme@bbc.co.uk
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | By the end of this podcast, we are going to answer the question, can we trust our own memories. Teach me a lesson. |
| 0:17.0 | Teach me a lesson. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm Bella Mackie. |
| 0:22.0 | And I'm Greg James. welcome to teach me a lesson. |
| 0:25.0 | We've done that way around this week. I know. |
| 0:27.0 | This is a podcast where we get a brand new lesson from a different teacher every single week |
| 0:32.0 | so we can learn some stuff that we would have loved to have learned when we were at school but for whatever reason we didn't. |
| 0:38.0 | Because we were smoking. I definitely wasn't smoking. Behind the boat sheds. I wasn't? I wasn't. |
| 0:43.0 | We didn't have any bike sheds. |
| 0:45.0 | We did have cigarettes. |
| 0:49.0 | Please go back and listen to the other episodes in the series, |
| 0:52.0 | some amazing lessons from some |
| 0:53.7 | completely brilliant teachers. Also our special BBC Sounds exclusive |
| 0:58.3 | episodes called Break Time where we have some special guests, we've had Claire |
| 1:02.2 | Balding, we've had the very funny |
| 1:03.7 | Joe Lice it and this latest one we have Clara Ampho telling us about her |
| 1:09.5 | dating stories from when she was at school. It's almost like a rated 15 version of the |
| 1:15.7 | podcast. It got a bit sassy, it got a bit saucy. I do think it got filthy? |
| 1:18.9 | It did get filthy, yeah. Like really, so I've said things on there that I've never |
| 1:22.4 | told anyone before. |
| 1:24.0 | Literally nobody knows that story about my first kiss. |
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