Does Listening to Music Make You Healthier? with Daisy Fancourt
Part-Time Genius
iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope
4.5 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Reading a book, going to the movies, listening to your favorite band… you call them hobbies, but acclaimed scientist Daisy Fancourt calls them public health strategies. She joins producer Mary to discuss her new book, Art Cure: The Science of How the Arts Save Lives, and shares insights from her research—like the fact that engaging with the arts reduces the risk of depression, and listening to music before surgery results in faster healing. Daisy also explains why she’s hopeful in the face of widespread cuts to arts funding, and why you don’t have to be good at the arts to benefit from them.
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| 1:01.3 | Hey there, podcast listeners, it's Mango here. |
| 1:07.5 | You know, back when I was in seventh grade, I got the chance to go to the Vatican in Italy. |
| 1:14.3 | And as we were walking through just the opening, I got to turn to my right, and I saw one of Michelangelo's Pietas. I think he's done four Pietas. This wasn't the most famous one, |
| 1:20.7 | but I was insanely moved by it. Now, I'm not a particularly religious person, but something about how he knew |
| 1:30.3 | that the marble was telling him that this story was inside it. And it is just so emotional, |
| 1:38.9 | this image of Christ laying across Mary's lap, and it's just really, really moving. |
| 1:45.8 | And I couldn't understand how much emotion could be held in a rock, essentially. |
| 1:51.6 | And when I went home, I started playing with charcoal's, and I tried to capture that image, |
| 1:57.6 | and I just couldn't get it out of my head, just the way art moved me to something |
| 2:02.2 | that was near tears. And, you know, that story, it actually gets me thinking about how much the arts |
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