Radiant Minds: A Badass Neurologist
Who was Oliver Sacks, and why are we still talking about him? Featured guests: Orrin Devinsky, Steve Silberman, Jonathan Lynn (film director), Connie Tomaino, Josh Groban.
Radiant Minds: At What Cost
What if Sleeping Beauty had taken four decades to awaken, and her prince had become an old man? Featured guests: Orrin Devinsky, Andrew Lees (UCL), and Ruth di Roma (whose mother was an Awakenings patient.)
Radiant Minds: Brainstorm
A surgeon is struck by lightning and becomes obsessed with one all-consuming passion. Featured guests: Tony Cicoria, Orrin Devinsky, Evangelia Chrysikou (Drexel.)
Radiant Minds: Sea Squirts and Tourette’s Syndrome
Tourette’s syndrome reveals a fundamental part of human nature. Featured guests: Witty Ticcy Ray, Lowell Hander, Chloe Winston, Claudia Porass Scott—all of whom live with Tourette’s.
Radiant Minds: Remembering is About the Future
Markie Pasternak has not forgotten a single day since she was eleven. Featured guests: Markie Pasternak, Andre Fenton (NYU), James McGaugh (UC Irvine), Joey Degrandis.
Radiant Minds: Music as Medicine
Singers Renee Fleming and Josh Groban help us explore how music can restore brain function. Featured guests: Debbie (music therapy patient), Sarah Thompson (music therapist), Connie Tomaino (music therapist.)
Radiant Minds: Blue Elephants
Losing vision – visually or mentally – can lead to surprising results. Featured guests: Dominic ffytche (Imperial College), Amit Patel, Christopher Bailey, Ed Catmull (founder of Pixar.)
Radiant Minds: Acrobats of Gravity
How do we keep track of our own limbs? Dancer/choreographer Bill T. Jones and astronaut Marsha Ivins explore. Featured guests: Ian Waterman, Jonathan Cole MD.
Radiant Minds: The Only Way Out is Through
The weird specificity of traumatic memory and how one woman found her way out. *Contains sensitive content* Featured guests: Lori Tipton, Jennifer Mitchell (UCSF), Billy Hayes.
World Premiere of “Awakenings” Opera | June 5—24, 2022
Nearly twenty years ago, Oliver Sacks wrote a letter to his friend Tobias Picker, whose opera, An American Tragedy, [...]
Oliver Sacks: His Own Life | US Trailer
Directed by Ric Burns The award-winning documentary explores the life and work of the legendary neurologist and storyteller, [...]
Watch an Exclusive Clip | Oliver Sacks: His Own Life
Watch an exclusive clip from the documentary by Ric Burns, Oliver Sacks: His Own Life.
Oliver Sacks: His Own Life | Original Soundtrack
Listen to the original motion picture soundtrack for the award-winning documentary Oliver Sacks: His Own Life. Composed by Brian Keane.
BAMPFA Live Q&A | Oliver Sacks: His Own Life
A live conversation and Q&A recorded in conjunction with BAMPFA’s streaming presentation of Oliver Sacks: His Own Life. Featuring the film’s director, Ric Burns; Kate Edgar, Executive Director of the Oliver Sacks Foundation; and Bill Hayes, photographer, writer, and Sacks’s partner; moderated by professor Indre Viskontas.
Exclusive Trailer for Attitude Magazine | Oliver Sacks: His Own Life
Watch an exclusive trailer from Oliver Sacks: His Own Life, one of the many clips used to promote the film in the UK.
Voicemail Message by Director Ric Burns | Oliver Sacks: His Own Life
Listen to a voicemail message from Oliver Sacks: His Own Life director, Ric Burns, about one of his favorite Oliver Sacks books, On The Move.
Awakenings, Featuring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro is on Netflix
The 1990 film from Penny Marshall based on the book Awakenings is now available to watch on Netflix, Apple TV, and a number of streaming services.
Seeker: This Neurological Disease Kept People Sleeping for 40 Years
The science that inspired Oliver Sacks’ seminal work Awakenings, is brought to a new generation via Seeker's digital-first science programming.
Sample Audio from Tobias Picker’s “Awakenings” Opera
Listen to three tracks from the 2019 Workshop of Tobias Picker's Awakenings Opera, recorded at Opera Fusion in Cincinatti, [...]
Oliver Sacks’s Ipod Playlist
When Musicophilia was published Wired Magazine asked Oliver Sacks for a list of his favorite recordings. From Bach to Beethoven and Mozart to Mendelssohn, we've recreated this playlist to include music by Oliver Sacks's favorite composers.
Tenor David Portillo Sings “I am a Flower” | Awakenings Opera
Tenor David Portillo sings “I am a Quiet Flower” from the Awakenings Opera. This clip was recorded in celebration [...]
Tribeca Talks At Home: Awakenings with Robert De Niro, Walter Parkes, Ric Burns & Kate Edgar
In honor of the 30th anniversary of 1990's Awakenings in 2020, Tribeca Talks at Home organised a very special [...]
SciFri Book Club Playlist | On The Move
Add some musical accompaniment to your reading of On the Move with these Sacks-inspired tracks, curated by Brain Pickings’ Maria Popova, for SciFri Book Club.
The Animated Mind of Oliver Sacks | In Production
The Animated Mind of Oliver Sacks is a journey into the mind and work of Oliver Sacks. Filmmaker Dempsey Rice’s decade of interviews with Oliver combine with animation, archival material and cinematic new filming, to take this film beyond conventional biography and into Oliver’s mind and world.
TEDTalks: What Hallucination Reveals About Our Minds
In this TEDTalk from 2009, Oliver Sacks brings our attention to Charles Bonnett syndrome -- when visually impaired people [...]
Oliver Sacks’s Mozart Playlist
In 2007, Wired Magazine asked Oliver Sacks for a list of the recordings that could be found on his [...]
Michael Nyman: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat | Soundtrack
Listen to the soundtrack for Michael Nyman's opera based on The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. [...]
Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the Brain | BBC Documentary
A one-hour BBC documentary on music therapy as part of Alan Yentob’s “Imagine” series. Produced by Louise Lockwood and [...]
Hallucinations with Oliver Sacks | World Science Festival
Oliver Sacks joined award-winning journalist John Hockenberry at the The World Science Festival in 2012 to discuss his book [...]
Oliver Sacks’s Speaking Voice Transcribed for Piano | By British Composer, Pete M Wyer
Back in early 2020, we shared an excerpt of Oliver Sacks being interviewed on The Dick Cavett Show in [...]
Inside Oliver Sacks’s Brain | NOVA Short
Can the power of music make the brain come alive? See an expanded version of the film's sequence on [...]
BBC Desert Island Discs with Oliver Sacks
Dr. Sacks was a guest on the BBC's Desert Island Discs in 1994. Listen to the interview with presenter Sue [...]
Oliver Sacks Interview | PBS NewsHour, 1989
“The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour” spoke with Sacks in 1989. Joanna Simon asked him how he would like to be remembered [...]
