Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: Seriously...
Episode: Inside the Brain of Gerald Scarfe
Description: The brain - the final frontier. Radio 4 is setting out on an exploration of the creative mind.Gerald Scarfe's drawings have intrigued and alarmed for more than fifty years but where do his ideas come from? Professor Vincent Walsh of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience has a theory he wants to pursue. Vincent is an expert in the workings of the visual brain; he thinks that two specific areas may be talking to each other in an unexpected way, resulting in recognisable faces being mixed up with recognisable objects, hence Mrs Thatcher as an axe, a handbag...