Sam Knight
speaker
180 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 31 Jul
Sam Knight’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I mean, she was clearly kind of fascinated by it, but I wouldn't say that it sort of, it weighed on her.
He worked in a big building on the embankment in London on the international switchboard, so, you know, pulling out cables, reconnecting them on these long shifts.
They would be, for him, accompanied by a terrible headache, a kind of growing, growing migraine, that would then be relieved at the moment of the disaster, and then a voice would say to him, like, it has happened, and it would be kind of accompanied by words or information.
I think he was someone who was pushing the frontiers of...
of psychiatry and what he thought the mind could do.
And I think, you know, it's difficult to kind of reconstruct the scientific mainstream of the mid-1960s, but it was a more kind of capacious sort of weirder space than it maybe is today.
And so he was on the edges and he got in trouble for things, but he wasn't a kook by any stretch.
He's in a hospital for 1,000 people.
He's responsible for 250 severely ill people.
He's been given the first antipsychotic medication in 1955.
You know, they're just beginning to experiment with the treatment of serious illness and delusions.
And in that context, telepathy, seeing things before they happen, it's just not the craziest thing he's heard that day.
The hierarchy in his hospital was not receptive to really any sort of research agenda, let alone one that was pretty fringe.
If I tell you that something terrible is going to happen to you, does that have a physiological component?
Does that kind of overwhelm the body in some way and sort of bring that thing into being?
One of them was a man having a dream of standing in front of a computer, which was obviously a kind of fairly unusual thing in the mid-60s, and just seeing the words Aberfan on a black screen in front of him.
David Frost took one look at them through the door and decided they were too strange and motley to go on stage with him.
To sort of avoid the hindsight problem, where it's like, oh, yeah, well, you would say that after the event.
Instead, people were invited to send in kind of open-ended prophecies and premonitions.
Yeah, that's it.
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