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'Would you mind doing it again?' - Steven Pinker on meeting his wife for the first time
Kirsty Young's castaway this week is cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker.
An author and Harvard professor he's been named by Time Magazine as one of the world's 100 most influential scientists and thinkers.
Here tells how he met his wife through his use of an irregular verb, and how a further mistake sealed their fate.
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Interviewed Guest | Steven Pinker |
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