I’d like to thank my sister-in-law, Julie, for letting me know about an interesting programme on BBC Sounds, all about people who cannot ‘hear’ remembered sounds in their heads – like a loved one’s voice, or the sound of a door closing.

Well, that’s something else I lack! I don’t ’hear’ myself talking in an interior monologue although I spend a lot of time talking to myself in my head. When I say ‘talking to myself‘, there is no sound, imagined or otherwise; I just imagine myself talking to myself. This is even more difficult to describe than aphantasia!

The programme is called ALL IN THE MIND and was first broadcast on March 5th this year. The bit about anauralia is during the last 5 or so minutes of the 28 minute long programme, but the rest of the programme is very interesting, too!

It would be interesting to hear from anyone who has either or both of these reasonably rare conditions or people who can’t imagine not having either!