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The Evan Bray Show - Daniel Willingham - December 13th, 2023

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Audiobooks are gaining in popularity, recently becoming a multi-billion dollar industry. Daniel Willingham, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia and author of ‘The Reading Mind: A Cognitive Approach to Understanding How the Mind Reads,’ joins Evan to settle a debate… is listening to an audiobook just as good for your brain as reading a book?
13 Dec 2023 12PM English South Africa News Commentary

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