From the Radiolab podcast: Radiolab wishes Oliver Sacks a happy birthday.

First aired back in 2013, we originally released this episode to celebrate the 80th birthday of one of our favorite human beings, the late Oliver Sacks. To celebrate, his good friend and our former cohost Robert Krulwich, asked the good doctor to look back, and explain how thousands of worms and a motorbike accident led to a brilliant writing career.

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