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In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer

In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer

Daisy Fancourt: How Art Can Change Our Health and Our Lives

Sep 18, 2026 · 58m

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About this episode

Frank Schaeffer talks with Professor Daisy Fancourt, author of Art Cure: The Science of How the Arts Save Lives, about something many artists, parents, teachers, and grandparents have understood intuitively for years: art matters to our health. Daisy Fancourt has spent years studying how music, painting, literature, dance, theater, storytelling, and everyday creativity affect our minds and bodies. Daisy and Frank discuss the science connecting arts engagement with anxiety, depression, lonelin...