My 10 favourite podcasts ….at the moment…. well for the last 12 months....

Number 2

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_archive_home.shtml

with Melvyn Bragg

Melvyn Bragg discusses a different topic every week with three experts (usually university lecturers/professors etc.). Some of the topics can be really over the top (I mean, very deep and meaningful). But after 45 minutes or so you come away from this program totally enlightened. A total joy!!

This weekly BBC podcast covers topics ranging from:

SCIENCE: e.g. of some recent progams: Darwin - his life and achievements, The Physics of Time - does time even exist?, Heat: A History - from fire to thermodynamics, Neuroscience - does the brain rule the mind?, Vitalism - the spark of life

RELIGION: e.g. of some recent progams: Miracles - will they never cease?, The Arab Conquests - the 7th century new world order, The Dissolution of the Monasteries - religion in ruins, The Fisher King - the wound that does not heal, The Nicene Creed - when Christ became God


PHILOSOPHY : e.g. of some recent progams: Thoreau and the American Idyll - America in the Wilderness, The Consolation of Philosophy - a new year's message from Boethius, Aristotle's Politics - a perfect society?, The Translation Movement - Aristotle in ArabicMaterialism - are we living in a material world?


HISTORY : e.g. of some recent progams: A History of History - how the writing of history has evolved, The Great Fire of London - London's burning, fetch the engines... The Great Reform Act: reform - but was it great?, Simón Bolívar - the liberator of Spanish America, The Translation Movement - Aristotle in Arabic


CULTURE : e.g. of some recent progams: The Brothers Grimm: fairy tales, Grimm - but not as we know them, A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift - 18th century satire gets close to the bone, The Baroque - the misshapen pearl of Europe, Dante's Inferno - to Hell and back, The Metaphysical Poets - sex and death in the 17th century

Ciao........