Living with Oliver Sacks and love in later life: Bill Hayes and Sylvia Brownrigg – podcast
Living with Oliver Sacks and love in later life: Bill Hayes and Sylvia Brownrigg – podcast
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Living with Oliver Sacks and love in later life: Bill Hayes and Sylvia Brownrigg – podcast
Living with Oliver Sacks and love in later life: Bill Hayes and Sylvia Brownrigg – podcast
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Why we need to rethink climate change, with Timothy Morton – books podcast
This week, we talk to philosopher Timothy Morton about his book Being Ecological and why we need...
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Steven Pinker defends the Enlightenment – books podcast
Is the world going to rack and ruin? The psychologist Steven Pinker makes the case for progress...
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Do our memories make us who we are? – books podcast
Wendy Mitchell talks about her memoir of early onset dementia and neuroscientist Jules Montague...
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Max Tegmark and Ken MacLeod on artificial intelligence – books podcast
How would it feel to be outperformed by a machine? We discuss the AI revolution with physicist...
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Time-travelling with Michael Brooks and Britt Wray – books podcast
We examine the ethics of de-extinction and the origins of quantum mechanics with two science...
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Hearing voices with Charles Fernyhough and Francesca Kay – books podcast
We tune in to the voices inside our heads with the psychologist Charles Fernyhough and the...
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Hearing voices with Charles Fernyhough and Francesca Kay – books podcast
We tune in to the voices inside our heads with the psychologist Charles Fernyhough and the...
45:59
Simon Ingram and Fiona Reynolds on our natural landscapes – books podcast
Simon Ingram tackles the forbidding rock face of the mountaineering memoir, while Fiona Reynolds...
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The art of memory with Abby Smith Rumsey and Simon Bill – books podcast
We explore memory and forgetting with a fictional artist who struggles with recall and a cultural...
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Richard Dawkins and Carlo Rovelli on science and culture – books podcast
Two of the world’s foremost scientists discuss how to bridge the divide between the arts and...
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Daniel Dennett on consciousness and 100 years of Anthony Burgess – books podcast
The influential thinker talks about From Bacteria to Bach and Back, and we discuss the Clockwork...
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Ultimate questions with Adam Biles and Sean Carroll – books podcast
We examine beginnings and endings, with a novel set in a nursing home and a physicist who...
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Colin Thubron and John Aggleton on memory – books podcast
How can we construct a sense of self from the fragments of life we can recall? We dissect how...
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Searching for alien life with Jim Al-Khalili – books podcast
As 21st-century telescopes transform the hunt for extraterrestrials from SF to hard science,...
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The reason not to feed your puppy a samosa, the elephant that became an osteopath, more Eugenics...
Hominids / What's your favourite question?
Getting our science from bonk-busters and techno, alternative theories for why Neanderthals went...
Richard Dawkins: intellectual titan or tiresome self-publicist? – books podcast
John Crace boils Richard Dawkins's memoir, An Appetite for Wonder, down to just 600 words, while...
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Kim Stanley Robinson and Sheldon Solomon on exploration and death – books podcast
Can humanity escape extinction by reaching for the stars? We confront final questions with the...
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Ralph Steadman, Ceri Levy and poems about climate change – books podcast
We join Ralph Steadman in his studio as he teams up with Ceri Levy to put birds threatened with...
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