Podcast Episodes

David Chalmers & Iain McGilchrist

David Chalmers is credited with setting the terms for much of the work done in the philosophy of mind today when he posed the 'hard problem' of consc…

3 years, 9 months ago

Belief, Habit & Religion

For evolutionary scientists studying religion, it's more fruitful to examine what people do in religious contexts, rather than listen to what they sa…

3 years, 10 months ago

Late works

Geoff Dyer, Dame Sheila Hancock and Rachel Stott join Matthew Sweet to discuss the work and performance of writers, artists, athletes and musicians n…

3 years, 10 months ago

ETA Hoffmann

The German Romantic author of horror and fantasy published stories which form the basis of Jacques Offenbach's opera The Tales of Hoffmann, the balle…

3 years, 10 months ago

New Thinking: Waiting

Waiting is an inevitable part of life, whether it’s in the waiting room of a GP surgery or waiting for lockdown to end.

As part of the Waiting Times p…

3 years, 10 months ago

Sheffield reinvented

John Gallagher with an exploration of Sheffield's cultural history through new words, music and film.

3 years, 10 months ago

Slow Film and Ecology

Can a 40-hour film of a Massachusetts garden or a project documenting rice growing over 40 years help us to understand our planet better? Who makes a…

3 years, 10 months ago

Bloomsday, Dalloway Day and 1922

Understanding James Joyce's eye troubles gives you a different way of reading his book Ulysses. That's the contention of Cleo Hanaway-Oakley, who sha…

3 years, 10 months ago

South African writing

Damon Galgut's novel, The Promise, explores the decline of the white Afrikaner Swart family and their failed promise to their black domestic servant.…

3 years, 10 months ago

John McGrath's Scottish Drama

Bill Paterson is a founding member of the 7:84 company established by John McGrath, his wife Elizabeth and her brother to create radical, popular the…

3 years, 10 months ago