Emergency Sex and other podcasts

Jorge Luis Borges
So how has Borges' work informed ideas about our experience of the world through language? How much was his writing shaped by his travel abroad and an unrequited love? And how has his legacy inspired the next generation of great Latin American authors such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mario Vargas Llosa

Samuel Beckett's 100th birthday

Raphael Rubinstein
Ladino is the language used by the Sephardi Jews of the Ottoman Empire. It evolved out of a combination of Old Spanish, Hebrew, Greek and other tongues... it is the Sephardi equivalent of the Ashkenazi Jews' Yiddish—the language that came out of Middle German, Hebrew and Slavic languages

Chinese Brother of Christ
Hong Xiuquan believed he was the younger brother of Christ and by 1850 had 20,000 Chinese followers gearing up for a rebellion.

Then They Started Shooting
Child psychiatrist Lynne Jones spent a considerable amount of time with kids in Bosnia after the war and since set up mental health programs in post-diaster and post-conflict areas like Aceh, Iraq, Pakistan, Mississippi and Sierra Leone

Mafia and the garbage trade in the USA

The greatest gift
Donating your body, or the body of a child, to medical research is a great gift to mankind. Most of you can be recycled: your eyes, your skin, your bone or even a little piece of your heart. Now they want to grind your bones for surgical putty. Then, your dead bits will be helping a biotech company's bottomline too. Can altruism and commerce live side-by-side when it comes to giving "the greatest gift of all"?

Envisioning the Survey Interview of the Future
Michael Schober, Dean, The New School for Social Research, Professor of Psychology

'Cracking the century' - Healthy ageing

Mikhail Gorbachev

Carly Fiorina on Tough Choices

Podcast with Dierdre McCloskey

Health Insurance in Development

HIV and Corruption

Shibli and Early Years of Muslim League from symposium on One Hundred Years of the All-India Muslim League

Emergency Sex - and other desperate measures
Emergency Sex is not a new release. It was first published in 2004 and the events it talks about took place in the 90s. But it's still flying out the door of bookshops around the country and is still being cited as one of the most 'stunningly candid memoirs of peacekeeping operations' ever written