Podcasts Assorted

Peter Vickery QC on ex post facto

Privatising Palm Island

Demonising Dissent
In 12th Century Northern France, the pursuit of heresy rose to a peak when a former self-confessed heretic became a pursuer of heretics. Lawyer and medieval studies student at the University of Sydney, Hilbert Chiu, tells the story of Robert 'the Bugger' in the age of the Cathars, Bogomils and the witch craze

Writing good sense about music: the art of listening

Molyneux's problem
Who was Molyneux and what was his problem? He was an Irish physician of the eighteenth century interested in the psychology of sight and his problem was this: could a person born blind, who knew shapes only by feeling, recognize those shapes by sight if his sight were suddenly restored to him? In other words, how are our senses connected?

Spiritual Classics: Spiritual Exercises

The Malvinas-Falklands War

The Blind Brain- Part 1 and Part 2

God and Caesar in America
Gary Hart, Scholar in Residence, The Wirth Chair in Environmental and Community Development Policy, University of Colorado at Denver; former Senator (D-CO

The Golden Road: Inspiration and chance in the two cultures
Emeritus Professor John Bradshaw from Monash University in Melbourne looks at the history of science, literature and the arts in the Middle East and speaks of personal experiences encountered while travelling to countries in that area about 40 years ago

Klein of Northeastern Sees Baseball Becoming a Global Sport

Rosen of Princeton Concerned About Possible Mortgage Regulation

Guatam Ivatury on the Cellphone and the Mattress (World Bank)