Assorted Podcasts

Review of new Collins Australian Dictionary

Sex, Guilt and Religion

Spiritual Classics: Jung and Eckhart
Carl Jung's Memories, Dreams, Reflections, published in 1961, unleashed a fascination with dreams and myth in the development of religious consciousness. David Tacey relates its importance in his life, and also of the 13th century German mystic, Meister Eckhart.

Paraconsistency: the wilder shores of logic

81 Words: the inside story of psychiatry and homosexuality - Part 1 & Part 2Homosexuality was once labelled a mental disease by psychiatry. But in 1973 the challenge came from within. The American Psychiatric Association had a change of heart. And with the tweak of the 81-word definition of sexual deviance in its own diagnostic manual, lives were reclaimed, and values confronted. Reporter and narrator Alix Spiegel tells the gripping story from the inside, revealing the activities of a closeted group of gay psychiatrists who sowed the seeds of change, amongst them her own grandfather, president-elect of the APA at the time.

Why I write ... George Orwell

Pakistan and the legacy of Partition
Guests include Ayesha Jalal,Professor of history at Tufts University and Akbar Ahmed, Ibn Khaldun chair of Islamic studies at the American University

Schools for the 21st century

Zimbabwe Out of Control

NGO Accountability: Politics, Principles and Innovations

William Ruddiman
Is it possible that the small population of humans on Earth 10,000 years ago managed to affect climate as they started to experiment with farming? Bill Ruddiman is a geologist at the University of Virginia. He is convinced that people not only caused global warming way back, but when their numbers dropped due to plague or genocide, the effect went down markedly. These clues from the past could have dramatic consequences for our debate on climate today

Journey into Islam- Akbar Ahmed

Peanut Allergy/Problems during pregnancy/heart failure and obesity/warfarin

Exploding a few myths about overweight people

Prostate cancer treatment - a personal story

The Great Artesian Basin pipe

The end of slavery
It is two hundred years since the British government prohibited the slave trade. Did science play a part in stopping the trade in people across the Atlantic Ocean?

New Light on the Greek 'Dark Age'
Mycenaean civilization was thought to have disappeared in 1200 BC with the destruction of its citadels. For the last ten years, the Director of the German Archaeological Institute at Athens, Professor Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier, has been excavating in Crete and discovered that religious cult practices continued in the so called Greek 'Dark Age'.

Fear, freedom and politics

Male brain myths