The Rhetoric of 'The Roman Revolution'

1:06:42

Read by Christopher Pelling

Pakistan is a viable and not a failed state if...?

54:57

Read by Mehmood Khan Achakzai

The First Fall of the Roman Empire

1:06:00

Read by walter scheidel

Who buried the bodies?

43:50

Read by Kamila Shamsie

Janus: At the mirror wall

40:26

Read by romesh gunesekera

DNA USA: a genetic portrait of America

1:06:34

Read by Bryan Sykes

From Memory: Isaiah Berlin, Literary Encounters and Life-Stories

50:17

Read by Hermione Lee

In conversation with Steven Pinker

17:55

Read by Steven Pinker, Charumati Raghavan, Mengyin Jiang, Florence Enock and Raluca David

The better angels of our nature: A history of violence and humanity

1:00:58

Read by Steven Pinker

Living in a Quantum World

52:12

Read by Vlatko Vedral

Making Science Work

1:02:18

Read by Paul Nurse

"Bright Metal on a Sullen Ground": The idea of true character in English writing…

1:05:47

Read by Stella Tillyard

The real Jane Austen: A life in small things

37:08

Read by Paula Byrne

Man with a blue scarf: On sitting for a portrait by Lucian Freud

57:24

Read by Martin Gayford

Hidden Worlds: Art within Science

1:03:56

Read by Katalin Hausel, Mirja Koponen, Lizzie Burns, Paul Matthews, Angela Palmer and Henrietta Bowden-Jones

Freud's Impossible Life

48:14

Read by Adam Phillips

'Containing multitudes': writing about Pevsner

51:38

Read by Susie harries

The Sun King and his Court: from Rome to Versailles and back

1:04:09

Read by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill

Climate change and two concepts of liberty

38:14

Read by Myles Allen

Climate change: making the best use of scientific information

54:06

Read by Thomas Stocker

Why is climate change so difficult to understand?

58:47

Read by Carl Wunsch

The public and private ethics of climate change

55:56

Read by John Broome

Scholarship Opportunities at Wolfson

3:02

Read by Andrew Neil, Nicholas West and Bonnie Lander

"Oh, you liar, you storyteller": On Fibbing, Fact and Fabulation

57:10

Read by Michèle Roberts

The closest exit may be behind you

1:00:05

Read by Hisham Matar

Trying to do more good than harm in health care

1:02:16

Read by Iain Chalmers

Where may truth lie? Fiction in memory, memory in fiction

43:48

Read by Candia McWilliam

What can I say? Secrets in fiction and biography

1:03:21

Read by Alan Hollinghurst and Hermione Lee

The Work of Music: Music and Mathematics

1:03:38

Read by Timothy Gowers

The Work of Music: Music and Psychology

53:00

Read by Eric Clarke

All About His Mother: Reading Proust's Letters

52:39

Read by Michael Wood

Sir Anthony Caro in conversation with Tim Marlow

1:04:33

Read by Sir Anthony Caro and Tim Marlow

The contact zone: the creation of a Roman literature

51:11

Read by Denis Feeney

CLAROS - A virtual Greek and Roman Art collection

48:56

Read by Donna Kurtz and Sebastian Rahtz

Applied Logic

50:48

Read by Sir Tony Hoare

Empire, Empires, and the End of Antiquity

53:28

Read by Dame Averil Cameron

War and Civilization Series Lecture 4: War and Liberation

36:32

Read by Ian Buruma

War and Civilization Series Lecture 3: War and Pity

52:55

Read by Marina Warner

War and Civilization Series Lecture 2: War and Poetry

1:07:03

Read by Geoffrey Hill

War and Civilization Series Lecture 1: War and Finance

50:43

Read by Niall Ferguson

Acrylic Variations 5-8

18:58

Read by Mark Rowan-Hull, Neil Heyde and Christopher Regate

Acrylic Variations 1-4

18:03

Read by Mark Rowan-Hull, Neil Heyde and Christopher Regate

Correspondence: Performance, Visual Art and the Senses

25:17

Read by Mark Rowan-Hull

The East Side story: How executive uncertainty created an accession conditionali…

31:34

Read by Cristina Parau

The long hard road to democracy and social justice

31:02

Read by Tony Benn

fascinating, absorbing series of talks

Clara COOGAN

(5 Sterne)

variety of talks, treating some complex aspects of the humanities from wide range of perspectives. Mostly academic, some humorous, all informative and absolutely NO use for sending a tired body to sleep - brain stirring stuff although some readers better than others