Ideas & Culture Podcasts

Ideas/Issues

  • Alan Watts Pod­cast iTunes Feed Web Site
    • Alan Watts helped inter­pret and pop­u­lar­ize Asian philosophies/religions for West­ern audi­ences. These pod­casts give you access to his archived talks/public lec­tures.
  • Big Ideas iTunes Feed Web Site
    • Big Ideas offers lec­tures on a vari­ety of thought-pro­vok­ing top­ics which range across pol­i­tics, cul­ture, eco­nom­ics, art his­to­ry, sci­ence. The pro­gram is pro­duced by TVO, Canada’s largest edu­ca­tion­al broad­cast­er.
  • Bill Moy­ers Jour­nal iTunes Feed Web Site
    • Vet­er­an jour­nal­ist Bill Moy­ers returns to PBS with Bill Moy­ers Jour­nal, a week­ly pro­gram that takes a deep look at a wide range of sub­jects, includ­ing pol­i­tics, arts and cul­ture, the media, the econ­o­my, and impor­tant issues fac­ing democ­ra­cy.
  • Bri­an Lehrer Show iTunes Feed Web Site
    • A sol­id pub­lic radio broad/podcast with excel­lent inter­views with many impor­tant thinkers. Comes out WNYC in NYC.
  • CBC: The Best of Ideas iTunes Feed Web Site
    • A Cana­di­an pro­gram that explores every­thing from cul­ture and the arts to sci­ence and tech­nol­o­gy.
  • Com­mon Sense with Dan Car­lin iTunesFeedWeb Site
    • A blend of audio com­men­tary and news analy­sis by one of the lead­ing thinkers among today’s polit­i­cal­ly inde­pen­dent crowd. A fis­cal­ly con­ser­v­a­tive, social­ly lib­er­al approach to solv­ing prob­lems.
  • Com­mon­wealth Club Radio Pro­gram iTunes Feed Web Site
    • The old­est radio pro­gram in the coun­try — dat­ing back to 1924 — this week­ly pro­gram fea­tures some of the most promi­nent speak­ers in the coun­try.
  • Coun­cil on For­eign Rela­tions (Video) iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Coun­cil on For­eign Rela­tions (Audio) iTunes Feed Web Site
    • You can get inside this elite body and hear some of what the world’s lead­ing politi­cians and polit­i­cal thinkers have to say.
  • Deutsche Welle
    • Inspired Minds iTunes Feed Web Site
      • A col­lec­tion of por­traits on the world’s great thinkers.
  • Enti­tled Opin­ions (About Life and Lit­er­a­ture) iTunes Feed Web Site
    • Host­ed by Robert Har­ri­son, a Stan­ford pro­fes­sor, this pod­cast is a week­ly lit­er­ary talk show that ranges broad­ly on issues relat­ed to lit­er­a­ture, ideas, and lived expe­ri­ence.
  • FORA.tv Dai­ly FORA­cast
    • Audio: iTunes Feed Web Site
    • Video: iTunes Feed Web Site
      • In French, this pod­cast, led by the well known philoso­pher Alain Finkielkraut, fea­tures a pan­el dis­cus­sion on a dif­fer­ent cul­tur­al top­ic each week.France Cul­ture: RĂ©pliques iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Get Illu­mi­nat­ed iTunes Feed Web Site
    • Boing Boing’s edi­tors inter­view cre­ative peo­ple with­in fringe cul­ture.
  • Guardian Unlim­it­ed
    • Cul­ture on Guardian Unlim­it­ed iTunes Feed
    • Media on Guardian Unlim­it­ed iTunes Feed
  • Forum with Michael Kras­ny iTunes Feed Web Site
    • Com­ing out of San Fran­cis­co, this pub­lic radio broad/podcast fea­tures excel­lent inter­views with major cul­tur­al fig­ures.
  • In Our Time iTunes Feed Web Site
    • On this BBC pro­gram, the best minds explore the big issues that form the intel­lec­tu­al agen­da of our time.
  • Leonard Lopate Show iTunes Feed Web Site
    • Com­ing out of WNYC in New York City, this pub­lic radio pod­cast offers dai­ly inter­views with a diverse col­lec­tion of great thinkers and talk­ers.
  • Morn­ing Sto­ries iTunes Feed Web Site
    • Pre­sent­ed by WGBH in Boston, this pro­gram presents “unfor­get­table sto­ries by every­day peo­ple.”
  • My His­to­ry Can Beat Up Your Pol­i­tics iTunesFeedWeb Site
    • Exact­ly what it sounds like; it puts cur­rent polit­i­cal events in a his­tor­i­cal per­spec­tive and ana­lyzes the his­to­ry to allow us to under­stand our pol­i­tics.
  • New York Pub­lic Library iTunes Web Site
    • An exten­sive col­lec­tion of cul­tur­al media pro­duced by one of the world’s great libraries.
  • NPR: Intel­li­gence Squared iTunes Feed Web Site
    • Intel­li­gence Squared U.S. brings Oxford-style debat­ing to Amer­i­ca– one motion, one mod­er­a­tor, three pan­elists for the motion and three against. Past top­ics have includ­ed reli­gion in Amer­i­ca, Hamas, and Hol­ly­wood.
  • NPR: Fresh Air iTunes Feed Web Site
    • The NPR favorite with Ter­ry Gross.
  • NPR: Kop­pel on the News iTunes Feed Web Site
    • Like Night­line, but bet­ter.
  • NPR Shuf­fle iTunes Feed Web Site
    • A dai­ly sam­pling of dif­fer­ent NPR pro­gram­ming.
  • NPR Talk of the Nation Opin­ion Page iTunes Web Site
  • Open Source iTunes Feed Web Site
    • This dai­ly pro­gram, host­ed by Christo­pher Lydon, uses the inter­net and inter­ac­tive tech­nol­o­gy to talk about the world. One of our favorites.
  • Par­tial­ly Exam­ined Life - iTunes — Feed — Web Site
    • A phi­los­o­phy pod­cast by some guys who were at one point set on doing phi­los­o­phy for a liv­ing but then thought bet­ter of it.
  • PBS Pod­casts iTunes Feeds
    • This gen­er­al col­lec­tion gives you access to all PBS pod­casts.
  • Phi­los­o­phy Bites iTunes Feed Web Site
    • A British pod­cast fea­tur­ing inter­views of top philoso­phers and that delves into some essen­tial philo­soph­i­cal ques­tions — what is the mean­ing of life? what is the nature of real­i­ty? what is evil?, etc.
  • Philoso­phers’ Cafe Feed Web Site
    • Com­fort­able sur­round­ings for vibrant street lev­el dis­cus­sions on burn­ing issues of the day. No for­mal phi­los­o­phy train­ing required; real life expe­ri­ence desired. Come ear­ly, stay late. Pre­sent­ed by Simon Fras­er Uni­ver­si­ty.
  • Pub­lic Radio Pod­cast Cat­a­logue Web Site
    • This web site con­tains links to feeds for over 900 pub­lic radio pro­grams avail­able via pod­cast.
  • ResearchChan­nel iTunes — Web Site
    • Based out of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Wash­ing­ton, the Research Chan­nel aggre­gates con­tent from many uni­ver­si­ties and research insti­tu­tions.
  • Salon.com Con­ver­sa­tions iTunes Feed Web Site
    • Salon has a nice col­lec­tion of audio con­ver­sa­tions with fig­ures from the high­er ech­e­lons of the pop cul­ture world. David Lynch, Pedro Almod­ó­var, Amy Sedaris, the list goes on.
  • SALT — Sem­i­nars About Long Term Think­ing iTunes Feed Web Site
    • An award win­ning month­ly speak­ing series host­ed by Stew­art Brand and orga­nized by the Long Now Foun­da­tion, which hopes to pro­vide a coun­ter­point to today’s “faster/cheaper” mind set and pro­mote “slower/better” think­ing. The pod­casts fea­tures many well known thinkers.
  • Start the Week iTunes Feed Web Site
    • A BBC pro­duc­tion, Start The Week “sets the cul­tur­al agen­da for the week ahead, with high-pro­file guests dis­cussing the ideas behind their work in the fields of art, lit­er­a­ture, film, sci­ence, his­to­ry, soci­ety and pol­i­tics.”
  • TED Talks Video iTunes Feed Web Site
    • Talks from an annu­al con­fer­ence that brings togeth­er major thinkers and doers.
  • The Chron­i­cle of High­er Edu­ca­tion: Inter­views iTunes
  • The Econ­o­mist iTunes Feed Web Site
    • Audio con­tent from one of the high­er qual­i­ty jour­nals out there.
  • The New York Review of Books iTunes Feed Web Site
    • The pod­cast from the biweek­ly book review and jour­nal of intel­lec­tu­al cur­rents.
  • The New York Times Pod­casts (Main) iTunes Web Site (see web site for indi­vid­ual feeds)
    • A fair­ly large col­lec­tion of dai­ly and week­ly pod­casts from the major US dai­ly.
  • The New York Times — TimesTalks iTunes Feed
    • Con­ver­sa­tions with peo­ple of note as well as NYTimes jour­nal­ists and edi­tors.
  • The New York­er: Com­ment (iTunes — Feed)
    • A week­ly read­ing of the magazine’s well-known “Com­ment” essay.
  • The Sound of Young Amer­i­ca iTunes Feed Web Site
    • Inter­views with impor­tant fig­ures in the world of pop cul­ture, arts, lit­er­a­ture and com­e­dy. A high­ly-regard­ed pod­cast.
  • This Amer­i­can Life iTunes Feed Web Site
    • First-per­son sto­ries and short fic­tion from the award-win­ning show host­ed by Ira Glass.
  • To the Best of Our Knowl­edge iTunes Feed Web Site
    • Inter­views with nation­al­ly and inter­na­tion­al­ly-known guests with a pas­sion for ideas.
  • Yes­ter­day is Gone iTunes Feed Web Site
    • “Yes­ter­day Is Gone” is Charles Binder’s per­son­al per­spec­tive about pol­i­tics, art, sci­ence, health, the past, the present, and what will prob­a­bly happen…now that Yes­ter­day Is Gone.

Books & Writ­ing

  • Ama­zon Book Clips iTunes Feed Web Site
    • Lets you keep tabs on best­selling and up-and-com­ing authors.
  • Barnes & Noble: Meet the Writ­ers iTunes Feed Web Site
    • A wide range of writ­ers dis­cuss their favorite books, influ­ences, and the rea­sons they write.
  • C‑Span — After Words iTunes Feed Web Site
    • Inter­views with impor­tant authors of recent­ly pub­lished hard­back non-fic­tion.
  • Gar­ri­son Keil­lor’s The Writer’s Almanac iTunes Feed Web Site
    • Each day Keil­lor reads a short poem or two and recounts what hap­pened on this day in his­to­ry.
  • Gram­mar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips for Bet­ter Writ­ing iTunes Feed Web Site
    • I think the title says it all.
  • Guardian Unlim­it­ed — Books iTunes Feed Web Site
  • NPR Books iTunes Feed Web Site
    • A col­lec­tion of NPR author inter­views and book reviews.
  • NPR Sto­ry of the Day iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Poet­ry Foun­da­tion iTunes Feed Web Site
    • A dai­ly pod­cast fea­tur­ing high-qual­i­ty record­ings of poems, inter­views with poets, and poet­ry doc­u­men­taries.
  • Ran­dom House Pod­cast iTunes Web Site
    • Lets lis­ten­ers check out excerpts from new book releas­es.
  • Shake­speare-upon-iPod iTunes Feed Web Site
    • A series of 9 dis­cus­sions on, and read­ings from, Shake­speare.
  • Simon Says iTunes Feed Web Site
    • A week­ly pod­cast on the books and audio books from Simon & Schus­ter.
  • Slate Audio Book Club iTunes Feed Web Site
    • Crit­ics dis­cuss impor­tant and pop­u­lar books.
  • The New York Times Book Review iTunes Feed Web Site
    • This fledg­ling pod­cast fea­tures the edi­tor of the NYT Book Review speak­ing about new­ly reviewed books.
  • The New York­er: Fic­tion iTunes Feed Web Site
    • Each month, a New York­er fic­tion writer choos­es a sto­ry from the magazine’s archives for a New York­er Out Loud pod­cast.
  • The Poet­ic Voice iTunes Feed Web Site
    • Houghton Mif­flin presents a month­ly poet­ry pod­cast.
  • The Wash­ing­ton Post Book Review iTunes Feed Web Site
  • The Writer’s Block iTunes Feed Web Site
    • Aired on KQED in San Fran­cis­co, this week­ly read­ing series fea­tur­ing writ­ers and per­form­ers of all stripes read­ing the lat­est short fic­tion, non-fic­tion, the­ater and poet­ry.
  • Times Online Book Pod­casts iTunes Feed Web Site
    • Book pod­casts from anoth­er British dai­ly.
  • Word for Word iTunes Feed Web Site
    • Pre­sent­ed by Amer­i­can Pub­lic Media, this pod­cast reviews the best of the nation’s recent speech­es.
  • World Book Club iTunes Feed Web Site
    • World Book Club invites the globe’s great authors to dis­cuss their best known nov­el. This month­ly pro­gramme, pre­sent­ed by Har­ri­ett Gilbert, includes ques­tions by World Ser­vice lis­ten­ers.

Film

  • BBC: Mark Ker­mod­e’s Film Reviews iTunes Feed Web Site
    • From the BBC, this pod­cast takes a no-punch­es-pulled look at UK cin­e­ma.
  • The Treat­ment iTunes Feed Web Site
    • Film crit­ic Elvis Mitchell turns the tables and gives the “treat­ment” to some of the most influ­en­tial and inno­v­a­tive forces cre­at­ing movies and pop­u­lar art and enter­tain­ment.

Muse­ums

  • Art Insti­tute of Chica­go Muse­cast iTunes Feed Web Site
    • Expe­ri­ence the Art Insti­tute of Chicago’s muse­um through the words of artists, cura­tors, musi­cians, and edu­ca­tors.
  • Met­ro­pol­i­tain Muse­um of Art iTunes Feed Web Site
    • A sol­id col­lec­tion of pod­casts from Amer­i­ca’s finest art muse­um. Includes read­ing by well known actors.
  • MoMa iTunes Feed Web Site
    • The Muse­um of Mod­ern Art gives you pod­casts that let you hear artists and cura­tors dis­cuss mod­ern and con­tem­po­rary art.
  • MoMA Think Mod­ern Lec­tures iTunes Feed Web Site
    • Offers record­ings of artists, crit­ics, schol­ars and writ­ers shar­ing their knowl­edge of the muse­um’s art col­lec­tions as well as their views on comtem­po­rary art issues.
  • Nation­al Muse­ums Liv­er­pool Feed Web Site
  • Philadel­phia Muse­um of Art iTunes Web Site
    • The muse­um offers mul­ti­ple pod­casts. They’re all cen­tral­ized in iTunes, or you can find the indi­vid­ual rss feeds on the muse­um web site.
  • SFMOMA iTunes Site
    • A notably strong col­lec­tion of muse­um pod­casts.
  • Smith­son­ian Muse­ums
  • The Nation­al Gallery Pod­cast iTunes Feed Web Site
    • Pod­casts from the Nation­al Gallery art muse­um in Lon­don.

Sundry

  • Car Talk iTunes Feed Web Site
    • An NPR clas­sic.
  • The New York­er Car­toons iTunes Feed.
    • Catch ani­mat­ed ver­sions of The New York­er’s famous car­toons.

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  • […] For more pod­casts along these lines, check out our Music Pod­cast Col­lec­tion as well as our Arts & Cul­ture Pod­cast Col­lec­tion. […]

  • Neil Wanstall says:

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  • […] You can find the pod­casts men­tioned above, and oth­ers like them, in our Arts & Cul­ture Pod­cast Col­lec­tion. […]

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  • […] For more pod­casts along these lines, see our Arts & Cul­ture pod­cast col­lec­tion. […]

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  • […] UC Berke­ley “Dis­cov­er Cal.” (And many new peo­ple are.) Yet, with the rapid­ly grow­ing flood of audio and visu­al ideas, action, news and “facts” it has nev­er been more vital for all […]

  • WOW! Thanks so much for this ser­vice. You did all my research for me, and put it all in one amaz­ing­ly help­ful place! Going to be com­ing back here a lot!!!
    Mat­ty

  • […] sem­i­nars as a pod­cast (iTunes — Feed — Web Site) and oth­er­wise find it host­ed in our Ideas & Cul­ture Pod­cast Col­lec­tion. Have a good […]

  • I know what I’ll be lis­ten­ing to on my com­mutes to job­sites. Thank you!

  • Thanks for the help with find­ing things as far as pod­casts are con­cerned! Just have to dig around your site now to find out some healthy eat­ing and cook­ing shows!

  • Matty Byloos says:

    Just came back here again and found more great stuff! Was so hap­py to find all the Alan Watts mate­r­i­al!

  • Ron Ferple says:

    great pate, but I hate iTunes.

  • Wow. I am total­ly psy­ched to find this site. Awe­some.

  • […] You get the drift. This is a show that takes ideas, lit­er­a­ture, and life seri­ous­ly. It’s heady, and it doesn’t dumb things down. If you’re a faith­ful read­er of Open Cul­ture, you’ll find some­thing here for you. If you take a spin through the archives, you’ll find Har­ri­son in con­ver­sa­tion with Orhan Pamuk (the Nobel Prize win­ning nov­el­ist) and Richard Rorty (one of America’s most impor­tant con­tem­po­rary philoso­phers). You’ll also find him talk­ing with schol­ars about  Vladamir Nabokov and his Loli­ta, World War II and the Ger­man bomb­ing of Lon­don, the His­to­ry of Psy­chi­a­try, and The His­tor­i­cal Jesus. Each pro­gram starts with a 10 minute (or so) mono­logue, and then Har­ri­son gets down to talk­ing with his guest for anoth­er 50. Give a lis­ten. Let us know your thoughts. And know that Enti­tled Opin­ions (iTunes Feed Web Site) is includ­ed in our Ideas & Cul­ture Pod­cast Col­lec­tion. […]

  • Donald Raiche says:

    great show.….

  • Talaleu Gogo says:

    Please I do real­ly need a hints of top­ic cul­ture for explo­ration with­in that sub­ject area?

  • […] Phi­los­o­phy doesn’t have to be daunt­ing. Thanks to the Con­tin­u­ing Edu­ca­tion pro­gram at Oxford Uni­ver­si­ty, you can ease into philo­soph­i­cal think­ing by lis­ten­ing to five lec­tures col­lec­tive­ly called Phi­los­o­phy for Begin­ners. (Find them on iTune­sU in audio and video). Taught by Mar­i­anne Tal­bot, Lec­ture 1 starts with a “Romp Through the His­to­ry of Phi­los­o­phy” and moves in a brief hour from Ancient Greece to the present. Sub­se­quent lec­tures (usu­al­ly run­ning about 90 min­utes) cov­er the fol­low­ing top­ics: log­ic, ethics, pol­i­tics, meta­physics, epis­te­mol­o­gy, and lan­guage. For those han­ker­ing for more phi­los­o­phy, I’ve list­ed below a series of more advanced phi­los­o­phy cours­es and also some phi­los­o­phy pod­casts. (You can get more free uni­ver­si­ty cours­es here and intel­li­gent pod­casts here). […]

  • […] Post­ed in Dai­ly life, Edu­ca­tion at 2:24 pm by LeisureGuy  Dan Cole­man blogs: Phi­los­o­phy doesn’t have to be daunt­ing. Thanks to the Con­tin­u­ing Edu­ca­tion pro­gram at Oxford Uni­ver­si­ty, you can ease into philo­soph­i­cal think­ing by lis­ten­ing to five lec­tures col­lec­tive­ly called Phi­los­o­phy for Begin­ners. (Find them on iTune­sU in audio and video). Taught by Mar­i­anne Tal­bot, Lec­ture 1 starts with a “Romp Through the His­to­ry of Phi­los­o­phy” and moves in a brief hour from Ancient Greece to the present. Sub­se­quent lec­tures (usu­al­ly run­ning about 90 min­utes) cov­er the fol­low­ing top­ics: log­ic, ethics, pol­i­tics, meta­physics, epis­te­mol­o­gy, and lan­guage. For those han­ker­ing for more phi­los­o­phy, I’ve list­ed below a series of more advanced phi­los­o­phy cours­es and also some phi­los­o­phy pod­casts. (You can get more free uni­ver­si­ty cours­es here and intel­li­gent pod­casts here). […]

  • […] Phi­los­o­phy doesn’t have to be daunt­ing. Thanks to the Con­tin­u­ing Edu­ca­tion pro­gram at Oxford Uni­ver­si­ty, you can ease into philo­soph­i­cal think­ing by lis­ten­ing to five lec­tures col­lec­tive­ly called Phi­los­o­phy for Begin­ners. (Find them on iTune­sU in audio and video). Taught by Mar­i­anne Tal­bot, Lec­ture 1 starts with a “Romp Through the His­to­ry of Phi­los­o­phy” and moves in a brief hour from Ancient Greece to the present. Sub­se­quent lec­tures (usu­al­ly run­ning about 90 min­utes) cov­er the fol­low­ing top­ics: log­ic, ethics, pol­i­tics, meta­physics, epis­te­mol­o­gy, and lan­guage. For those han­ker­ing for more phi­los­o­phy, I’ve list­ed below a series of more advanced phi­los­o­phy cours­es and also some phi­los­o­phy pod­casts. (You can get more free uni­ver­si­ty cours­es here and intel­li­gent pod­casts here). […]

  • […] Feed. In the mean­time, we’ve added the New York Review of Books pod­cast to our col­lec­tion of Ideas & Cul­ture Pod­casts, which can also be accessed through our Free iPhone […]

  • […] (You can get The Long Now pod­cast here: iTunes – Feed — Web Site.  It’s also in our Ideas & Cul­ture Audio Col­lec­tion.) Brand is good at look­ing thought­ful­ly into the future, and above he takes a long-range view on […]

  • […] a quick post­script, these pod­casts can be found in our Ideas & Cul­ture Pod­cast Col­lec­tion. […]

  • […] As a quick post­script, these pod­casts can be found in our Ideas & Cul­ture Pod­cast Col­lec­tion. […]

  • […] Ideas & Cul­ture Programs/Podcasts:  In this one col­lec­tion, we have gath­ered togeth­er some of the most intel­lec­tu­al­ly stim­u­lat­ing pro­grams avail­able via pod­cast. The pro­grams will keep you think­ing and cul­tur­al­ly up-to-date, as will our col­lec­tion of sci­ence pod­casts. All can be down­loaded straight to your mp3 play­er. […]

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  • aprima says:

    Many thanks for this great col­lec­tion of inter­est­ng links and pod­casts!
    Just one remark: the URL to the music pod­casts does not work (jan 25th)

    thanks.
    apri­ma

  • VirginiaJim says:

    This Week in Virol­o­gy should be on the list as the only ongo­ing dis­cus­sion about this rapid­ly devel­op­ing field.

  • […] on a BBC pod­cast called In Our Time (iTunes – Feed — Web Site). It’s list­ed in our Ideas & Cul­ture Pod­cast Col­lec­tion, along with many oth­er thought­ful pro­grams that make mean­ing­ful sub­jects rel­e­vant to a broad­er, […]

  • John Naruwan says:

    A great list, thanks! Here are some oth­er great pod­casts about his­to­ry, soci­ety, and so on, for the Ideas/Issues sec­tion.

    RN Shuf­fle — ABC (Aus.)
    http://www.abc.net.au/rn/rnshuffle/
    A dis­cus­sion on ideas in sci­ence, pol­i­tics, health, design and film, human behav­iour, reli­gion, etc.

    Think­ing Allowed — BBC Radio 4
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/thinkingallowed/
    Thought-pro­vok­ing dis­cus­sion on lat­est social sci­ence research.

    Rear Vision — ABC (Aus.)
    http://www.abc.net.au/rn/rearvision/
    Issues in soci­ety dis­cussed from a his­tor­i­cal per­spec­tive.

    The Forum — a world of ideas — BBC World Ser­vice
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/2009/03/000000_forum.shtml
    Three inno­v­a­tive thinkers from dif­fer­ent cul­tures and per­spec­tives put for­ward new ideas.

    The Philoso­pher’s Zone — ABC (Aus.)
    http://www.abc.net.au/rn/philosopherszone/
    Phi­los­o­phy!

    Ock­ham’s Razor — ABC (Aus.)
    http://www.abc.net.au/rn/ockhamsrazor/
    Sci­ence and Soci­ety

  • […] Ideas & Cul­ture Pro­grams: In this one col­lec­tion, we have gath­ered some of the most intel­lec­tu­al­ly stim­u­lat­ing pro­grams, cov­er­ing the worlds of thought, film, music, books, etc. These pro­grams will keep you think­ing and cul­tur­al­ly up-to-date. Most of the pro­grams fea­ture new dai­ly episodes. […]

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  • Culture says:

    Excel­lent list of cul­tur­al resources!

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