How to Win the Culture Wars in an Age of Austerity
Nathalie Olah discusses how this bright generation came to be, and what effective means are still at their disposal to challenge the establi...
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The Ethical Podcast
A landmark charity for London's independent intellectual, political and cultural life. Over 200 years of apostasy, radicalism and rebellion, all under one roof.
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The Irrational Ape
Why flawed logic puts us all at Risk, and How Critical Thinking can save the World. David Robert Grimes shows how we can be lured into makin...
Behind Closed Doors: Sex Education Transformed
One thing we know for certain is that sex is personal: perhaps the most intimate thing of all. But sex is also shaped by a complicated web o...
In praise of walking
The New Science of how we Walk and why it’s Good for us. Walking enabled us to walk out of Africa and to spread as far as Alaska and Austral...
Mudlarking: Lost and Found on the River Thames
Mudlark (/’mAdla;k/) noun A person who scavenges for usable debris in the mud of a river or harbour Lara Maiklem has scoured the banks of th...
Mask Off: Masculinity Redefined
What is masculinity? Dominating the world around us, from Trump’s twitter outbursts to deadly gun violence, from male suicide rates to incel...
Brexit Without the Bull
Will Brexit boost jobs? Or wreck the NHS? Or cause food shortages? From strawberries to passports, the broadcaster and journalist Gavin Esle...
Why Diets Don’t Work – and Other Myths About Food and Health
Pixie Turner will unpack why diet and nutrition misinformation is so problematic, on social media, in mass media, and on a public health lev...
Stop Being Reasonable
What if you aren’t who you think you are? What if you don’t really know the people closest to you? And what if your most deeply-held beliefs...
Thinking on Sunday: The Perils of Partnership in Public Health
Jonathan H. Marks argues that public-private partnerships create “webs of influence” that undermine the integrity of public health agencies...
Lowborn – Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns
Kerry Hudson discusses her book Lowborn with James Bloodworth. Lowborn is a powerful, personal, agenda-changing work of non-fiction on pover...
Experiencing the Impossible: The Science of Magic
What do we see when we watch a magician pull a rabbit out of a hat or read a person’s mind? We are captivated by an illusion; we applaud the...
Thinking on Sunday: Who Owns England?
How we lost our green and pleasant land, and how to take it back. For centuries, England’s elite have covered up how they got their hands on...
The Gendered Brain
The new neuroscience that shatters the myth of the female brain. This is not feminist science – it’s just science. - Prof Gina Rippon.
Ableism
Pause for Thought was a humanist alternative to the BBC Radio 4 programme Thought for the Day, broadcast on BBC World Service from 1997-99....
Enemies
Pause for Thought was a humanist alternative to the BBC Radio 4 programme Thought for the Day, broadcast on BBC World Service from 1997-99....
Facing Death as a Humanist
Pause for Thought was a humanist alternative to the BBC Radio 4 programme Thought for the Day, broadcast on BBC World Service from 1997-99....
Humanism (Part Four)
Pause for Thought was a humanist alternative to the BBC Radio 4 programme Thought for the Day, broadcast on BBC World Service from 1997-99....
Humanism (Part One)
Pause for Thought was a humanist alternative to the BBC Radio 4 programme Thought for the Day, broadcast on BBC World Service from 1997-99....
Humanism (Part Three)
Pause for Thought was a humanist alternative to the BBC Radio 4 programme Thought for the Day, broadcast on BBC World Service from 1997-99....