[display_podcast] Chris French is a professor of psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and heads the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit, which he founded in 2000. He is a Chartered Psychologist, Fellow of the British Psychological Society and is also Editor-in-Chief of The Skeptic magazine. http://www.skeptic.org.uk First broadcast on 15th May 2009
May 8, 2009
[display_podcast] Simon Singh is an author, journalist and TV Producer, specializing in science and mathematics. Simon studied physics at Imperial College, London before completing a PhD in particle physics at Cambridge University and at CERN Geneva. In 1990 he joined the BBC’s Science and Features Department, where he was a producer and director working on […]
May 1, 2009
[display_podcast] Philippe Sands QC has been Professor of Law at University College London since 2002 and has also taught at Boston College Law School, Cambridge University and New York University Law School. He is the author of the acclaimed Lawless World: Making and Breaking Global Rules as well as several other books on international law. […]
April 24, 2009
[display_podcast] Professor Noam Chomsky has been described as the world’s greatest public intellectual. Born in 1928 in Philadelphia, Chomsky earned his academic stripes as a young linguistics professor at MIT in the 1950s. His theory of transformational grammar, forged at this time, posits that the capability to form structured language is innate to the human […]
April 17, 2009
[display_podcast] Dr Anthony Daniels is a recently retired doctor and psychiatrist formerly working in a hospital and prison in Birmingham, England. Writing under the pen name Theodore Dalrymple, he is a prolific author of numerous essays and opinion pieces carried in the Wall Street Journal, Cato Institute, The Spectator, Daily Telegraph, New Criterion, City Journal […]
April 3, 2009
[display_podcast] Jonah Lehrer is Editor at Large for Seed Magazine and the author of Proust Was a Neuroscientist. Lehrer graduated from Columbia University and studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. He has written for The New Yorker, Nature, Wired, The Washington Post and The Boston Globe. Jonah is also a Contributing Editor at […]
March 27, 2009
[display_podcast] Neil Denny talks to Richard Wiseman. Richard talks about his new Hauntings project, about parapsychology and the value of studying psychic phenomena, refuses to tell the worlds funniest joke, and finally exclusively reveals the line-up for The Amazing Meeting London. http://www.richardwiseman.com First broadcast on 27th March 2009
March 20, 2009
[display_podcast] Tracey Brown is the Director of the charitable trust Sense About Science which seeks to respond to “the misrepresentation of science and scientific evidence on issues that matter to society”. It promotes the principle of independent peer review and scientific enquiry free from stigma, intimidation and political pressure. http://www.senseaboutscience.org.uk Interview first broadcast on 20th […]
March 13, 2009
[display_podcast] Stephen Law is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Heythrop College, University of London. He is also editor of THINK: Philosophy for Everyone, a journal of the Royal Institute of Philosophy. Stephen has published numerous books on philosophy, including The Philosophy Gym: 25 Short Adventures in Thinking (on which an Oxford University online course has […]
March 6, 2009
[display_podcast] Andrew Copson works for the British Humanist Association on education and public affairs. Andrew coordinates the BHA’s campaigns for a secular state, for an end to religious privilege and discrimination based on religion or belief and for a rational humanist perspective on public ethical issues. He also coordinates the BHA’s education work promoting understanding […]
May 15, 2009
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