Charles Jencks
Landscape architect Charles Jencks calls for a new cosmic art, in a talk entitled Reclaiming the Universe. Jencks argues that understanding the universe is too important to be left to scientists and t...
25 Marras 201144min
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
Neuro-scientist Sarah-Jayne Blakemore gives a talk on changes in the teenage brain. Teenagers often act on impulse, are lazy, emotional and get into trouble with the police and parents. Sarah-Jayne Bl...
24 Marras 201144min
Susie Orbach
Psychotherapist Susie Orbach challenges the obsession with personal change. Susie is Britain's most high-profile pyschotherapist, whose book Fat is a Feminist Issue revolutionised the way we understan...
22 Marras 201145min
The impact of a future energy crisis on our way of life
How will our world change as traditional energy supplies shrink and climate change forces us to use less fossil fuels? Should we return to a locally-focused pre-modern lifestyle where travel is a luxu...
18 Marras 201144min
Aditya Chakrabortty
Economist Aditya Chakrabortty examines the impact of economic change on society. Over the past 30 years governments of every political hue have promised that great prizes will follow economic change, ...
18 Marras 201144min
Can We Stop the Mania for Change?
Philip Dodd chairs a debate on the obsession with change, at the BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival 2011. Panel includes the film-maker Molly Dineen and the Rev Dr Giles Fraser.
17 Marras 201144min
Julian Savulescu - The Moral Obligation to Improve
Julian Savulescu, Oxford Professor of Ethics, makes the case for human enhancement and genetic selection at the BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival 2011.
16 Marras 201144min
Linda Colley
Leading historian Linda Colley gives a talk on how we have dealt with periods of dramatic change in the past and how history can help us to understand change today.
14 Marras 201143min
