Art Schools Are Bad At Producing Good Artists
What makes a good artist? Can creativity can be taught? What kind of education ups the ante for success in today’s global culture? These are some of the questions that were explored in this Intellige...
10 Jul 20141h 33min
Jesus Would Have Voted Democrat
Remember the rich man and the eye of the needle? Blessed are the meek? The last shall be first? Jesus didn’t hold much truck for wealth or power, nor was he exactly a supporter of family values. He di...
3 Jul 20141h 43min
Shakespeare vs Milton: The Kings of English Literature Debate
Nearly four centuries after his death, no writer has come close to matching Shakespeare’s understanding of the world – or his gift for dramatic poetry. It’s not just kings and queens that he captured ...
26 Jun 20142h 14min
A Journey Into Outer Space, With Brian Cox
Are they out there? Intelligent beings from another world. Will we ever make contact with them? Is it even sensible to make guesses about whether life exists in other galaxies billions of light years ...
19 Jun 20141h 56min
VS Naipaul in Conversation With Geordie Greig
Nobel laureate and giant of Western letters, Trinidad-born V. S. Naipaul has excelled in both fiction and non-fiction. His latest book The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief is a travelogue ...
12 Jun 20141h 20min
Stop Poking the Bear: The West Needs to Engage with Putin Not Castigate Him
You don’t have to like Vladimir Putin, or doubt that he’s a nasty piece of work, to recognise that the Russian president’s reaction to the crisis in Ukraine is largely justified. The promise that Russ...
5 Jun 201448min
How to Think Like a Freak: Learn How to Make Smarter Decisions with the authors of "Freakonomics"
The books Freakonomics and SuperFreakonomics have been worldwide sensations, selling tens of millions of copies. They have come to stand for challenging conventional wisdom using data rather than emot...
29 Mai 20141h 31min
Look West Not East: South America Will be the 21st Century's Superpower
Conventional wisdom tells us that a new star will rise in the East, and all eyes have been looking towards China or India as the 21st century’s new superpower. But remarkable as their recent economic ...
21 Mai 20141h 41min
