Podcasts & Videos – Page 37

Night Waves

May 27, 2013 Julian Baggini Asides, Radio and TV

NIGHT WAVES, BBC RADIO 3. Read a 5-minute essay on the inconceivable on the May 20 programme, which you can listen[…]

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Newshour

March 31, 2013 Julian Baggini Asides, Radio and TV

NEWSHOUR – BBC WORLD SERVICE. I was on tonight’s programme talking about humility with John Haldane, Harriet Lerner and presenter[…]

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Closer to Truth

March 18, 2013 Julian Baggini Asides, Videos

VIDEO INTERVIEW CLIPS. I was filmed a while ago for a US TV show called “Closer to Truth”. Several clips[…]

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Today

March 12, 2013 Julian Baggini Asides, Radio and TV

TODAY – BBC RADIO FOUR. I was on Friday’s programme (8 March) talking about revenge with Natalie Haynes. You can[…]

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Bibliocide

March 12, 2013 Julian Baggini Articles & Essays, Videos

No civilised person is supposed to make bonfires of books. ‘Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings,’ wrote the German poet Heinrich Heine in the century before Nazism. Burning books is a sacrilegious act, and the taboo against it particularly binds writers. So what was I doing in a Somerset field lighting a match under the 32 volumes of the Encyclopædia Britannica?

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