Understanding animal consciousness
In his new book, Metazoa, Australia’s ‘scuba-diving philosopher’ Peter Godfrey-Smith explores the evolution of animal consciousness through the inner ...
Late Night Live - Separate stories podcast
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LNL stories separated out for listening. From razor-sharp analysis of current events to the hottest debates in politics, science, philosophy and culture, Late Night Live puts you firmly in the big picture.
Rebel cricketers and the price they paid
Ashley Gray tells the untold story of the rebel West Indian cricketers who toured apartheid South Africa.
Simon Winchester on the history of land ownership
The best-selling author of The Professor and the Madman explores the rich and complex history of our relationship with the planet's 37 billion acres o...
What do women artists and their self-portraits tell us?
The self portrait is an obvious subject for women artists through history who have had to fight for access to studios, resources, time and recognition...
Isabel Allende: a feminist life
In her memoir The Soul of A Woman, the best-selling Chilean author Isabel Allende explores how feminism has shaped her life over the past seven decade...
2021 Year in review - the funny, the serious and the downright ugly
Join our cheery panel as they find reasons to laugh about some of the darkest parts of the year that was, and reflect on what defined 2021, and which ...
David Williamson: A life reflected on stage and screen
David Williamson has retired from writing plays and screenplays and instead has written a memoir of his life. He talks honestly about how so many of t...
Ian Dunt's UK
In his final commentary for 2021 Ian Dunt discusses an event at Number 10 last Christmas that this week is front page news across the UK, and new laws...
A brief history of the book index
Most of us give little thought to the back of a book - it's just where you go to look things up. But a new book reveals that the index has a curious h...
The race for the vaccine
Covid-19 has torn through the world for the past two years, leaving a global death anywhere between 10 and 19 million people. How did we get the vacci...