Like many, I've discovered that my regular exercise regimen is much more interesting and productive when I combine it with podcast listening. Here are some podcasts from international and public radio sources that I've personally found particularly interesting and edifying. Perhaps you might as well.
In addition to via the websites referenced, these podcasts generally are made available through several other popular internet sources such as iTunes and TuneIn. IDEAS - CBC Radio One After Atheism: New Perspectives on God and Religion, Part 1 Religion, in recent years, has been something of a battlefield.On the one hand books with titles like God is Back or, more alarming, The Revenge of God have dramatized the increased influence of fundamentalist forms of religion. On the other, the writers sometimes called "the new atheists" have railed against religion in a spirit that some have called secular fundamentalism. British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkinsleads the way here with his claim that religion is a brain disease, but others like the late Christopher Hitchins have also contributed to this revival of the old opposition between religion and enlightenment. Richard Kearney would like to get past all this. To him it's a sterile polarization. He'd like to move on to a conversation in which doubt and faith, in his words, "criss-cross." Richard Kearney is a poet, a novelist, and a philosopher who writes about the role of imagination in religious belief. He's professor of philosophy at Boston College, and a visiting professor at University College Dublin in his native Ireland. (55') http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/episodes/2014/06/30/after-atheism-new-perspectives-on-god-and-religion-part-1-1/ THE PHILOSOPHERS' ZONE - ABC Radio National The Emotional Lives of Animals Do animals actually feel things as we do? This question has been the source of much philosophical debate, and the history of western philosophy has had various answers: from Pythagoras, the first animal-friendly philosopher, to Descartes—who had his doubts that non-humans felt anything at all. Now the scientific data is pushing the debate, and opening up new ethical concerns. If animals suffer then don’t we owe them more than we’ve been prepared to give? (25') http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszone/the-emotional-lives-of-animals/5547048 FUTURE TENSE - ABC Radio National Perspectives on the Power of Provocation The provocation has long been a tool of intellectual discussion - a way of forcing people to question their existing beliefs and find new ways forward. To truly provoke, of course, relies on one’s ability to shock. It also relies on the propensity of those you’re trying to provoke to find the subject of your provocation truly provocative. No small task in the current media environment, where post-modernism, rampant commercialism and the 24-hour media cycle have emptied the cupboard of society’s norms, niceties and taboos. In this show we hear a variety of perspectives on the power of the modern provocation. Among our guests – a poet, a professor, a PR practitioner and a philosopher. (29') http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/june-29th-segment/5548814 ----------------------------- John Figliozzi The Worldwide Listening Guide - 6th edition now available through Amazon.com, W5YI.com and universal-radio.com wwlgonline.com _______________________________________________ Internetradio mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/internetradio To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above.
