Radio
In 2011 he presented a series of talks for the BBC Radio 4 series A Point of View.
- What Humanities Should Teach: Arguing teachers of humanities in universities have only themselves to blame for cuts in funding.
- News and Concentration: Examining our inability to concentrate.
- The Ecological Sublime: A philosopher's take on ecological dilemmas.
- Are Museums Our New Churches?: Argues that museums could learn from churches with regard to getting their message across.
- In Praise of the Nanny State: Asks why the idea of a Nanny State is so unappealing.
- On Marriage: Muses on why a bookish life is a poor preparation for marriage.
- In Praise of the Zoo: Muses on the value of exotic animals in giving perspective on our own lives.
- The Art of Conversation: Questions why we put so much effort into social encounters but leave conversation to chance.
- What's in a Marriage?: Argues that expecting one person to be a good partner, lover and parent is, almost, asking the impossible.
- On Social Climbing: Argues that social climbing should be seen as evidence of a natural curiosity about the modern world.
- Modern Parenting: Takes a witty look at modern parenting.
- The Advantages of Pessimism: Why pessimism is the key to happiness.
- A Point of View: podcast
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Famous quotes containing the word radio:
“A bibulation of sports writers, a yammer of radio announcers, a guilt of umpires, an indigence of writers.”
—Walter Wellesley (Red)
“Now they can do the radio in so many languages that nobody any longer dreams of a single language, and there should not any longer be dreams of conquest because the globe is all one, anybody can hear everything and everybody can hear the same thing, so what is the use of conquering.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“from above, thin squeaks of radio static,
The captured fume of space foams in our ears—”
—Hart Crane (1899–1932)