In Bed With Phillip

[The Magic Pudding]

Sorry nothing salacious here, just a late night radio show making available an assortment of programs from their twenty year history.  This is only part of it.

Studs Terkel talks about McCarthyism, the civil rights movement, unionism, the 1929 stock market crash, and the ways in which society is quickly changing.

The amazing story of the making of the Oxford English Dictionary involving the linguist James Murray and Dr WC Minor, a surgeon in the Civil War in America.

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev speaks about Green Cross International, the organisation he founded in 1993.

Clarence B Jones, Martin Luther King Jr's counsel and speechwriter recounts the road to the 1963 march on Washington which immortalised Martin Luther King Jr and his 'I Have a Dream' speech.

Madeleine Albright talks about her remarkable career, the hard physicality of being a high level diplomat, her doubts over the US involvement in Iraq, and whether the US under Clinton was responsible for 9/11.

The story of William Smith, the man who changed the world through his discovery of geological strata and triumphed over subsequent bad luck.

Panel discussion of the legacy of Margaret Thatcher, on the publication of her autobiography.

Henry Kissinger speaks about his experiences and skills as a high-level diplomat and as US National Security Adviser and Secretary of State between 1969 and 1975

Belgium's colonisation of Africa was marked by the murderous reign of King Leopold from the 1860s to the turn of the century.

How could a backwoods country like America, with only three million people, have produced three great geniuses of the 18th century: Franklin, Jefferson and Hamilton?

JK Galbraith compares the policies of five past American presidents, from Roosevelt to Johnson.

Sinn Fein president and Republican warhorse Gerry Adams talks about his life in the midst of politics and violence.

The plays of Shakespeare were Professor Anwar Ibrahim's solace and companion during his years of solitary confinement, and they continue to inspire his advocacy of a moderate and progressive Islam.

Dr Anita Guerrini is from UCLA and the author of Obesity and Depression in the Enlightenment: the Life and Times of George Cheyne.

A look at the history of the powered vibrator as used by doctors to treat female patients with symptoms of hysteria.

All about elevators: their history, design, symbolism and psychology.

Marine scientist Anthony Richardson explains why jellyfish pose a serious threat to human health.

Deborah Blum tells the story of how modern forensic medicine emerged during the era of prohibition in the United States.

Jared Diamond talks about our resistance to changing technologies, with the Qwerty keyboard being one of the silliest traditions.

One of Israel's most respected writers, Amos Oz, on his country and the region.

Alvin Tofler on anti-war - How will nation states begin to change and reshape themselves into the future?

Robert Fisk - What happens to international laws and moral codes when faced with terrorism and modern warfare?

The personal and global legacies of inaction in the Rwandan genocide.

An investigation of the relationship between the practice of 'nation building' by western governments and democracy, as practised by the ancient Greeks.

A lively discussion featuring the late David Lange, former PM of NZ , on the wave of voter dissatisfaction and disaffection sweeping the western world.

Respected journalist Christopher Hitchens describes his experience of waterboarding.

British intellectual Tariq Ali talks about Islam, the west and Edward Said.

Child and adolescent psychiatrist Lynne Jones, in studying the effects of war on children, has some surprisingly positive news.

An exploration of how we have made the experience of death and grief more and more private in the west.

A light-hearted yet serious look at the obsession with death of a great number of philosophers.

What are the strongest arguments both for and against euthanasia?

Sex and the Origins of Death - A look at death from the cellular perspective.

Science writer and commentator Margaret Wertheim gives one of the first critiques of the cyber future.

Mathematician Charles Seife argues that zero has the power to destroy logic, and even does the calculations to illustrate that Winston Churchill—or anybody—could have been a carrot.

Brian Schmidt explains the differences between Dark Energy and Dark Matter—two mysterious forces battling for domination of our universe.

Ted Steele argues that Darwin's and Lamarck's theories can coexist, and asks if we are capable of conscious evolution simply by thinking about it.

Given the Islamic world was once the unrivalled centre of science and philosophy, what has led to its scientific and technological malaise?

Professors Paul Davies and Graham Cairns-Smith discuss Cairns-Smith's book Secrets of the Mind: A Tale of Discovery and Mistaken Identity

Colin Tudge explores the extent of biodiversity on our planet and argues for greater emphasis on taxonomy.

Oliver Sacks argues that music ought to be part of the doctor's diagnostic repertoire.

Dr Andrew Newburg has mapped the brains of Franciscan nuns and Tibetan Buddhists with imaging technology and discovered that meditation and prayer keeps the parietal and frontal lobes very busy.

Bryan Appleyard explores the promise and the danger of genetic manipulation by forging a link between a scientific juggernaut and its moral and ethical implications.

Two of the world's best known comedians, Eric Idle and Michael Palin, discuss their craft.

Sir George Martin talks about his own impressive career with comics such as the Goons, and of course his relationship with the Beatles.

One woman's dedication to preserving the culture and living history of Afghanistan.

A discussion with the independent scientist James Lovelock, originator of the Gaia Theory, on the urgency of the global warming threat.

Paleogeologist Chris Turney believes that to understand the implications of climate change now, we must decipher the dramatic shifts of the past and learn from them.

The author of The Population Bomb says the earth has a finite carrying capacity and it cannot sustain the current rate of human population growth and resource depletion.

NASA climate scientist James Hansen talks about his belief that scientists need to address current public doubt about global warming.

By 2050, human beings will be using, if they can still be found, nearly two planets' worth of resources, says Tim Flannery.

Harold Bloom discusses his book Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. Bloom talks about his life and his love of Shakespeare.

Well known political journalist Geraldine Brooks's talks about her book Year of Wonders, about the great plague of 1666.

Arthur Miller is interviewed at 85, talking about his early life and the reaction to his early writings, including the critical response to his most famous plays.

Hunter S. Thompson's biographer confirms he was as weird as we thought, but confessed she had to understate his drug-taking for fear of not being believed.

Kurt Vonnegut speaks about his experience with depression and how he came to have such a low estimation of humanity.

Arundhati Roy explains the complex background to her Booker prize-winning book The God of Small Things

A conversation with Sir Arthur C. Clarke, one of the most prolific and acclaimed science and science-fiction writers.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali's arguments that Islam is misogynistic and repressive have earned her many enemies.

One of the most incredible accounts of making the transition from losing one's eyesight to living life in a profoundly different way.

Does deafness really require medical intervention? A controversial viewpoint.

Is depression an epidemic, or are once-normal symptoms such as sadness being misdiagnosed?

Religious fundamentalism has been on the rise for 500 years now, so are continued clashes between religions inevitable?

Is celibacy within the Catholic Church a major cause of the abuse of minors by clergy?

A conversation with Christopher Hitchens about the apparent atheist backlash to the rise in religious fundamentalism.

Wisdom and philosophy—are both really necessary to make a person humane?

How much freedom do women and feminist writers have within the Muslim world?

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Great resource there, Magic Pudding!  Thanks for posting; I'll bookmark the site for future reference.