Conway Hall: Where Ethics Matter
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How to Win the Culture Wars in an Age of Austerity
Nathalie Olah discusses how this bright generation came to be, and what effective means are still at their disposal to challenge the establishment and...
The Irrational Ape
Why flawed logic puts us all at Risk, and How Critical Thinking can save the World.
David Robert Grimes shows how we can be lured into making cr...
Behind Closed Doors: Sex Education Transformed
One thing we know for certain is that sex is personal: perhaps the most intimate thing of all. But sex is also shaped by a complicated web of cultural...
In praise of walking
The New Science of how we Walk and why it’s Good for us.
Walking enabled us to walk out of Africa and to spread as far as Alaska and Australia....
Mudlarking: Lost and Found on the River Thames
Mudlark (/’mAdla;k/) noun A person who scavenges for usable debris in the mud of a river or harbour
Lara Maiklem has scoured the banks of...
Mask Off: Masculinity Redefined
What is masculinity? Dominating the world around us, from Trump’s twitter outbursts to deadly gun violence, from male suicide rates to incels on Reddi...
Brexit Without the Bull
Will Brexit boost jobs? Or wreck the NHS? Or cause food shortages? From strawberries to passports, the broadcaster and journalist Gavin Esler sets out...
Why Diets Don’t Work – and Other Myths About Food and Health
Pixie Turner will unpack why diet and nutrition misinformation is so problematic, on social media, in mass media, and on a public health level, and wh...
Stop Being Reasonable
What if you aren’t who you think you are?
What if you don’t really know the people closest to you?
And what if your most dee...
Thinking on Sunday: The Perils of Partnership in Public Health
Jonathan H. Marks argues that public-private partnerships create “webs of influence” that undermine the integrity of public health agencies and distor...
Lowborn – Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns
Kerry Hudson discusses her book Lowborn with James Bloodworth. Lowborn is a powerful, personal, agenda-changing work of non-fiction on poverty in Brit...
Experiencing the Impossible: The Science of Magic
What do we see when we watch a magician pull a rabbit out of a hat or read a person’s mind? We are captivated by an illusion; we applaud the fact that...
Thinking on Sunday: Who Owns England?
How we lost our green and pleasant land, and how to take it back.
For centuries, England’s elite have covered up how they got their hands...
The Gendered Brain
The new neuroscience that shatters the myth of the female brain. This is not feminist science – it’s just science. - Prof Gina Rippon.
Ableism
Pause for Thought was a humanist alternative to the BBC Radio 4 programme Thought for the Day, broadcast on BBC World Service from 1997-99.
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Enemies
Pause for Thought was a humanist alternative to the BBC Radio 4 programme Thought for the Day, broadcast on BBC World Service from 1997-99.
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Facing Death as a Humanist
Pause for Thought was a humanist alternative to the BBC Radio 4 programme Thought for the Day, broadcast on BBC World Service from 1997-99.
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Humanism (Part Four)
Pause for Thought was a humanist alternative to the BBC Radio 4 programme Thought for the Day, broadcast on BBC World Service from 1997-99.
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Humanism (Part One)
Pause for Thought was a humanist alternative to the BBC Radio 4 programme Thought for the Day, broadcast on BBC World Service from 1997-99.
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Humanism (Part Three)
Pause for Thought was a humanist alternative to the BBC Radio 4 programme Thought for the Day, broadcast on BBC World Service from 1997-99.
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Humanism (Part Two)
Pause for Thought was a humanist alternative to the BBC Radio 4 programme Thought for the Day, broadcast on BBC World Service from 1997-99.
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Labels
Pause for Thought was a humanist alternative to the BBC Radio 4 programme Thought for the Day, broadcast on BBC World Service from 1997-99.
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Humanist Education
Pause for Thought was a humanist alternative to the BBC Radio 4 programme Thought for the Day, broadcast on BBC World Service from 1997-99.
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Truth
Pause for Thought was a humanist alternative to the BBC Radio 4 programme Thought for the Day, broadcast on BBC World Service from 1997-99.
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The New Millenium
Pause for Thought was a humanist alternative to the BBC Radio 4 programme Thought for the Day, broadcast on BBC World Service from 1997-99.
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Children
Pause for Thought was a humanist alternative to the BBC Radio 4 programme Thought for the Day, broadcast on BBC World Service from 1997-99.
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Yellow
Pause for Thought was a humanist alternative to the BBC Radio 4 programme Thought for the Day, broadcast on BBC World Service from 1997-99.
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Tolerance
Pause for Thought was a humanist alternative to the BBC Radio 4 programme Thought for the Day, broadcast on BBC World Service from 1997-99.
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Encouragement
Pause for Thought was a humanist alternative to the BBC Radio 4 programme Thought for the Day, broadcast on BBC World Service from 1997-99.
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In the dead of the night, when all people were sleeping: Ghosts in folk songs
Traditional songs are full of folklore about ghosts. They tell you why people become ghosts, what ghosts look like, what the living must do to allow t...
Malkin: The Pendle witches
Camille Ralphs will recite the entirety of acclaimed poetry pamphlet Malkin, ‘an ellegy in 14 spels’ in the voices of those accused in the 1612 Pendle...
‘I Shall Goe Unto a Hare’ – Isobel Gowdie, Covens, Shamans and Familiar Spirits.
The four confessions given by Isobel Gowdie to a Scottish court, in May 1662, are seminal witchcraft texts; bringing folk belief in the faerie, the wo...
The Haunted Landscapes of World War One – Professor Owen Davies
Whether one believes in ghosts or not, it is an easy assumption that sightings of ghosts must have been common on the First World War battlefields con...
The Walking Dead – Dr. Carolyne Larrington
The dead don’t always stay peacefully in their graves. British folklore and chronicle relates from very early times instances of vampire-like and unde...
The Appearance of Ghosts: shrouds, sheets or see-through? Dr. Susan Owens
The idea that the dead can return to haunt the living is deeply rooted in the British imagination, and ghosts are central to countless plays and paint...
How to Clean a 3,000-Year-Old Hill Figure – Emily Cleaver
Emily Cleaver recounts a recent ‘scouring’ of the Uffington White Horse, the traditional cleaning event that has kept the chalk figure from becoming o...
Transforming Education – A New Manifesto
A discussion as to an alternative vision for education systems, institutions and people in the United Kingdom. Speakers:
David Scott, Universit...
Michael Rosen - So They Call You Pisher!
Michael Rosen has a new memoir, So They Call You Pisher! In this conversation with Daniel Hahn, Rosen recalls the first twenty-three years of his life...
Strange Labyrinth
Will Ashon, author of Strange Labyrinth: Outlaws, Poets, Mystics, Murderers and a Coward in London’s Great Forest, discusses his journey out in to the...
Watling Street: Travels Through Britain and Its Ever-Present Past
Long ago a path was created by the passage of feet tramping through endless forests. Gradually that path became a track, and the track became a road....