In Business is a Radio 4 treasure, a splendid programme on the world of work. This weeks's show, featuring Nathan Myhrvold and Intellectual Ventures is excellent. And there's a podcast here.
more radio 4
The Lord Melvyn and In Our Time is back. Hurrah. Michael Morpurgo embarks on a 30-part history of British childhood. But I thought the September 27th issue of Thinking Allowed was particularly interesting (especially related to John Grant's anti-changism on Letsseewhathappens.) They look, in different ways, at cultural infatuation with change.
(I also like that I listened to this very Radio 4 programme via my laptop in a Kansas City hotel room at 3 in the morning.)
radio 4 - civilisation in 30 minute chunks
I'm a big fan of BBC Radio 4, all right-thinking people are and I'm always keen to share the interesting bits of it that I've heard. I've been using the Squidoo, and I like Squidoo as an idea, but it's just not working for me. (And right now it's not working at all.) It's too hard to get in and out of a different set of pages and interfaces and menus and stuff. So I don't update it enough. So instead I might start pointing at stuff via here. First couple you can listen to online:
The CIA and the Avant-Garde. A brilliant thing about the Internationalen Ferienkursen für Neue Musik, a festival of challengingly difficult music, funded covertly by Langley. Marvelous.
As Safe As Houses. A series about property from Marcus Brigstocke. Mildly funny and mildy thought-provoking. That sounds like damning with faint praise, but I like mild. Contains a good fact to throw around - there are 60 million people in Britain, and 60 million acres of land. That means me, Anne and Arthur should have 3 acres. Where are our 3 acres?