This is a list of selected TV and radio broadcasts.
There is also a
complete list of my programmes for Analysis
and for The Moral Maze,
both on BBC Radio 4.
Are we medicalizing morality?
The Moral Maze, BBC Radio 4, 16 March 2011
Does everyone deserve a second chance?
The Moral Maze, BBC Radio 4, 9 March 2011
Marriage - who should it be for?
The Moral Maze, BBC Radio 4, 16 February 2011
Is multiculturalism a good?
The Moral Maze,
BBC Radio 4, 9 February 2011
Is it moral to look to science to extend life?
The Moral Maze, BBC Radio 4, 1 December 2010
Does direct action enhance or degrade democracy?
The Moral Maze, BBC Radio 4, 17 November 2010
Should the poor be forced to work for their benefits?
The Moral Maze, BBC Radio 4, 10 November 2010
How far should we sacrifice liberty to protect security?
The Moral Maze, BBC Radio 4, 3 November 2010
What good is aid?
The Moral Maze, BBC Radio 4, 7 July 2010
Is there a moral case for the war in Afghanistan?
The Moral Maze, BBC Radio 4, 23 June 2010
The Precautionary Principle
The Moral Maze, BBC Radio 4, 16 June 2010
Minds of our own?
Analysis, BBC Radio 4, 15 March 2010
How do you have a merry and moral Christmas?
The Moral Maze, BBC Radio 4, 9 December 2009
What is the nature of good parenting?
The Moral Maze, BBC Radio 4, 11 November 2009
Does Twitter enhance democracy or create mob rule?
The Moral Maze, BBC Radio 4, 4 November 2009
Rushdie Affaeren
In conversation with Aslak Nore
Gyldenhal Arena, Oslo, 29 October 2009
Who's afraid of the BNP?
Analysis, BBC Radio 4, 28 September 2009
Audio Text
Islam, Mullahs and the Media
Five-part series on BBC Radio 4 on the popular portrayal of Islam and of Muslims
Programme 1,
13 August 2009
Programme 2, 20 August 2009
Programme 3,
27 August 2009
Programme 4, 3 September 2009
Programme 5, 10 September 2009
Newsnight Review
with Ekow Eshun, Germaine Greer, Tariq Modood and Martha Kearney
BBC 2, 24 July 2009
What are the limits to religious conscience?
The Moral Maze, BBC Radio 4, 8 July 2009
The morality of nuclear warfare
The Moral Maze, BBC Radio 4, 1 July 2009
Should old women be allowed to become mothers?
The Moral Maze, BBC Radio 4, 10 June 2009
Who is there left to trust?
The Moral Maze, BBC Radio 4, 3 June 2009
From Fatwa to Jihad
Booktalk, BBC Parliamentary Channel, 25 April 2009
clever.com
Analysis, BBC Radio 4, 12 March 2009
Twenty years after the fatwa
Discussion with Yasmin Alibhai Brown and Gideon Haigh
ABC Saturday Extra, 21 February 2009
Salman Rushdie fatwa
ABC Breakfast, 20 February 2009
What should be the limits to state surveillance?
The Moral Maze, BBC Radio 4, 11 February 2009
Censorship since Rushdie's fatwa
Start the Week special
BBC Radio 4, 9 February 2009
What's so good about democracy?
The Moral Maze, BBC Radio 4, 17 December 2008
Should assisted dying be legalised?
The Moral Maze, BBC Radio 4, 10 December 2008
Who deserves charity in a recession?
The Moral Maze, BBC Radio 4, 3 December 2008
Should BNP members be banned from certain jobs?
The Moral Maze, BBC Radio 4, 26 November 2008
What are the moral lessons of the Baby P case?
The Moral Maze, BBC Radio 4, 19 November 2008
Strange Fruit
Interview with Kerry Howley on bloggingheads.tv
17 November 2008
Should the financial crisis make us change our moral ways?
The Moral Maze, BBc Radio 4, 15 October 2008
Who polices the police?
The Moral Maze, BBC Radio 4, 8 October 2008
Should religion have a place in public life?
The Moral Maze, BBC Radio 4, 24 September 2008
Is there a case for all-black schools?
The Moral Maze, BBC Radio 4, 10 September 2008
Can there ever be moral justification for torture?
The Moral Maze, BBC Radio 4, 23 July 2008
When should we forgive and forget?
The Moral Maze, BBC Radio 4, 9 July 2008
Is celebrity culture undermining moral values?
The Moral Maze, BBC Radio 4, 2 July 2008
What does public drunkenness tell us about our moral culture?
The Moral Maze, BBC Radio 4, 4 June 2008
The wrong road to a warmer world?
Analysis, BBC Radio 4, 3 April 2008
Rivers of Blood
BBC 2, 8 March 2008
Documentary on the legacy of Enoch Powell's 'Rivers of Blood' speech
for which I was interviewed.
(There is no online video or transcript of this programme; I will post one up as soon as I can.)
Leading Edge
BBC Radio 4, 1 November 2007
A comment on race, intelligence and James Watson
Nightwaves
BBC Radio 3, 12 September 2007
A Nightwaves special interview with Orhan Pamuk
I'm so sorry
Analysis, BBC Radio 4, 26 April 2007
Audio Text
'It's not where you come from, it's where you're going that matters'
Debate with Howard Jacobson, James Woudhuysen and Juliet Gardner
Part of Radio 3's 'Free Thinking Festival' in Liverpool
BBC Radio 3, 10 November 2006
The Dispatches debate: Muslims and free speech
Television debate with Imran Khan on whether the right to free speech should include the right to give offence
Dispatches, Channel 4, 23 October 2006
(There is no longer an online video of this debate for copyright reasons. I will put one up as soon as I am able.)
Iconoclasts: Peter Singer
Debate on Peter Singer's philosophy
with Peter Singer, Andrew Linzey, Janet Radcliffe Richards and myself
BBC Radio 4, 6 September 2006
Victims or Villans?
Analysis, BBC Radio 4, 31 August 2006
Audio Text
Skullduggery
BBC Radio 4, 28 June 2006
A human politics
Analysis, BBC Radio 4, 16 March 2006
Audio Text
'Britain's tribal tensions'
30 Minutes, Channel 4, 10 February 2006
(There is no online video or transcript of this programme; I will post one up as soon as I can.)
A colour coded prescription
Analysis, BBC Radio 4, 17 November 2005
Audio Text
Going to the blogs?
Analysis, BBC Radio 4, 31 March 2005
Let 'em all in
Channel 4, 7 March 2005
(There is no online video or transcript of this programme; I will post one up as soon as I can.)
'Are Muslims hated?'
30 Minutes, Channel 4, 8 January 2005
Catch them young
Analysis, BBC Radio 4, 26 August 2004
Audio Text
Who owns culture?
Analysis, BBC Radio 4, 29 July 2004
Audio Text
An open door to disaster?
Analysis, BBC Radio 4, 18 March 2004
Audio Text
Tainted gold?
Analysis, BBC Radio 4, 4 January 2004
Audio Text
'The perils of multiculturalism'
BBC Asian Network, 12 November 2003
Disunited Kingdom
TV essay on the consequences of multiculturalism.
Channel 4, 29 October 2003
(There is no online video or transcript of this programme; I will post one up as soon as I can.)
For reviews of the programme, click here.
'Home alone'
Analysis, BBC Radio 4, 14 August 2003
'Thinking in public'
Analysis, BBC Radio 4, 10 April 2003
The Double Helix
Two-part documentary on the history of our understanding of genetics, evolution and human nature. Among those taking part, apart from myself, are James Watson, EO Wilson, Steven Pinker, Richard Dawkins, Steve Jones and Richard Lewontin.
BBC4, 22 April 2003
(There is no online video or transcript of this programme; I will post one up as soon as I can)
In need of Utopia?
Analysis, BBC Radio 4, 19 December 2002
Audio Text
'Consciousness and the novel'
Discussion with David Lodge
Front Row, BBC Radio 4, 5 November 2002
'Human nature'
Conversation with Laurie Taylor
Thinking Allowed, BBC Radio 4, 23 October 2002
Cells, souls and science
Analysis, BBC Radio 4, 18 July 2002
Audio Text
The origins of values
Analysis, BBC Radio 4, 11 April 2002
Audio Text
'Man, beast and politics'
Series of three talks for BBC Radio 4's Westminster Hour
Programme 1, 28 October 2001
Programme 2, 4 November 2001
Programme 3, 11 November 2001