The wrong
road to a warmer world?
Analysis, BBC Radio 4, 3 April 2008
Nightwaves
BBC Radio 3, 12 March 2008
David Levering Lewis on God's Crucible, Robert Crawford on Full
Volume, Bidisha on Redacted and Liverpool's Bluecoat gallery
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.)
Nightwaves
BBC Radio 3, 27 February 2008
Hanif Kureishi on Something to Tell You, Thomas Ostermeier on Hedda
Gabler, Fay Weldon on Mad Men and drinking culture in Britain
Nightwaves
BBC Radio 3, 14 February 2008
Bernard Schlink on The Homecoming, Edward Lucas on The New Cold
War, photographs from Vanity Fair and Emma Rice's Brief
Encounter
Nightwaves
BBC Radio 3, 28 January 2008
Ismael Beah on A Long Way Gone, the science and art of synaesthesia,
Richard Cork and Stephen Bayley on artistic competition, Ashes to Ashes
and nationalism and Turkish history
Nightwaves
BBC Radio 3, 9 January 2008
Slavoj Zizek on violence, Gandhi and non-violence, Charlie Wilson's War
and William Boyd on Granta's centenary
Nightwaves
BBC Radio 3, 11 December 2007
Richard Ford on the American short story,
Nick Waplington's show at the Whitechapel Gallery, Oscar Niemeyer's centenary
and religion and politics in India
Nightwaves
BBC Radio 3, 19 November 2007
Peter Hennesey on The Cabinet and the Bomb, Anne McElvoy on The
Blair Years, Harold Pinter's Sleuth and the new London Transport
Museum
Leading Edge
BBC Radio 4, 1 November 2007
A comment on race, intelligence and James Watson
Nightwaves
BBC Radio 3, 23 October 2007
David Cronenberg on Eastern Promises, Frederic Rapahel's Fame
and Fortune, anthropologists at war, Siena's Renaissance and RB Kitaj's
legacy
Nightwaves
BBC Radio3, 10 October 2007
Steven Pinker on the stuff of thought, Amit Cahudhuri on the music of fusion,
Zhang Huan's art of shock and Antal Szerb's subversion of power
Nightwaves
BBC Radio 3, 25 September 2007
Karen Armstrong on the Bible, John Everett Millais at the Tate, anthropology
on TV and music on the brain
Nightwaves
BBC Radio 3, 12 September 2007
A Nightwaves special interview with Orhan Pamuk
Nightwaves
BBC Radio 3, 25 June 2007
The Third Way ten years on, the human experience of measurement, the Dixie
Chicks' experience of censorship and Hassan Abdulrazzak's Baghdad Wedding
Nightwaves
BBC Radio 3, 29 May 2007
Salvador Dali's cinema, Cheek by Jowl's Cymbeline and the evolution
of religion
I'm so sorry
Analysis, BBC Radio 4, 26 April 2007
'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 link is to a Radio 3 RealPlayer recording)
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
(The link is to YouTube)
Iconoclasts: Peter Singer
Debate on Peter Singer's philosophy
with Peter Singer, Andrew Linzey and Janet Radcliffe Richards
BBC Radio 4, 6 September 2006
(The link is to a Radio 4 RealPlayer recording)
Victims or Villans?
Analysis, BBC Radi0 4, 31 August 2006
Skullduggery
BBC Radio 4, 28 June 2006
(link is to a Radio 4 RealPlayer recording)
A human politics
Analysis, BBC Radio 4, 16 March 2006
'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
'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
'Who owns culture?'
Analysis, BBC Radio 4, 29 July 2004
'An open door
to disaster?'
Analysis, BBC Radio 4, 18 March 2004
'Tainted gold?'
Analysis, BBC Radio 4, 4 January 2004
'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)
'Clonage humain: les enjeux éthiques'
Interview on the ethics of cloning
Découverte, Radio-Canada, 12 January 2003
(video requires Windows Media Player)
'In need of Utopia?'
Analysis, BBC Radio 4, 19 December 2002
'Consciousness and the novel'
Discussion with David Lodge
Front Row, BBC Radio 4, 5 November 2002
(Audio requires RealOne Player)
'Human nature'
Conversation with Laurie Taylor
Thinking Allowed, BBC Radio 4, 23 October 2002
(Audio requires RealOne Player)
'Cells, souls and science'
Analysis, BBC Radio 4, 18 July 2002
'The origins of values'
Analysis, BBC Radio 4, 11 April 2002
'Man, beast and politics'
Series of three talks for BBC Radio 4
Programme 1, 28 October 2001
Programme 2, 4 November 2001
Programme 3, 11 November 2001