The Sunday Supplement is part of a programme called the Westminster Hour. They are 15-minute programmes on topics such as “The Jam Generation” and “Who owns Adam Smith?” These are not podcasts but you can listen to them at the website.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/the_westminster_hour/6739227.stm
PETA Offers Incentive for Test-Tube Meat Research.Animal rights group PETA is offering a $1 million prize for the development of commercially-viable “test-tube meat” — real meat grown through a lab process, not from a live animal.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89942776
‘Elite’… What’s it to You? Fresh Air linguist Geoff Nunberg considers the evolution of the meaning of the “e” word.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89940718
This week’s Start the Week includes the philosophers Daniel Dennett and Raymond Tallis. Biographer Carole Seymour Jones discusses her new book A Dangerous Liaison, a revisionist take on Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. The podcast is only available for a week but you can listen to this and lots of previous shows at the website.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/starttheweek.shtml
Small is not beautiful
A new report on the ‘way forward for agriculture’ has been used to justify dragging farming backwards – to the detriment of the poor.
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/5016/
Morality and political violence
A Report from ABC Radio National (Australia) looking at the moral questions relating to war,terrorism and rebellion. This podcast has a transcript – they are usually posted a couple of day after the programme has been aired.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/philosopherszone/stories/2008/2223849.htm
And finally something I saw in The Observer today – Revenge is a dish best served … online.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/apr/27/internet.blogging
