Prof Steven Conner – A History Of The Air

What are our relations to the air and how have they changed over the last 100 or 200 years?

Professor Connor is the Academic Director, London Consortium School of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College, London. http://www.stevenconnor.com/

Duration: 37:23.

Prof Kevin Buzzard: Number theory and communication

Kevin Buzzard is Professor of Mathematics at Imperial College, London. Visit www.ma.ic.ac.uk/~buzzard/
For further reading, go to Wikipedia and search for “RSA”.

Duration: 35:46.

Dr Ed Baxter: De Quincey Gets Stoned.

The programming director of Resonance FM and co-editor of the Works of Thomas De Quincey discusses the essayist’s autobiographical sequence “A Sketch from Childhood” (1851, 1852).

http://www.pickeringchatto.com/major_works/

Peter Cox: The Radio Ballads

The series of landmark radical works made fifty years ago for British radio are discussed by the author of “Set Into Song: Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker, Peggy Seeger and the Radio Ballads.”

Duration: 69:29.