Podcasts to check out

Niccolò Bragg

The Open University has released a series of podcasts on Reading Political Philosophy. This really is an example of The Internet Gift Economy in action!

And on the subject of podcasts, I’d strongly urge anyone who hasn’t already subscribed to the BBC’s ‘In Our Time’ podcast to do so – there have been plenty of good shows recently covering Aristotle’s Politics or The Social Contract, among other subjects. There’s a too-small Facebook group for In Our Time as well, set up by Alan Mills (from which the photoshopping here has been borrowed)

Nigel Warburton hasn’t added to his own podcast recently but they’re a very good primer and well worth a revisit.

Slightly less in the political philosophy vein, but still very good is ‘Undercover Economist’ Tim Harford’s More or Less (iTunes URL) podcast, and the long-standing Radio 4 public policy programme, Analysis (again, an iTunes URL). Laurie Taylor’s Thinking Allowed (iTunes) is also very good on mixing social theory with a chatty late-night format, and it sometimes touches upon issues that readers of this blog may find interesting.

(Hat tip: The Virtual Philosopher)