What does an 18-month study of residents on a housing estate in southern England tell us about living with debt? Laurie Taylor talks to Ryan Davey from Cardiff University about his new book The Personal Life of Debt - Coercion, Subjectivity and Inequality in Britain, which tries ...Show more
Extreme Sports
What can the worlds of mountaineering and endurance running reveal about changing ideas of freedom, identity and the body? Laurie Taylor talks to Sarah Lonsdale, Senior Lecturer in Journalism at City, University of London, about her new book Wildly Different - her study of early ...Show more
A history of ideas. Presented by Melvyn Bragg but told in many voices.Each week Melvyn is joined by four guests with different backgrounds to discuss a really big question. This week he's asking 'What is Love?'.Helping him answer it are theologian Giles Fraser, writer Lisa Appign ...Show more
الحب.. برغم أنه الاحتياج الأهم للإنسان لكنه من أكتر الأسباب اللي بتسبب له التعاسة. هل فيه علاقة بين أكتر حاجتين الإنسان بيدور عليهم (الحب والسعادة)؟ وإن كان الحب قرار ليه بنقول وقعت في الحب، اعمل ايه في مشاعري؟يستضيف يوسف يعقوب في هذه الحلقة اندرو اشرف -ماجستير الأدب الحديث والمع ...Show more
There’s a venerable philosophical tradition devoted to explaining what love is, and it stretches back to the ancient Greeks. It deals with questions like “the problem of particularity” – the mystery of why, if we fall in love with someone because of their physical beauty and attr ...Show more
Ryan and Todd trace the history of how thinkers have dealt with the problem of love--the varying definitions of love, the view of love's role in society, and love's philosophical importance. They begin with Plato's Symposium, touch on the New Testament, explore the role of love i ...Show more