What do we learn when a city’s future is defined not by rapid change, but by who leaves and who stays? Laurie Taylor looks at two neighbourhoods in different countries, during different periods in history and explores the human cost of gentrification - and what happens when the p ...Show more
Prison violence, sound and survival
The winner of the British Society of Criminology Book Award in 2025 was Kate Herrity. Her study looks at the way our different senses contribute to the experience of prison life and is called Sound, Order and Survival in Prison: The Rhythms and Routines of HMP Midtown. Her resear ...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