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  • Bill Wyman

    Bill Wyman, who is 90 years old this week, and was for 31 years the bass player of the The Rolling Stones, is our guest today. Bill talks to Gyles about his wartime childhood in south-east London, and some of the really visceral experiences he had during the war of bombing and evacuation. He talks about his grandmother - who taught him to read, got him started on piano lessons, and made delicious bread pudding; and his dad, who was a tough disciplinarian who didn't like the airs and graces that Bill picked up at grammar school. Bill talks about the early days of the Rolling Stones, when Mick, Keith and Brian Jones lived in a squalid flat in Chelsea and could barely afford to feed themselves. He talks about his close friendship with Charlie Watts and their reputation as the best rhythm section in rock and roll. He talks about the instrumental role the Beatles played in the Stones being discovered. And he talks about leaving the group and finding success - and happiness - in collaboration with other musicians and artists later in his career.


    This is a fascinating chat with the "oldest living rocker" on the planet, who was there at the heart of it all.


    Bill has a number of releases coming up to mark his 90th birthday, including The Best of Bill Wyman, available here, and Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings, Ultimate Collection, available here.


    Our heartfelt thanks to Bill for this conversation, and a very, very happy birthday from all of us at Rosebud!

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    1 hr 43 min
  • Unexpected Guests

    Meg Wolitzer presents two stories about unexpected guests.  In Carlos Greaves’ “A Visit from the Tune Squad,” a procrastinating writer gets a surprise intervention, in performances by Santino Fontana, Dylan Marron, and Sarah Mezzanotte.  In our second story, Willa Cather delivers a moving tale of sin and redemption.  Patricia Clarkson reads “The Burglar’s Christmas.”


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    1 hr 3 min
  • On Jean-Baptiste Lamarck with Jessica Riskin

    In this show, Robert Harrison discusses the remarkable evolutionary theories of French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck with Stanford professor Jessica Riskin. Dr. Riskin is the Frances and Charles Field Professor of History at Stanford University. She is the author of The Restless Clock (2019), Science in the Age of Sensibility (2002), and most recently The Power […]

    57 min
  • Why Richard Dawkins thinks AI is conscious

    Richard Dawkins is in conversation with Kim Hill. Half a century after The Selfish Gene the controversial evolutionary biologist reflects on his theories and argues AI could already be conscious. Richard Dawkins is appearing in Auckland on November 20, 2026, at the Aotea Centre and in Wellington on November 23, 2026, at the Michael Fowler Centre.

    Watch the video version of this episode on the RNZ website on YouTube or TVNZ+.

    Season 2 Episode 5

    In this episode:
    (03:00) Understanding genes and altruism
    (11:08) The rise of AI, its impact on society
    (15:08) Is AI a new form of life?
    (28:27) The Frightening Possibilities of Genetic Advances
    (30:39) The role of religion and our need for belief systems: the impact of 'The God Delusion'
    (35:35) The beauty of science and nature
    (37:29) Gender, biology, and language
    (45:59) Conservation success stories
    (46:49) The future of extinct species revival

    Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

    51 min
  • The Jackpod: A rough start for Gen Z

    On Point news analyst Jack Beatty looks into the impact that AI is having on the job market for Gen Z graduates and the difference that choice of college major can make.

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  • Daisy Dixon on Depraved Art

    Can a work of art be immoral? What does that mean? Daisy Dixon, author of Depraved: The Story of Dangerous Art discusses this question with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. 

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  • Archive: Erasmus

    One of the most celebrated thinkers of the Renaissance, Erasmus (c1466-1536) is best known for his works of classical and religious scholarship, and for his infamous theological dispute with Martin Luther (1483-1546) over free will and the Church.

    In this archive episode, first released in February 2012, Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Dutch humanist scholar Desiderius Erasmus. Erasmus was widely seen as the greatest classical scholar of his age, having translated and edited numerous Latin and Greek texts. Above all though, he was a religious scholar who published important editions of the Bible which expunged many corruptions to the texts of the Scriptures. He was an outspoken critic of the Church, whose biting satire on its excesses, In Praise of Folly, was famed throughout Europe. When the Reformation began in 1517, however, Erasmus chose to remain a member of the Catholic Church rather than side with Martin Luther and the reformers, and a few years later he engaged in a celebrated debate with Luther on the subject of free will. Through his writings on the Church, on education and the wide gamut of humanist scholarship, Erasmus is remembered today as one of the greatest thinkers of the northern Renaissance.
    With
    Diarmaid MacCulloch
    Professor of the History of the Church at the University of Oxford
    Eamon Duffy
    Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Cambridge
    Jill Kraye
    Professor of the History of Renaissance Philosophy and Librarian at the Warburg Institute, University of London
    Producer: Thomas Morris
    In Our Time is a BBC Studios production
    A world-class seminar every week. Spanning history, religion, culture, science and philosophy, In Our Time celebrates the pursuit of knowledge and the enduring power of ideas. In each episode, host Misha Glenny and expert guests explore the characters, events and discoveries that have shaped our world.

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  • First Draft - Yiyun Li (Returns)

    Yiyun Li is the author of several works of fiction—Wednesday’s Child; The Book of Goose; Must I Go; Where Reasons End; Kinder Than Solitude; Gold Boy, Emerald Girl; The Vagrants; and A Thousand Years of Good Prayers—and the memoirs Things in Nature Merely Grow and Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life. She is the recipient of many awards, including the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in Memoir or Autobiography, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, a PEN/Faulkner Award, a PEN/Malamud Award, a PEN/Hemingway Award, a PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a Windham–Campbell Prize, and has been a finalist for the National Book Award. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, The Best American Short Stories, and The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, among other publications. She teaches at Princeton University and lives in Princeton, New Jersey.  Her new novel is Music Against the Night


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  • Iris Murdoch and Heidegger Podcast

    In this episode Miles is joined by Justin Broackes (Brown, USA) and Matt Dougherty (CEU, Vienna) to discuss the influence of Martin Heidegger on Murdoch's philosophy, and Murdoch's forthcoming work on Heidegger which has been edited by Justin.

    Justin Broackes is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Brown University. His research spans perception, metaphysics and the history of philosophy. He edited Iris Murdoch, Philosopher, which includes part of Murdoch’s previously unpublished Heidegger manuscript, and has worked extensively on her moral philosophy, particularly The Sovereignty of Good. He has recently completed editing Murdoch final philosophical work, which focuses on Heidegger.
    Matthew Dougherty is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Central European University in Vienna. His research interests include epistemology, ethics and continental philosophy. His article “Murdoch on Heidegger” examines Murdoch’s changing engagement with Heidegger, exploring their disagreements about value and her defence of the Good against his conception of Being.

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