The Hedgehog and the Fox

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August 14, 2017 Pat Shipman: “We turned wolves into dogs”
In Pat Shipman’s book, The Invaders (Harvard University Press), she argues that our last close relative, the Neanderthals, were driven to extinction not solely by climate change – though that… Read More
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10 min
August 05, 2017 Jerry Kaplan: Humans Need Not Apply
The recent news story about robots developing their own private language claimed alarmed Facebook researchers had to pull the plug on their experiment. The story turned out to be not… Read More
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14 min
July 28, 2017 Jan Zalasiewicz on 4 billion years of climate history
What do we know about the Earth’s ancient climate, and how do we know it? What can it tell us about its – and our – possible future? Leicester professor… Read More
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21 min
July 26, 2017 Fiona Stafford on the long, long life of trees
This week’s programme is an interview with Fiona Stafford, in which we discuss humanity’s long, rich and complex relationship with trees. Fiona, who is a professor of English at Oxford,… Read More
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18 min
July 26, 2017 Gay Bradshaw: elephants on the edge
“Elephants are not treated much differently now than they were in the mid-eighteenth century: they are objects of awe and conservation, yet legally hunted, made captive, abused, and forced to… Read More
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19 min
July 24, 2017 Of micro-histories and Vikings
I heard an interesting interview with Robert Ferguson on the New York Times Books podcast at the weekend in which he talked about his new book on Scandinavia (“an engaging,… Read More
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17 min
July 18, 2017 Robert Douglas-Fairhurst on the young Dickens
Here is another freshly re-edited recording from my archive. Robert Douglas-Fairhurst’s biography of the first three decades of Dickens’ life, published by Harvard University Press, is a terrifically readable, refreshing… Read More
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29 min
July 07, 2017 Martin Kemp on the human animal in art and science
‘As soon as humans make images, they make them about humans and they make them about animals and the relationship between them.’ My guest on this programme from the archive… Read More
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15 min
July 05, 2017 Mary Beard on the Roman triumph
“I’m interested in saying, look, how can you challenge the Asterix-and-the-Romans kind of image that we tend to have of Rome? We are determined to turn a blind eye to… Read More
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33 min
July 03, 2017 Roger Luckhurst on the mummy’s curse
My guest on this newly re-edited programme from the archive is Roger Luckhurst, who – as he puts it – teaches “horror and the occasional respectable novel by Henry James”… Read More
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28 min

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