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BYUradio's "This'll Take a While" brings you engaging and often digressive conversations about film, books, geography, culture, art, hockey, and pretty much everything else. Join Professor Dean Duncan... more
FAQs about This'll Take A While:How many episodes does This'll Take A While have?The podcast currently has 64 episodes available.
April 16, 2018Evolution is a benevolent universality, in all sorts of waysSeth Bybee continues our series of biological discussions by explaining the particularities of scientific theory, and the semi-certainties that that concept suggests. After that he and Dean move onto something that might have frightened some of you, and maybe without reason. It's okay. We all evolve!...more0minPlay
April 02, 2018BiosphericalBYU biologist Roger Koide discusses the fundamental interdependency of all species, great and small. He shows how an understanding of this quite wonderful reality can move us past the antagonism we sometimes feel toward other organisms, or to the positive voices that properly advocate for them....more0minPlay
March 12, 2018Big Concepts We Should All Probably Know AboutStan Benfell, a professor in BYU's department of comparative arts and letters, visits Dean to educate him about some very big words that we've all heard of, and might not know enough about. Classical? Medievalism? Romance? Renaissance? These sagas all unfold here....more0minPlay
February 23, 2018Faraway FilmsCollege of Humanities professors Daryl Lee and Chip Oscarson visit the show on the 50th anniversary of BYU's celebrated International Cinema program. They affirm that though subtitles may seem hard at first, being open to the world's films may just help us to solve some of the world's problems....more0minPlay
February 23, 2018Drafting a personal essay, right here on the airAcclaimed essayist Patrick Madden rejoins the program to talk Dean through some of the rudiments, challenges and satisfactions of simultaneously living and writing your life....more0minPlay
January 24, 2018Your Dental Health Is the Key to Your Physical and Emotional Well-BeingBetween the two of them, Gordon and Rella Christensen have more dentistry-related university degrees than you can even brandish a drill at. They bring all of that knowledge and experience, together with inspiring amounts of conviction and devotion, to show how if you take care of your teeth, your teeth will take care of you....more0minPlay
December 19, 2017Young and OldDean warily welcomes three actual and authentic Millennials to the program. They tactfully try to tell him about how obsolescent he obviously is. He counters with unrelated and unconvincing tales about his cool youth. Altogether, a pretty depressing prospect!...more0minPlay
December 18, 2017Some Thoughts on Advocacy and ActivismLooks like Dean wanted Naomi Watkins, co-founder of Aspiring Mormon Women, to come on the show in order to personify the convergence of technology and feminism. Watch him scramble as Naomi quickly outflanks him, demonstrating again how much more people are than any mere preconception or pigeonhole....more0minPlay
December 07, 2017A Father of DaughtersBYU Communications scholar and professor Scott Church visits the program to talk about what's really important to him, which is the somewhat challenge and unspeakable privilege of being a (co) parent of all and only girls....more0minPlay
December 04, 2017A Gathering PlaceBrad Kramer, an instructor of anthropology at Utah Valley University, joins Dean to talk about his Writ and Vision gallery and bookstore, a general meeting place for smart and aspiring and restless people....more0minPlay
FAQs about This'll Take A While:How many episodes does This'll Take A While have?The podcast currently has 64 episodes available.