Nigel Warburton's Podcasts

Links to all Bites podcasts

A thematically arranged list of links to all the Bites podcasts I make with David Edmonds: Philosophy Bites, Ethics Bites, Bioethics Bites,Mulitculturalism Bites, Social Science Bites and Free Speech Bites interviews 

Philosophy Podcasts

Philosophy Bites (with David Edmonds) - a series of over 200 interviews with contemporary philosophers. Also available here on iTunes. Over 15.6 million downloads so far.

Ethics Bites (with David Edmonds) - a series of 14 interviews with contemporary philosophers on different aspects of ethics. There is also a video about making the series and transcripts of all episodes. Made in collaboration with the Open University. Also available on iTunes and on iTunesU.

Bio-Ethics Bites (with David Edmonds) - a series of interviews with leading thinkers on ethical questions surrounding new technology and medicine. This is made in association with the Wellcome Trust and the Oxford University Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics.

Multiculturalism Bites (with David Edmonds) - a series of 10 interviews with leading thinkers on issues arising out of multiculturalism. Made in collaboration with the Open University. Also available on iTunesU.

Philosophy: The Classics - based on my book Philosophy: The Classics, each episode is focused on a great philosophical book. Also available here on iTunes. Nearly 2 million downloads so far.

Everyday Philosophy - a monthly short topical podcast that is based on my (now defunct) column for Prospect Magazine. 22 episodes (on iTunes).

Reading Political Philosophy from Machiavelli to Mill (only on iTunesU here). I conducted the interviews on Machiavelli and Mill for this Open Unviversity course.

On Free Speech (a 20  minute talk based on my book A Very Short Introduction to Free Speech)

A short YouTube video about Free Speech.

A short talk on Jean-Paul Sartre's Existentialism and Humanism (an early attempt at podcasting - audio quality poor, about 15 mins)

Should cyclists stop at red lights? (interview on Resonance FM's The Bike Show)

On Ageing and Cicero (interview on BBC Radio 4 's You and Yours)

On Popularising Philosophy (interview on BBC Radio 4's Today programme)

Do We Still Need Enlightenment Values? (video, panel discussion at the Royal Society of Arts, 2010)

Liberalism Today (panel discussion from the Battle of Ideas, 2010).

Appearance and Reality: a series of short YouTube videos made for the Open University and featuring interviews with Derren Brown

Nigel Warburton reads John Dryden's translation of Lucretius on Fear of Death

 Nigel Warburton interviewed about A Little History of Philosophy for Blackwell podcasts

Humanist Thoughts for the Day

Offensive Views Can Energise Us (on Geert Wilders) from Guardian Comment is Free.

An Incident on a Journey (from Humanist Society of Scotland)

How Much Land Does a Man Need? (from Humanist Society of Scotland)

On Art

Juxtapositions (a lecture for a conference on Museums and Art History at Tate Modern)

Rothko and Nietzsche (1hr 12 mins and 5 secs into this long mp3 - sound only - a lecture for a Rothko Symposium at Tate Modern)

Thomas Demand: Absence and Presence (audio 18mins, from a Tate Modern conference 'Agency and Automatism) a talk about the photographer and how his work deals with what is not present as well as with what is.

On Joan Miró (25 mins video, talk at Tate Modern Miró study day)

On Plato, Hume, Aesthetics etc. from a session of a Tate Modern course, Classic Aesthetics (recorded on a USB microphone)

60 Second YouTube video on architect Ernö Goldfinger and Trellick Tower

On Art and Evolution (discussion with Denis Dutton on BBC Radio 4's Today Programme

What Makes a Fake a Fake? (discussion on BBC Radio 4's 'The Philosopher's Arms, series 2)

On Podcasting

Interview for Oxonians Podcast about Podcasting (with David Edmonds)

Authors' Rights

An interview with novelist Maureen Duffy on plagiarism and copyright (on iTunesU for the Open University)

On Capital Punishment

A discussion about capital punishment (made for the Open University on iTunesU)

On Social Science

Social Science Bites - an ongoing podcast series made in association with SAGE publishing. Nigel Warburton interviews psychologists, sociologists, economists and other social scientists on specific topics and on the nature of the social sciences. Transcripts are also available. Interviewees include Steven Pinker, Jonathan Haidt,  Richard Sennett, Danny Dorling, Robert J. Shiller and others, including (forthcoming) Daniel Kahneman.

Misc.

Nigel contributed to a discussion about writing technologies on BBC Radio 4's Start The Week on 8th October 2012 with Andrew Marr, Diana Athill, Philip Hensher, and Wendy Cope. You can listen to the discussion (43 mins) here.

On Free Speech

Free Speech Bites is a series of 10 interviews on different aspects of free speech with a wide range of interviewees made for Index on Censorship in association with SAGE. It includes interviews with Jonathan DImbleby, the Burmese comedian Zarganar, Irshad Manji and others.