The Forum
June 23rd, 2008 by Steve BowbrickI think The Forum is the best programme on the World Service at the moment. A weekly grown-up debate with brainy guests, in this case musicians Amit Chowdhury, social entrepreneur Mdidi Muenelli and psychologist Stephen Pinker (spellings a bit uncertain there, I can't find anything about the show on the site—the archive is a couple of weeks out of date). It's like a kind of topical In Our Time. This one (MP3), which went out on 15 June, is presented by scientist (and baroness) Susan Greenfield. While you're at it, check out the latest edition, which features Mark Mazower, historian of the Nazis, Jan Zalasiewicz, Geologist and Uzbek novelist Hamid Ismailov. The show's very complete archive is here.
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