Ali Mazrui - The African Condition

Patterns of Identity

Professor Ali Mazrui explains the significance of the size and fragmentation of Africa.

• 30 mins

Ali Mazrui - The African Condition

In Search of Pax Africana

Professor Ali Mazrui explores how Africa's location holds the key to its destiny.

• 30 mins

Ian Kennedy - Unmasking Medicine

The Rhetoric of Medicine

Professor Sir Ian Kennedy analyses the role of the doctor in the modern world.

• 30 mins

Ian Kennedy - Unmasking Medicine

The New Magicians

Sir Ian Kennedy explains why he believes modern medicine has taken the wrong path.

• 30 mins

Ian Kennedy - Unmasking Medicine

Suffer the Little Children

Sir Ian Kennedy reviews how he believes the National Health Service could be improved.

• 30 mins

Ian Kennedy - Unmasking Medicine

If I Were You, Mrs B

Sir Ian Kennedy reviews the ethical judgements used by the medical profession.

• 30 mins

Ian Kennedy - Unmasking Medicine

The Doors of Mental Illness

Sir Ian Kennedy explores the the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness.

• 30 mins

Ian Kennedy - Unmasking Medicine

Let's Kill All the Lawyers

Sir Ian Kennedy analyses how consumerism regulates the medical profession and health care.

• 30 mins

Laurence Martin - The Two Edged Sword

If You Knows of a Better 'ole...

Professor Laurence Martin questions how nations protect national security.

• 30 mins

Laurence Martin - The Two Edged Sword

Plausibility and Horror

Professor Laurence Martin explores the strategic limitations of nuclear weapons.

• 30 mins

Laurence Martin - The Two Edged Sword

Shadow Over Europe

Professor Laurence Martin explores the strategic nuclear balance of countries.

• 30 mins

Laurence Martin - The Two Edged Sword

Conflicts of the Third World

Professor Laurence Martin explores the conflicts of strategic policy over the Third World.

• 30 mins

Laurence Martin - The Two Edged Sword

Not For the Sake of Their Blue Eyes

Professor Laurence Martin debates the disarmament and arms control of countries.

• 30 mins

Laurence Martin - The Two Edged Sword

Who's Moving the Goal Post?

Professor Laurence Martin explores the future of strategic defence.

• 30 mins

Denis Donoghue - The Arts Without Mystery

The Zealots of Explanation

Denis Donoghue explores how and why people destroy the mystery of art.

• 30 mins

Denis Donoghue - The Arts Without Mystery

The Domestication of Outrage

Irish literary critic Denis Donoghue evaluates how the creation of art can be a mystery.

• 30 mins

Denis Donoghue - The Arts Without Mystery

The Parade of Ideas

Denis Donoghue examines how critics influence society's perception of art.

• 30 mins

Denis Donoghue - The Arts Without Mystery

A Cherishing Bureaucracy

Denis Donoghue analyses how the categorisation of art is destroying its mystery.

• 30 mins

Denis Donoghue - The Arts Without Mystery

The Anxious Object

Denis Donoghue evaluates the destruction of raw art by interpretation.

• 30 mins

Denis Donoghue - The Arts Without Mystery

A Talent For Conviction

Irish literary critic Denis Donoghue explores societies' need to over analyse art.

• 30 mins

Douglas Wass - Government and the Governed

United Thoughts & Counsels

Sir Douglas Wass examines what we mean by 'government'.

• 30 mins

Douglas Wass - Government and the Governed

Cabinet: Directorate or Directory?

Sir Douglas Wass analyses the effectiveness of the British Parliamentary Cabinet.

• 30 mins

Douglas Wass - Government and the Governed

The Privileged Adviser

Sir Douglas Wass asks which Civil Service reforms would strengthen it and which weaken it.

• 30 mins

Douglas Wass - Government and the Governed

Critical Opposition - Part of the Policy

Sir Douglas Wass examines the executive power of Parliament.

• 30 mins

Douglas Wass - Government and the Governed

Opening Up Government.

Sir Douglas Wass examines the effect on government of more public access to information.

• 30 mins

Douglas Wass - Government and the Governed

Participation - the Sole Bond

Sir Douglas Wass makes the case for a more autonomous Royal Commission.

• 30 mins

John Searle - Minds, Brains and Science

A Froth on Reality

Professor John Searle examines the connections between the mind and the brain.

• 30 mins

John Searle - Minds, Brains and Science

Beer Cans & Meat Machines

Professor John Searle considers whether a digital computer can be taught to think.

• 30 mins

John Searle - Minds, Brains and Science

Grandmother Knew Best

Professor John Searle examines the discipline of cognitive science.

• 30 mins

John Searle - Minds, Brains and Science

Walk to Patagonia

Professor John Searle analyses how our mental activities can produce our behaviour.

• 30 mins