Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Cato Daily Podcast - Legal Challenges to NSA Surveillance
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Curious City - Who’s Behind Those Eyes?
The Chicago International Film Festival’s logo has intrigued movie buffs for decades. But is that Charlie Chaplin? Liza Minelli? Here’s the backstory.
Cato Daily Podcast - Journalists and the NSA Scandal
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Cato Daily Podcast - Private Schools for the World’s Poor
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Cato Daily Podcast - Free Speech and Public Space at SCOTUS
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
More or Less: Behind the Stats - WS MoreOrLess: Mosquitoes and elephants
Has the mosquito killed half the people who have ever lived? Tim Harford assesses the claim. Are 96 elephants a day being killed in Africa? Plus, a return to the subject of left-handers ? could it be true that they're more likely to be criminal masterminds? This programme was first broadcast on the BBC World Service.
Start the Week - Victorian Revivalism
Anne McElvoy looks back to the Victorian age with Simon Heffer who argues it laid the foundations for modern society, from the evolution of British democracy, to new attitudes to education, religion and science. Professor of British Government, Anthony King, considers if the blunders of today's parliamentarians has anything on the antics of Gladstone and Disraeli. But the writer DJ Taylor believes it's the era's novels which have left a lasting impression. And the curator Sonia Solicari has created a miscellany of curiosities in her exhibition of contemporary artists influenced and inspired by Victoriana.
Producer: Katy Hickman.
Start the Week - Victorian Revivalism
Anne McElvoy looks back to the Victorian age with Simon Heffer who argues it laid the foundations for modern society, from the evolution of British democracy, to new attitudes to education, religion and science. Professor of British Government, Anthony King, considers if the blunders of today's parliamentarians has anything on the antics of Gladstone and Disraeli. But the writer DJ Taylor believes it's the era's novels which have left a lasting impression. And the curator Sonia Solicari has created a miscellany of curiosities in her exhibition of contemporary artists influenced and inspired by Victoriana.
Producer: Katy Hickman.
More or Less: Behind the Stats - Underage drinking
Are hundreds of young children visiting A&E because of alcohol? Plus, an update on the Trumptonshire economy. And has the mosquito killed half the people who have ever lived? Tim Harford presents.