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I can highly recommend this. For us Brits this is a national institution and appearing on it is considered a badge of honour similar to a minor peerage. We list
by sambeau 9y ago
I can highly recommend this. For us Brits this is a national institution and appearing on it is considered a badge of honour similar to a minor peerage. We listen to it live on a Sunday morning.
If you enjoy the format there is a large archive of these with many of the most influential people of the 20th century. However the modern (Kirsty Young) ones are by far the most insightful due to her masterful, understated interviewing.
I offer these as a taster to non-Brits who would like to hear more:
Dustin Hoffman:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01p314n http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01p314n
Tom Hanks:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b079m78n http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b079m78n
Bruce Springsteen:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0855znp http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0855znp
Bill Gates:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06z1zdt http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06z1zdt
- atmosx 9y agoThanks for this! This is an amazing series!!! I'll probably listen everything in time! Another amazing podcast series from BBC is "a brief history of mathematics": http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00srz5b/episodes/downloads http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00srz5b/episodes/downloads
- pjc50 9y agoThe programme has been running since 1942, so "everything" is rather a lot :) There are a few more programmes of similar longevity, one that people may like is Alistair Cooke's "Letter from America" http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00f6hbp http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00f6hbp from 24 March 1946 to 20 February 2004
- atmosx 9y agoIndeed! Ok, maybe not all of them but definitely some of them! :-)
- oretoz 9y ago"In our times" is great too: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/37pR8YxRMhVwwZvX93r0RZm/in-our-time-downloads http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/37pR8YxRMhVwwZvX93r...