BBC make sound recordings of the Reith Lectures available for download

[keithpeter]

Hello All

Some free (as in beer, rather than spirit) content for summer listening

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/rla76/all

which can be reached from

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00729d9

where you can also get the transcripts if you prefer reading.

The Reith Lecturers are broadcast on BBC radio and on the world service each year. They are talks given by experts in their fields.

[Throne777]

Hello All

Some free (as in beer, rather than spirit) content for summer listening

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/rla76/all

which can be reached from

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00729d9

where you can also get the transcripts if you prefer reading.

The Reith Lecturers are broadcast on BBC radio and on the world service each year. They are talks given by experts in their fields.

I absolutely love the BBC for doing stuff like this.
If you like philosophy, check out the 1984 lectures done by John Searle. He's a world famous philosopher of mind who came up with important thought experiments against functionalism like his 'Chinese room' argument.
He's also a fairly engaging public speaker based on previous lectures of his I've seen (he did one for Google Talks which you can find on Youtube).