Conway Hall: Where Ethics Matter
Podcasting from the Ethical Society
Religion & Spirituality
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- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 63 minutes
- Episodes
- 97
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2019
Humanism (Part Two)
Pause for Thought was a humanist alternative to the BBC Radio 4 programme Thought for the Day, broadcast on BBC World Service from 1997-99.
Produced by Christopher Templeton. Donated to Conway Hall L…
00:03:58 |
Tue 07 Aug 2018
Labels
Pause for Thought was a humanist alternative to the BBC Radio 4 programme Thought for the Day, broadcast on BBC World Service from 1997-99.
Produced by Christopher Templeton. Donated to Conway Hall L…
00:04:04 |
Tue 07 Aug 2018
Children
Pause for Thought was a humanist alternative to the BBC Radio 4 programme Thought for the Day, broadcast on BBC World Service from 1997-99.
Produced by Christopher Templeton. Donated to Conway Hall L…
00:04:18 |
Tue 07 Aug 2018
Truth
Pause for Thought was a humanist alternative to the BBC Radio 4 programme Thought for the Day, broadcast on BBC World Service from 1997-99.
Produced by Christopher Templeton. Donated to Conway Hall L…
00:04:01 |
Tue 07 Aug 2018
Humanist Education
Pause for Thought was a humanist alternative to the BBC Radio 4 programme Thought for the Day, broadcast on BBC World Service from 1997-99.
Produced by Christopher Templeton. Donated to Conway Hall L…
00:03:47 |
Tue 07 Aug 2018
The New Millenium
Pause for Thought was a humanist alternative to the BBC Radio 4 programme Thought for the Day, broadcast on BBC World Service from 1997-99.
Produced by Christopher Templeton. Donated to Conway Hall L…
00:03:56 |
Tue 07 Aug 2018
Tolerance
Pause for Thought was a humanist alternative to the BBC Radio 4 programme Thought for the Day, broadcast on BBC World Service from 1997-99.
Produced by Christopher Templeton. Donated to Conway Hall L…
00:04:04 |
Tue 07 Aug 2018
Yellow
Pause for Thought was a humanist alternative to the BBC Radio 4 programme Thought for the Day, broadcast on BBC World Service from 1997-99.
Produced by Christopher Templeton. Donated to Conway Hall L…
00:04:12 |
Tue 07 Aug 2018
Encouragement
Pause for Thought was a humanist alternative to the BBC Radio 4 programme Thought for the Day, broadcast on BBC World Service from 1997-99.
Produced by Christopher Templeton. Donated to Conway Hall L…
00:04:34 |
Tue 07 Aug 2018
In the dead of the night, when all people were sleeping: Ghosts in folk songs
Traditional songs are full of folklore about ghosts. They tell you why people become ghosts, what ghosts look like, what the living must do to allow the dead to rest in peace. Paul Cowdell, folklore …
00:34:34 |
Wed 29 Nov 2017
Malkin: The Pendle witches
Camille Ralphs will recite the entirety of acclaimed poetry pamphlet Malkin, ‘an ellegy in 14 spels’ in the voices of those accused in the 1612 Pendle Witch Trials.
Award for Best Poetry Pamphlet, a…
00:20:12 |
Wed 29 Nov 2017
‘I Shall Goe Unto a Hare’ – Isobel Gowdie, Covens, Shamans and Familiar Spirits.
The four confessions given by Isobel Gowdie to a Scottish court, in May 1662, are seminal witchcraft texts; bringing folk belief in the faerie, the world of familiar spirits, night flight and the cov…
00:29:31 |
Wed 29 Nov 2017
The Haunted Landscapes of World War One – Professor Owen Davies
Whether one believes in ghosts or not, it is an easy assumption that sightings of ghosts must have been common on the First World War battlefields considering the sheer number of traumatic deaths and…
00:28:24 |
Wed 29 Nov 2017
The Walking Dead – Dr. Carolyne Larrington
The dead don’t always stay peacefully in their graves. British folklore and chronicle relates from very early times instances of vampire-like and undead behaviour, spelling disaster for communities. …
00:27:41 |
Mon 27 Nov 2017
The Appearance of Ghosts: shrouds, sheets or see-through? Dr. Susan Owens
The idea that the dead can return to haunt the living is deeply rooted in the British imagination, and ghosts are central to countless plays and paintings, stories and ballads, photographs and films.…
00:29:19 |
Fri 24 Nov 2017
How to Clean a 3,000-Year-Old Hill Figure – Emily Cleaver
Emily Cleaver recounts a recent ‘scouring’ of the Uffington White Horse, the traditional cleaning event that has kept the chalk figure from becoming overgrown since its construction in the Iron Age. …
00:21:13 |
Fri 24 Nov 2017
Transforming Education – A New Manifesto
A discussion as to an alternative vision for education systems, institutions and people in the United Kingdom. Speakers:
David Scott, University College London, Institute of Education
Robin Street, …
01:21:54 |
Wed 22 Nov 2017
Michael Rosen - So They Call You Pisher!
Michael Rosen has a new memoir, So They Call You Pisher! In this conversation with Daniel Hahn, Rosen recalls the first twenty-three years of his life.
In partnership with Newham Books.
Recorded: Th…
01:18:05 |
Tue 21 Nov 2017
Strange Labyrinth
Will Ashon, author of Strange Labyrinth: Outlaws, Poets, Mystics, Murderers and a Coward in London’s Great Forest, discusses his journey out in to the edges of London.
Hosted by Scott Wood from New L…
00:59:25 |
Sun 08 Oct 2017
Watling Street: Travels Through Britain and Its Ever-Present Past
Long ago a path was created by the passage of feet tramping through endless forests. Gradually that path became a track, and the track became a road. It connected the White Cliffs of Dover to the Dru…
01:02:38 |
Thu 14 Sep 2017
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