Conway Hall: Where Ethics Matter
Podcasting from the Ethical Society
Religion & Spirituality
Philosophy
Science & Medicine
Natural Sciences
Education
Society & Culture
Other
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 63 minutes
- Episodes
- 97
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2019
London Thinks - Facts and Fantasy About Your Diet & Health
When most of us hear the word “genome” we think of human DNA, the material that was long seen as the blueprint of human health and disease. Today, we know that there are many more factors than our DN…
01:27:38 |
Tue 28 Jul 2015
War, Terror and Community - An Islamic Perspective
*Apologies for the sound quality in the room we recorded this in*
How do we work together so that there is understanding between our communities and what common values can we identify that will crea…
01:45:46 |
Tue 28 Jul 2015
London Thinks- Waiting For GLaDOS
What Could Sentient Machines Mean for Humanity?
For decades, we've imagined the rise of computer-based life forms, super-intelligences whose intellects could far surpass our own and trigger a new ph…
01:34:29 |
Tue 28 Jul 2015
London Thinks - In Conversation: Prof Brian Cox And Dr Adam Rutherford
Join Brian Cox as he talks with Adam Rutherford about bull semen, the importance of getting people engaged with science and why the UK needs to aspire to be the best place for science in the world.
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01:41:50 |
Sat 20 Jun 2015
Richard Dawkins And Lawrence Krauss - An Evening With The Unbelievers
Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss Q&A session after a screening of the Unbelievers (http://www.unbelieversmovie.com/). Recorded at Conway Hall, London. 23rd October 2014
00:52:29 |
Tue 09 Jun 2015
London Thinks - Prof Peter Singer - What's The Most Good You Can Do?
Peter Singer shows how living altruistically often leads to greater personal fulfillment than living for oneself.
His most recent book is, The Most Good You Can Do, which helps to develop the challe…
01:19:19 |
Tue 09 Jun 2015
London Thinks - How To Topple a Dictator
In conversation with Nick Cohen, Srdja Popovic will explain how he became one of the leaders of Otpor! — the movement which overthrew dictator Slobodan Milosevic. He has since gone on to train the pr…
01:25:12 |
Fri 10 Apr 2015
London Thinks - The Rise Of UKIP
Where did it come from, and how far can it go in the general election? Part of the "London Thinks" discussion series.
Recorded at Conway Hall: Thursday 19th March 2015
01:09:06 |
Mon 06 Apr 2015
London Thinks - Nate Phelps is Leaving Hate Behind
An evening with Nate Phelps (son of the late Fred Phelps, founder and patriarch of the Westboro Baptist Church – “the most hated family in America”), in an incredibly moving talk on the Westboro Bapt…
01:17:11 |
Wed 04 Feb 2015
A Scientist, An Atheist Biblical Scholar And A Vicar...
Are religious doctrines destined for the bin? Does a wholly secular scientific society miss out on a sense of spirituality and pastoral care? Is the Interstellar film as bad as everyone makes out? Th…
01:53:39 |
Wed 04 Feb 2015
London Thinks - Ben Goldacre & Trisha Greenhalgh Q&A
The very best journalism from one of Britain’s most admired and outspoken science writers, author of the bestselling "Bad Science" and "Bad Pharma" and his new book "I Think You'll Find It's a Bit Mo…
00:27:01 |
Wed 04 Feb 2015
Things I Never Knew about my Father
Prof Lisa Jardine talks about her father, Jacob Bronowski, his involvement in being spied upon by M.I.5. during World War II, McCarthyism in the UK and surveillance culture, and how he ended up being…
01:25:26 |
Fri 27 Jun 2014
Inside Britain's Creationist Schools - Johnny Scaramanga
Jonny Scaramanga attended a fundamentalist Christian school in the '90s where he learned that the Loch Ness Monster disproved evolution, God disapproved of the NHS, and homosexuals were an abominatio…
01:34:46 |
Fri 06 Jun 2014
Human rights: are women human enough to have human rights? Naomi McAuliffe
Human Rights campaigner, Naomi McAuliffe, talks about how women's rights are treated as an optional extra to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and argues that a change needs to come when all…
01:38:56 |
Fri 06 Jun 2014
Godless and broke: making secular groups less middle class - Alex Gabriel
Alex was homeless in the first year of his life and grew up with a single mum on benefits. Now he's a full time atheist who thinks we need to talk more about class.
Doubt and skepticism don't cost mo…
01:35:08 |
Thu 05 Jun 2014
Understanding Human - Dr Omar Sheikho Murad
Omar has been in touch with human pain and suffering since very early in life. After being in two wars and one violent uprising in Iraq, he finally escaped to London in 1996 as a refugee. He now work…
01:34:27 |
Thu 05 Jun 2014
Do Philosophy and Politics Mix? - Dr Mark Fielding
Dr Mark Fielding on Do Philosophy and Politics mix?
Philosophy tries to picture the world as it is in general terms, but politics focusses on the way the world should be. Martin Heidegger provides a…
01:35:48 |
Thu 05 Jun 2014
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