Where would I be without the BBC...?

...Well, without BBC radio 4 at least.


There seems to be a lot of thought provoking stuff in the R 4 schedules this month.  Here are a few things that have 'caught my ear':

'Capital Justice'

Helena Kennedy QC presents a series uncovering the relationship between the UK's financial and legal systems, between capitalism and the law and between freedom and justice

PROGRAMMES:

on BBC iPlayer (1)

coming up (1)

PREVIOUS PROGRAMMES:

by year (4)

'Stephanomics'

Stephanie Flanders presents a series on the economics of our times

PROGRAMMES:

on BBC iPlayer (5)

coming up (3)

PREVIOUS PROGRAMMES:

by series (2)

by year (6)

'More or less'

Tim Harford explains - and sometimes debunks - the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life

PROGRAMMES:

on BBC iPlayer (69)

coming up (2)

PREVIOUS PROGRAMMES:

by year (99)

'Unbuilt Britain'

Architectural writer and historian Jonathan Glancey looks at the great building projects of Britain that never made it off the drawing board

PROGRAMMES:

on BBC iPlayer (1)

coming up (3)

PREVIOUS PROGRAMMES:

by year (5)

(On every day this week)

'Does Science need the People'

Who should decide on whether funding for things like GM, nanotechnology, embryonic stem cell research or particle physics goes ahead? At the moment most of the money for science lies with the research councils, to whom scientists go cap in hand year after year. That's around 3 billion pounds of public money. So should the public have more of a say?

And here are a few things that I just missed out on

'All in the Mind'

Programme exploring the limits and potential of the human mind

PROGRAMMES:

on BBC iPlayer (96)

PREVIOUS PROGRAMMES:

by year (97)

26/06/2012

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(28 minutes)

Available since Tue, 26 Jun 2012.

Richard Mabey on depressive illness, ecotherapy, and the evidence for 'green therapy'.

'Law in Action'

Long-running legal magazine programme, featuring reports and discussion on matters relating to law

And a couple of  things I'll go back and listen to:

'The Search for Growth'

Stephanie Flanders sets out on the search for growth in Britain's economy

PROGRAMMES:

on BBC iPlayer (2)

PREVIOUS PROGRAMMES:

by year (2)

'The Story of Economics'

Michael Blastland lays out the history of economic ideas to understand why economics goes wrong and whether it can ever go entirely right

PROGRAMMES:

on BBC iPlayer (3)

PREVIOUS PROGRAMMES:

by year (3)