Listen Now - 04102008 | Download Audio - 04102008
The age of a great movement of ideas, the Enlightenment, was also a great age of music: Bach and Handel, Mozart and Haydn. But how did Enlightenment thinkers reflect on music and how does their belief in progress relate to our views of art today? Read Transcript
Listen Now - 27092008 | Download Audio - 27092008
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is more than just the story of a man bolting together his own creature from bits of pre-loved human beings; it's a serious examination of the science and philosophy of its day. This week, we look at the ideas behind the book and how a new enthusiasm for electricity and the spirit world animated the young author's work. Read Transcript
Listen Now - 20092008 | Download Audio - 20092008
This week The Philosopher's Zone looks at what happens when lawyers know more than they are able to tell. What should you do when ethical duty collides with personal morality? We'll take an infamous American murder trial from the 1970s as our case study Read Transcript
Listen Now - 13092008 | Download Audio - 13092008
The finely tuned minds of philosophers become curiously blunt and obtuse when the turn their attention to love. Can we talk philosophically of love? Do we love people for their qualities? If so, why we go on loving them when those qualities change? This week, a philosopher looks at one of the most mysterious forces in life. Read Transcript
Saturday 1.35pm
repeated Monday 1.35pm
Presented by
Alan Saunders
11am AEDT
Bush Telegraph
with Michael Mackenzie
An entertaining look at rural and regional issues around Australia
