https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl/episodes/player
Melvyn Bragg’s “In Our Time” podcasts (1,000 or so) on philosophy, history, science, the arts.
About 1 very fast hour each, hosted/moderated by Bragg with 3 guest university profs/experts. He asks questions for layman clarification along the way and inserts some personal opinions, framing and guiding the discussion which moves and jumps around fast. It is a challenge for the listener to keep up. An excellent thinking workout.
Topics which I’ve checked out and I’ll be checking out include:
Consciousness, Inspiration and Genius, Shakespeare’s Work, Dickens, Tolstoy, Odyssey, Beauty, Lear, Thoreau, Brave New World, 1984, Ulysses, Chekhov, Ibsen, Montaigne, Truth, The Trial, Four Quartets, Hamlet, Beethoven, Bergson and Time, Lawrence of Arabia, Auden, Macbeth, Shakespeare Sonnets, Christmas Carol, John Donne.