Brandon Watson over at Siris has been writing a series of posts on the Platonic dialogues and this has prompted me to write about my current favourite podcast, Peter Adamson's "A History of Philosophy without any Gaps". I came late to this series but it has been a real joy to slowly meander through classical philosophy starting at Thales. So far, I am up to Plotinus but, as the holiday season approaches, I am confident of reaching the latest episodes which are just about to launch into the medieval Christian philosophers.
Adamson himself is a very disarming presenter and I like his style of narration, especially the illustrative stories about Buster Keaton and Hiawatha the Giraffe.
Showing posts with label Podcasts. Show all posts
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Wednesday, 2 July 2014
Friday, 22 February 2013
History Podcasts
I used to love listening to Mike Duncan's "The History of Rome" podcast until it finished last year. It was great to listen to someone, an amateur in the true sense of the word, speak about ancient history and I've been struggling to find something like this since its sad demise.
There's Dan Carlin's "Hardcore History" of course, which is excellent, but this is thematic rather than episodic.
However, I've just discovered Kevin Stroud's "The History of English". The style is a bit different from THoR but the content is absolutely fascinating and a couple of times when I've been casually listening to it, I have just had to stop what I'm doing because the lights go on in my head and I can see the connections between the various Indo-European languages that he talks about.
Really fascinating.
There's Dan Carlin's "Hardcore History" of course, which is excellent, but this is thematic rather than episodic.
However, I've just discovered Kevin Stroud's "The History of English". The style is a bit different from THoR but the content is absolutely fascinating and a couple of times when I've been casually listening to it, I have just had to stop what I'm doing because the lights go on in my head and I can see the connections between the various Indo-European languages that he talks about.
Really fascinating.
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