TPM Radio

Welcome to TPM Radio.

Here you will find a collection of philosophical interviews, debates and discussions, that make use of "streaming" audio technology. In order to access these files, you need to have a sound card and speakers, and Real Audio installed on your computer.

You can download and install the Real Audio player here.

Available broadcasts

• Interview with Ted Honderich

Grote Professor Emeritus, Ted Honderich talks to Jeremy Stangroom about his new autobiography, Philosopher: A Kind of Life, which is set to take the philosophical world by storm when it is published this autumn.

• Jeff Mason's China Diaries - Vol. 1

• Jeff Mason's China Diaries - Vol. 2

The People to People Ambassadors program is a non-profit organization set up by Eisenhower in the 1950's to bring Americans of different walks of life to meet their counterparts in other countries. Professor Jeff Mason was part of a delegation of philosophers who went to China to meet their peers in Chinese Universities, so that they could talk about their respective experiences as philosophy professionals.

Over the next few months, TPM Radio will be broadcasting excerpts from Jeff's audio diary of the trip. In this first extract, in the departure lounge at Los Angeles airport, he talks to delegation leader, Purdue University's Professor William McBride, about their forthcoming trip.

• The Perils of Popularisation

This is a recording of an event organised by TPM, which examined some of the issues involved in the popularising of philosophy. The speakers of Nigel Warburton (Open University, UK) and Simon Glendinning (Reading University, UK). The chair is TPM Editor, Julian Baginni. We join the event as Warburton begins to discuss the three kinds of popular philosophy writing that he has just identified (i.e., original, but accessible, philosophy - e.g., Dennett's Darwin's Dangerous Idea; "sugared-pill" philosophy - e.g., Sophie's World; and straight introductions - e.g., his own, Philosophy: The Basics).