Flonk eewaaanz yyuuhgg.
Flonk eewaaanz yyuuhgg.
I don't mind a Misha as the new Melvin at all. This is good stuff.
[In Our Time] On Liberty #inOurTime
https://podcastaddict.com/in-our-time/episode/216969316 via @podcastaddict

Listen to In Our Time - On Liberty by BBC Radio 4 on Podcast Addict. Journalist, author and historian Misha Glenny presents his first edition of In Our Time, succeeding Melvyn Bragg who retired from this role last summer. Misha and his guests discuss the landmark work On Liberty by John Stuart Mill, published in 1859 and the increasing recognition for his wife Harriet Taylor Mill's contribution. The subject matter of the essay is ‘civil or social
It really feels like the end of an era: Melvyn Bragg is leaving his role as host of "In Our Time". 🙁
Melvyn Bragg has left some really big shoes for Misha Glenny to fill 😬:
“Misha Glenny To present BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time” [2025], BBC (https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2025/misha-glenny-in-our-time-bbc-radio-4).
I think it’ll be fine. It just needs bedding in.
I’m talking about #BBC #Radio4 #InOurTime, with the new host Misha Glennie. Following a quarter century of Melvin Bragg is not easy.
Melvyn Bragg‘s ‘In Our Time‘ has been a regular weekly highlight for decades now. I sincerely hope, it will continue to do so.
But here is a great life lesson from Melvyn himself:
“My week always finishes with a list of phone calls to family and friends. The list has diminished considerably over the past few years. I have lost so many close friends from
childhood, school, university and Cumbria. It’s a sad moment each week when I realise the number of people who are no longer here.“
My farewell to In Our Time
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/my-farewell-to-in-our-time/
I set up In Our Time 27 years ago. I had been shunted from Start the Week to what was cheerfully known as the ‘death slot’, 9 a.m. on Thursdays, because BBC management decided I could no longer present that programme after becoming a member of the House of Lords. I know I’ve said it
Listening to #InOurTime on the Time Machine, I am asking myself whether #AI #LLM users are choosing to become Eloi, are choosing to let their intellects atrophy, by delegating their creative and critical faculties to machines.
In Our Time: The Time Machine (Archive Episode)
Starting from: 00:29:18
Episode webpage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0m30jv4