PODULARITY

On Wednesday 16th December 2009, Trafalgar Square will host a free feast of biblical proportions: a modern day Feeding the 5000. In this short film, Tristram Stuart, author of Waste, explains the problem – and outlines some solutions.

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Here’s the first of the videos I’ve made with Faber archivist, Robert Brown. In it, he introduces us to a wartime cookery book, Meat Dishes without Coupons, which contains recipes only fit for the strongest of modern stomachs.
You may sense a bad pun lurking in the title above. Click on the video below to discover […]

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 Mary Beard: Pompeii [31:10m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

How easy is it to get an insight into the life of the ancient Romans from a visit to the remains of Pompeii today? How much of what we see is even Roman, and how much is recent reconstruction?
What did the Romans really think about sex? And what did they believe in a world on […]

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 Raymond Tallis: Hunger [16:37m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

The first Podularity podcast of 2009 is an interview with polymath Raymond Tallis about his most recent book, Hunger, which appears in the Art of Living series from Acumen Publishing.
The Times has described Tallis as “the Lennox Lewis of the intellectual world - a formidable heavyweight” and, as you might expect from such a wide-ranging […]

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Here’s a link to the Faber podcast I did just before Christmas with Kathleen Burk and Michael Bywater about their book, Is this Bottle Corked?, in which they explore the “secret life of wine”.
Listen to it and not only will you discover how to tell with confidence when a bottle is corked, you’ll also discover […]

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