To be honest, it's too hard to just include the four episodes that recently moved me. It began with a chance listen on the one of two radios I own. It was a short commute home from the grocery store, and I wasn't finished by the time I got home and had to unpack. Fortunately, I was able to transition immediately to the CBC listen app. When it finished, I realized that I had an episode to catch up on, and another in the future, so I turned to my podcast app and was able to catch up. I sent the links to my email to check when I had some free time. Later, sitting at my computer, and thinking I would present the links in this blog, I took the links to the webpage, and so many of the topics in the list drew my interest. From geometry to race relations, historical figures, authors and popular podcasters all feature with nearly an hour long (or more) of well researched, well edited focus on topics that are current and often hit a deep chord.
I remember when the show was weekly, and tended to the religious. I think the current format has changed with the times, and may be avoiding Christianity as a reaction to its former exclusive take on things, but it fills in the gaps that my narrow (not so) modern upbringing craves. Classics, important historical figures, and challenges to our modern thoughts feature often. I was challenged in my thinking by Irrationality. Now I am listening to the Geometric Order and travelling in my mind to DC and Venice. I am planning to learn from The Death of Leisure. I will never forget the courage of Ahmet Altan, and wish to change the world to free him, and the tragedy of Semmelweiss. I so admire and so recommend regular intake of this important show.
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