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  • Intermediate | Updated 12 Jan 2010 | 8 open episodes

    Presentations and lectures from the 1909 People's Budget Symposium, held in October, 2009 on Lloyd George's landmark budget in 1909, which gave way to significant social reforms.

  • Intermediate | Updated 16 Apr 2012 | 8 open episodes

    In this introduction to ethics, we shall be considering the underpinnings of ethical thought. We shall consider, for example, what it is for an action to be right or wrong, whether we can have moral knowledge and whether freewill is essential to morality. We shall reflect on four key ethical theories (virtue ethics, deontology, non-...

  • Intermediate | Updated 12 Feb 2024 | 53 open episodes

    Each lecture in this series focuses on a single play by Shakespeare, and employs a range of different approaches to try to understand a central critical question about it. Rather than providing overarching readings or interpretations, the series aims to show the variety of different ways we might understand Shakespeare, the kinds of...

  • Intermediate | Updated 19 Sep 2012 | 30 open episodes

    PLEASE NOTE: The 'Great Writers Inspire' project has its own website which features much more extensive, diverse and updated content. Please visit https://writersinspires.org

    From Dickens to Shakespeare, from Chaucer to Kipling and from Austen to Blake, this significant...