I am a podcast addict and my current favourite is , with David Runciman. It is about the history of ideas, and Runciman’s mellifluous tones guide us through an eclectic mix. There is plenty of science, including a recent episode on why taxonomy might have been a bad idea. I was sceptical, but ended up partly persuaded.
My favourite episode looked at Gulliver’s Travels, a book I thought I knew. But I didn’t realise that, as well as visiting Lilliput, Gulliver goes to Balnibarbi, a land where its inventors work on wild projects, like how to extract…
