Ideas that have shaped human history as expressed in poetry, speeches, myth and documents

About Ideas that have shaped human history as expressed in poetry, speeches, myth and documents

This podcast program is my personal effort to address ideas that have shaped human history as expressed in poetry, speeches, myths and documents. The programs will be posted weekly or more frequently depending on their content and the work involved Mostly, but not always, the topics deal with what some people might describe as serious issues, which some might find depressing, unduly taxing on their concentration or offensive to their present world view. Such people are probably better to give this program a miss. The program necessarily addresses existential, political, historical, philosophical, sociological and scientific issues of my choosing and no doubt, loaded with my personal biases. The purpose of is to encourage or facilitate people to think about the issues presented, for which I offer no apology for those who are offended. Some of the literatures (poems, speeches, myths and documents) are also very long, which makes the oral presentation difficult and causes errors. It also can tax the concentration and interest of readers. For that reason, I have sometimes read only part of the relevant literature and summarised the content of the excised parts.

Publisher

Allan Anforth

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

11 Jul 2026

Latest episode

20 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

25 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   20 Sept 2026

   Program 24 The History of Human Rights Declarations

   This program takes up where the program on the US Declaration of Independnece and its Constitution left off. Hard copy for download

2. 

   13 Sept 2026

   Program 23 Poetry on science and learning

   Hardcopy for downloaing

3. 

   9 Sept 2026

   Program 22 The Poetry of the Jewish Holocaust and of the Rohingya

   This program seeks to compare the poetry of these two attempted genocides Hard copy to download

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