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It’s been almost 2 months since the Resonance FM radio show went to podcast, and it’s now had almost 4000 downloads and is regularly in the iTunes top philosophy podcasts. Yay!

This is the Top-Ten list, so far. If you don’t agree with it, then you must get a few friends to download your favourites and bump them up the score-sheet.

1. Richard Holloway
2. Alain de Botton
3. Prof Raymond Tallis
4. Julie Burchill & Chas Newkey-Burden
5. Ziyad Marar
6. Julian Baggini
7. Lynsey Hanley
8. Philip Escoffey
9. Christopher Hitchens
10. Ian Haworth

Ones that just missed a place on the list include:

James Randi, Dr Mark Vernon, Prof David Colquhoun, Dr Simon Singh, Jon Ronson (twice), Francis Wheen, Stewart Lee and Dr Ben Goldacre (who will also be next weeks guest).

Robbie Williams And Jon Ronson Journey to the Other Side (BBC Radio Documentary)
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Robin Ince’s…The School for Gifted Children

will be at The Albany, Gt Portland St, on 28th May at 7:45pm.

Guests include:

Stewart Lee, popular atheist co-writer of Jerry Springer the Opera and award winning stand up.

Ben Goldacre, the man who makes bamboozlers quake with his Bad Science column in The Guardian.

Jo Neary the brilliant charcater actress from BBC3’s Ideal.

Gavin Osborn the indie folk strummer and onstage composer for Daniel Kitson

Andrew Collins published diarist and former NME journo.

Simon Singh physicist, journo, broadcaster and author.

Last time there was music and stand up about Jean Charcot’s ideas of hysteria, the man who tried to attain the biggest ball of twine, how a glass eye proved the bigfoot film was fake, what scientists should do if they really wanted to “play god” and that sort of thing (for about three hours).
Tickets are £10/ £7 concession (available at Albany box office or on the door)

On this week’s Little Atoms…

Padraig Reidy and Neil Denny are Joined by Rosie Waterhouse.

Rosie Waterhouse is a lecturer in the Department of Journalism and Publishing at City University and a freelance journalist with extensive experience as an investigative reporter, having worked on the staff of five national newspapers and as a TV reporter. She has twice been a member of the Sunday Times Insight team and worked for the Independent and Independent on Sunday, where she was investigations editor, and for BBC Newsnight, where she contributed to a BAFTA for a film revealing how BSE had spread through the animal feed chain.

Her investigations have included: revealing the existence of the River Companies, a secret network of companies run by the Conservative Party to launder political donations from companies; babies for sale; MPs for hire. After investigating the origins and spread of allegations of Satanic ritual child abuse she was the first British journalist to reveal it was a myth.

As a freelance, Rosie has contributed articles to The Guardian’s G2 section, the New Statesman, the Daily Mail, the Mail on Sunday, the Times Educational Supplement, GQ, The Oldie and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s Search magazine. She has most recently contributed a series of articles in Private Eye on the Satanic Panic. Her television contributions include working as consultant on a BBC Newsnight film on the recent Satanic child abuse panic on the Isle of Lewis, and as research consultant on a BBC Real Story documentary on the Rochdale Satanic abuse controversy.

The usual time and place, Resonance 104.4FM Friday 28th March at 19.00.

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