Television
I
have done many interviews and some television presenting, including a "Horizon" on alien abductions and 'The cleverest ape in
the world' for Channel 4. I used to take part in programmes
on ESP, ghosts, and reincarnation, but now prefer to do science programmes, especially those concerned with
evolution, memetics, meditation, and consciousness - as well as the case for the
legalization
of recreational drugs. Here is a selected list.
TV Presenter
The cleverest ape in the
world, Channel 4, 3.9.01 Photos
Horizon "Close
Encounters", BBC2, 28.11.94
Out of this World,
BBC1, 7.10.94
Recent TV Interviews and Contributions
UK:
Channel 4 "What makes us human" interview on memes, plus
imitation games with children, 19.08.06
Discovery Channel, Nostradamus : The Truth,
17.05.06
CBBC, interview and phone-in on sleep and dreams, 26.10.04
BBC2, Weakest
Link Winner - "Boffins Special" edition,
4.12.03
BBC2, The day I died, interview on NDEs, 1.03 (for my objections see
NDEs on TV)
HTV, The trouble with home, interview on haunting, 9.8.02
Channel 4, Richard and Judy, discussion on drugs, 22.1.02
Channel 4, Everyman, interview
on angels, 12.12.00
ITV "Life, death
and suchlike" interview with Geoffrey Milland, 14.11.00
Channel 4, Ultimate
Questions, panellist, 5.11.00
Channel 4, "Big Brother",
comment on sleep and dreams, 4.9.00
BBC, "Sins of the
Flesh" interviews in 2 programmes, 10.9.00; 24.9.00
Channel 4, "Secrets
of the Dead", interview on hallucinogens, 7.8.00
Channel 5, Natural
mystery, interview on Persinger, 6.00
Channel 4, Witness,
astrology 18.6.00
BBC 1, Nick Ross
Show, panel on the paranormal (rec. 2.11.99)
UK Today, Worldwide
TV, interview on The Meme Machine.
Channel 5, Stranger
than Fiction, interview on alien abduction, 12.7.99
BBC, Tomorrow’s World
Plus, interview on memes, 13.4.99
BBC News 24, interview
on memes, 16.3.99
HTV, "The Sunday Roast",
discussion on drug legalization, 17.1.99
Worldwide:
Debate on
Aljazeera's "Frost
over the world". Should religion be banned? 17.11.2006
Barbara Walters special on "Heaven", interview on NDEs,
ABC December 2005
NOVA/WBGH
contribution to 8-part series on Evolution, Sept 2001
Also contributions to:
ABC 2020 (USA),
ABC "Turning Point" (USA), Unsolved Mysteries (USA), various Nova (USA), Good
Morning Australia, The Sci-Fi Channel, Newsnight New Zealand, WDR
Fernsehen (Germany), VPRO The Netherlands, "OverLeven" Belgium.
Radio
I
do frequent interviews for local, national, and foreign radio programmes.
In the past I have often talked about parapsychology, near-death experiences,
alien abductions, and other unusual experiences, but I am now more
interested in memes, evolution, and consciousness. I am happy to talk
about science and religion. Here is a selected list.
Radio Presenter
Thought for the Day,
Radio Bristol,
8, 15, 22, 29 January 2007,
July 9, 16, 30. Read the
Scripts.
Radio 3 "This Meaningless
Life" Series of three interviews with scientists about their beliefs,
7, 8 and 9.12.00
LISTEN BBC
Radio 3 - speech and transcript
1. Interview with Brother
Guy Consolmagno, Vatican astronomer. Transcript Meaningless
Life 1
Radio 4 "A Place
of Silence", 3.2.98 and 8.2.98. A half-hour documentary about
the Maenllwyd, a retreat
house in rural Wales.
Radio 4 "All in
the Mind", 7 and 12.10.97
Radio 4
"Action/Reaction"
Chair of panel for 5 science programmes.
17.9.97 -
19.10.97
3
series of 8 features on BBC Radio 4, "All in the Mind", May-June
1989; Jan-Mar 1990; Mar-May 1991
Radio Music and
Interviews
Castaway on Desert
Island Discs BBC Radio 4, 3.5.98 and 8.5.98
Access All Areas,
Radio Bristol,
26.3.07. Guest on Me and My Music - the three
songs I chose were Circle, by Edie Brickell, Dies Irae from
Verdi's Requiem, and A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procul Harum
Classic Fm Australia, with
Margaret Throsby, 20.8.04.
See my
choice of music.
Recent Radio Interviews
UK: (excluding local radio)
BBC Radio Five Live Discussion on the
Pope. 17.04.08
BBC Radio 2
Jeremy Vine show.
Discussion on the Pope. 17.04.08
BBC Radio 4 "What's the point of the archbishop?"
Listen again.
4 March 2008
BBC Radio 4 Discussion on meditation, on
"Beyond
Belief" 7.01.2008
BBC Radio 4 "Jon
Ronson on... waking up from a dream" (in my case changing my
mind about the paranormal) 05.06.2007, 23.00.
BBC Radio 4, "A
good read" - I chose
Sam Harris "The end of faith", 24.10.06
BBC Radio 2,
Jeremy Vine show,
the expressions of faith, 16.10.06
BBC Radio 4,
Sunday, discussion on religious experiences, 3.9.2006
BBC Radio 2,
Jeremy Vine show,
the (non) effects of prayer, 03.08.06
BBC Radio 3 "Belief".
A half-hour interview with Joan Bakewell, 10.04.06
BBC Radio 4 "Analysis"
on humanism. 16.03.06.
BBC Radio 4 "Today", discussion
on whether there is a philosophical equivalent to Darwin's natural
selection for species, 13.02.06.
BBC Radio 4 PM,
discussion on the drug Ketamine, 14.7.05.
BBC Radio Wales, discussion on drugs,
10.6.05
BBC Radio 2, Radio 2's Jeremy
Vine show, discussion
on drugs, 25.5.05
BBC Radio 5 Live, discussion on
coincidences, 27.04.05
BBC Radio 4, “Sunday” discussion on
the brain and religious experience, for Easter, with John Bowker,
27.3.05. Listen
BBC Radio 4, "From this moment on -
the first trip". Interview on LSD, 1.1.05
BBC Radio 4, "The Eureka years: 1938",
interview on LSD with Adam Hart-Davis, 30.10.04
BBC Radio 5 Live, interview on drug use,
1.8.04
BBC Radio 4, "Beyond
Belief", discussion on religion without
God, 23.2.04
BBC Radio 4, “Feedback” discussion on
“sex” and “gender”, 13.02.04
BBC Radio 4, "Inspiration"
Science Quiz, with Adam Hart-Davis and Louis Wolpert, 10.12.03 and
7.1.04
Radio 4, "You and yours" - why I
support legalization of drugs,
14.10.03
BBC Radio 4, “Beyond Belief”, discussion on happiness,
4.8.03
BBC Radio 4, "Off
the page", scripted piece on memes, with discussion, 6.8.00
BBC Radio 4, "Today"
interview with Geoffrey Miller on evolution, 1.5.00
BBC Radio 4, "Off
the page", scripted piece on memes, and discussion on the Internet,
6.8.00
BBC Radio 4, "Today"
interview with Geoffrey Miller on evolution, 1.5.00
BBC Radio 4, "Today"
interview on the future of technology, 5.11.99
Radio Scotland,
"Being Human; 4. The end of evolution", 18.8.99
Radio Scotland,
"Being Human; 2. Obsessions and dreams", 4.8.99
BBC Radio Scotland,
The Usual Suspects, interview on memes, 15.4.99
BBC Radio 4, Q and
A, science and the soul, 18.3.99
BBC Radio 4 Woman’s
Hour, memes, 3.3.99
BBC Scotland, Colin
Bell Show, interview on memes, 3.2.99
BBC Radio 4,
Frontiers, interview on blindsight, 20.1.99
Worldwide:
The Sci Phi Show - Outcast
#8, 21.08.06. Interview on Memes with Jason Rennie. Listen
here.
Radio New Zealand, Saturday Morning with
Kim Hill, 22.07.2006.
Newstalk, Dublin, Ireland, discussion on drugs, 9.6.2005
ABC Australia, debate on consciousness with Dave Chalmers and Paul
Davies, in Sydney 28.8.04
http://abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/stories/2004/1183559.htm and 4.9.04 http://abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/stories/2004/1184056.htm
Classic Fm Australia, interview and choice of music with
Margaret Throsby, 20.8.04. Details of my choice of music can be found
at
http://www.abc.net.au/classic/daily/stories/s1151250.htm
Radio Netherlands, Vox Humana, interview on memes for documentary
“Seducing the mind”, 9.3.2004
Radio New Zealand, interview on the Internet, 30.10.01
Sveriges Radio P1, monologue on memes (recorded Tucson, April 2002)
Johannesburg, South Africa,
"Believe it or not" discussion and phone-in on The Meme Machine,
4.6.00
Johannesburg, South
Africa, "Patricia’s People", interview on The Meme Machine,
10.3.00
ABC (Australia),
‘Late Night Live’ interview on The Meme Machine, 27.10.99
Radio New Zealand,
Sunday Edition, interview on The Meme Machine, 20.6.99
Radio 3, Belgium,
interview on The Meme Machine, 6.99
ABC (Australia),
The Science Show, interview on memes, (recorded 25.5.99)
National Public
Radio, USA, Talk of the Nation, discussion and phone in with Robert
Wright, on The Meme Machine, 20.5.99
BBC World Service,
interview on sleep paralysis, 19.4.99
Science Talk, Pasadena,
discussion and phone-in on memes, 21.4.99
Radio PR Perth,
Australia, discussion on memes, 25.3.99
Podcasts
Is God a dangerous delusion? A debate with Alister McGrath at
Bristol University, 13.11.08
The
Reasoning Show, discussion with David Quinn and Dan Rowden, on
parapsychology, consciousness, OBEs and more. May 2007
Guardian Unlimited
Science
podcasts. Conversations on Consciousness 23 April 2007
Darwin
Day Lecture "Darwin's Meme: On the origin of culture by means of natural
selection" , , University of Central Lancashire,
12.02.07 Abstract
Skeptico Interview on
consciousness and the paranormal. 5
March 2007
audio
Point of
Inquiry discussion with D.J. Grothe on science, belief and
naturalism, 15 December 2006
The Sci Phi Show -
Outcast #8, Interview on Memes, 21 August 2006
The
Future of Memetics audio of a lecture given at
Pop!Tech 2005
WIE Unbound
(What is Enlightenment), "Does consciousness exist?" an interview
with Craig Hamilton about consciousness and spirituality. November
2004
Multi-Media - CD-ROMs
Encarta, British
version, entry for Parapsychology,1996 and 2004
The Unexplained,
First Information Group (interview 23.1.96)
Eve, Real World Multi
Media, November 1995
Of Monsters and Miracles,
Interactive Designs Ltd., October 1995
Ghosts, Media Design interactive,
July 1995
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