Podcasts by Paper Radio: AM: Non-fiction
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Changes Again from 2017-11-07T10:24:52
When we talk about the difference between hearing and listening, or between looking and seeing, what is that actual difference? Is it about recognising, and matching something with what you already...
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Have We Met? from 2015-04-20T04:19:27
What do actor Brad Pitt, neuroscientist Oliver Sacks and science commentator Dr Karl Kruszelnicki have in common? Let’s just say: you might not know it if you saw it. Sonja Dechian looks into what’...
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A Shortage of Santas from 2015-03-10T04:11:41
Surviving a trip to the shopping centre at Christmas time is enough to test the patience of a saint. Imagine, then, the annual suffering of your local Santa Claus. Take a trip behind the tinsel to ...
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Deliberation from 2014-10-29T11:27:55
In a time of repetition and assertion, repetition and assertion, questions have become rhetorical and answers unrelated. The pioneers of this practice? The residents of the fourth estate – and yes,...
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Noise to a Minimum from 2014-08-14T07:39:56
Once the home of the ubiquitous KEEP QUIET sign and the archetypal shushers, libraries now serve as repurposed meeting places, infotech zones, and speakeasies. The contemporary hum of incidental no...
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The Isolation-Solitude-Confinement-Happiness-Freedom Domain from 2014-07-09T07:56:06
A day spa isn’t the first place you’d expect to find a think tank, and yet it’s here that Toby Fehily finds himself stepping into a darkened capsule filled with warm, salty water....
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The Cosmic Frequency from 2011-07-07T15:33:30
Before the likes of Skype and Twitter, curious people built and operated amateur ‘ham’ radios in order to connect with other curious people around the world. The Cosmic Frequency tells ...
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