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Professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield.

Author of Plato's Republic: A Ladybird Expert Book.

Author of Why Plato Matters (forthcoming Bloomsbury 2025)

Honorary Patron of The Philosophy Foundation.

Advisory board for Plato’s Academy Centre.

World Economic Forum Global Future Council 2018-19 on Values, Ethics and Innovation.

Panellist for 2016 World Economic Forum panel discussion on the 'Future of Education' and closing panel discussion of the conference on 'Staying Human'.


CLICK HERE to watch Angie's ongoing series An Introduction to the History of Western Philosophy. (Also available HERE for Apple devices.)


Philosophy in Practice (Cosmote History)

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CLICK HERE to listen to Angie's appearance on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.

LISTEN BELOW to Angie's appearance on BBC Radio 3's Private Passions:

CLICK HERE for Angie's appearance on Test Match Special.

CLICK HERE to read about Angie's favourite books in an interview with The Reading Lists.



WATCH BELOW Angie and Dr Crosby Stevens explore the philosophical themes of the wall and ceiling paintings in Bolsover Castle, for English Heritage and Google Arts and Culture:



forthcoming public engagement events

7th March 2024: Giving a talk at the Sheffield Branch of the Historical Association on Plato and the Legend of Atlantis

2024 (exact date tbc): interviewee in BBC2 Emperor of Rome with Mary Beard, discussing Marcus Aurelius.

23rd March 2024: Discussing philosophy and children in a free online event hosted by Plato’s Academy Centre.

Interviewee and series consultant for four new films on Roman philosophy and culture by 1895 Films for Opportunity Education on The Making of Rome.


Recent public engagement events

Since 2014 Angie has been collaborating with her Sheffield colleague Dr Josh Forstenzer to protect and increase philosophy provision in primary, secondary and tertiary education; find out more about what they have been doing and why they think it matters HERE.


Interviewee for four programmes on Ancient Greek philosophy and culture by 1895 Films for Opportunity Education: Socrates and Plato; Aristotle; Greek Drama; Heroes and History.


13th February 2024: Discussing love and design at the Conduit Club in London: Love Today: The Keys to Our Heart

12th February 2024: Article in the Times about my experiences appearing a record 26 times on the BBC Radio 4 discussion programme In Our Time

9th February 2024: Interviewed by KCBS radio in San Francisco about the benefits and dangers of being a sports fan, ahead of the Superbowl on the 11th February.

23rd January 2024: 18.00 GMT discussing Marcus Aurelius in a Classical Wisdom online event.

23rd November 2023: discussing the Cynics for ABC Australia The Philosopher’s Zone and podcast. An excerpt discussing Jesus and the Cynic movement was repeated on a Christmas Day ABC Australia highlights programme: Was Jesus a Cynic?

21st November 2023: 19.30 Giving a talk Who Lied? Classical Heroism and World War 1 at a joint meeting of the North Staffs Classical Association and the Western Front Association. Old Library, Keele Hall, University of Keele St5 5BG. To be live streamed and then posted on North Staffs CA YouTube

5th November 2023: An excerpt from the In Our Time discussion of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics was selected for BBC Radio 4 Pick of the Week (item starts 30.42).

4th November 2023: Discussing whether an AI system can be a friend on the Today programme (discussion 8.33—8.40 (1.33-1.40)).

2nd November 2023: Discussing Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics on BBC Radio 4 In Our Time.

16th October 2023: Online discussion of my article Philosophy in the Agora: Past, Present and Future for The Philosopher Magazine.

4th October 2023: Giving inaugural lecture Platonic Proportions: Beauty, Harmony and the Good Life at the Michelis Foundation in Athens, for their lecture series in collaboration with the University of Crete.

5th October: 2023: Speaking on Plato the Athenian at the University of Athens, for the inaugural conference of The Athens MA in Ancient Philosophy.

24th September 2023: Discussing celebrity culture on BBC Radio Scotland Sunday Morning with Cathy Macdonald: https://bit.ly/3tdiPXF (10.05-22.53).

23rd September 2023: Speaking at Senate House, London at the Aurelius Foundation event Stoic Icons: the Legacy of Seneca, Epictetus, Cicero and Marcus Aurelius.

21st September 2023: lead interviewee on CBC Radio Ideas on How to Flourish in a Broken World.

18th September 2023: Speaking on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme about my experiences of appearing on BBC Radio 4 In Or Time a record number of times.

9th September 2023: presenter of BBC Radio 4 Archive on 4 on public philosopher Bryan Magee: Man of Ideas.

27th-31st June 2023: Speaking on the concept of wisdom in ancient Greece at the Wisdom and Pedagogy Symposium at Domaine de Primard.

26th June 2023: Keynote speaker at the inaugural conference of the Association of Philosophy Teachers (APT) atKing Edward’s School, Birmingham.

24th May 2023: Speaking at the book launch of Jane Gatley’s Why Teach Philosophy in Schools? The Case for Philosophy on the Curriculum at the University Of Birmingham School of Education.

12th May 2023: Discussing wine in ancient Greek culture and philosophy in The Verb on BBC Radio 3 22.00

April 18th 2023: Video on Public Philosophy for The Rabbit Holes of Ideas YouTube series, hosted by Leonard Weiss.

March 23rd 2023: Interviewed for the Kyiv Independent about What Good is Philosophy? A Benefit Conference for Ukraine.

March 19th 2023: Public Philosophy in an Age of Uncertainty in Session 6 of What Good is Philosophy? A Benefit Conference for Ukraine. Talk runs from 37’10’’-1.06’35’’

February 25th 2023: Discussing the ethical and political issues arising from the current situation in and concerning Ukraine, for a special edition of Philosophy Takes On The News, hosted by Simon Kirchin.

February 20th 2023: Discussing Plato for the Ancient Heroes podcast series curated by Patrick Garvey (discussion includes the dialogue form, the Atlantis legend, Socrates as a new hero and much more). Available on most podcast apps, or HERE

January 1st 2023 21.30: Interviewee BBC Radio 4 Icon Image, Reflection, Shadow (rpt)

December 31st 2022 20.00: Interviewee for BBC Radio 4 Archive on 4 #TheQueue, discussing the ethics of queues and queueing (rpt January 6th 12.04 BBC Radio 4)

November 28th 2022 14.00-15.00 (online) Discussing ‘How Do You Know If You’ve Made an Ethical Decision?’ in conversation with Fraser Battye for the NHS INSIGHT 2022 Festival, hosted by the Midlands Decision Support Network in association with the Strategy Unit: video HERE

November 9th 2022 Publication of an Ethics Review of the NHS Strategy Unit report Strategies to Reduce Inequalities in Access to Planned Care HERE

November 3rd 2022 The Bloomsbury Handbook of Plato (2nd edition). I have updated my entries on ‘The Symposium’ and ‘Women’ (the first edition appeared as The Continuum Companion to Plato.

October 28th 2022
In Conversation with Melvyn Bragg for the Off the Shelf Festival, discussing his memoir Back in the Day in Firth Hall.

October 22nd 2022 Gave a keynote (online) Public Philosophy in an Age of Uncertainty at the Irish Philosophical Society Philosophy in the Public Space conference in Dublin

October 3rd 2022
Chaired a session on Museums and Technologies: What's Different About Finance? at the IFFM Digitalization and Financial Awareness conference in Rome (2nd-4th October), organized by the Banca d’Italia and the Museo del Risparmio.


September 22nd - 25th 2022
Spoke on Stoicism and the Good Life at YPO in Athens: Stoicism for Modern Life and Business.


September 22nd 2022
BBC Radio 4 In Our Time: Plato's Atlantis Legend.


September 19th 2022
Discussed the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II on Local BBC Radio Evenings (40:35–47:54).

September 12th - 14th 2022
Spoke (online) on Platonic Proportions: Plato, Harmony and the Good Life at the International Symposium: Plato Today!, São Paulo, Brazil: https://youtu.be/4DtVl0VZGoc (2nd part of table 4, from 1:26:09)


September 13th 2022
Discussed fame and celebrity for BBC Radio 4’s Icon. 11:30. Selected by Radio Times as its programme of the week.


August 13th 2022
Interviewed for Jordan News: ‘Philosophy at Schools: Teaching youth how to think’.


August 9th 2022
Flourish FM podcast Episode # 7: Applying the Ancient Greek philosophy of flourishing to our lives today. (Also available on iTunes and Spotify.)


May 21st 2022
Keynote speaker at Ancient Philosophy Comes Alive, the inaugural virtual event from The Plato’s Academy Centre, speaking on Why Read Plato’s Republic?


May 16th 2022
Video on Why Study Artistotle’s Virtue Ethics? for the Royal Institute of Philosophy:


May 16th 2022
Podcast on the experiences that shaped me for the Shaped By video and podcast series for Murray Edwards College Cambridge (formerly New Hall), curated by Eliza Gergely.

February 13th 2022
Discussed sports fandom for KCBS Radio ‘What makes the Super Bowl so compelling to so many around the globe?’

February 10th 2022
Interviewed about the ethical potential of being a sports fan for the Boston Globe.


February 9th 2022
Discussed the Myth of Atlantis for Classical Wisdom:


January 9th 2022
Interviewed about her new advisory board position for Plato’s Academy Centre.

December 27th 2021
Interviewee for BBC Radio 4 Sideways, discussing philosophical approaches to Harmony.

November 25th 2021
BBC Radio 4 In Our Time: Plato’s Gorgias (9am)

November 19th 2021
BBC Radio 3 The Verb: The Pretentious Verb (10pm)

November 17th 2021
Discussed intersectional feminism with The Hobbs Society at King’s High School, Warwick


November 10th 2021
‘What is the Good Life?’ for the Royal Institute of Philosophy:


November 8th 2021
Interviewee on BBC Radio 4 Analysis ‘Boom or Bust’, discussing the ethical issues arising from declining birth rates, and particularly how climate change is making some people feel they should not have children.
(Repeated on November 14th)

October 20th 2021
Spoke on Philosophy in an Age of Uncertainty at the Slovak Philosophical Association at the Academy of Sciences in Bratislava online conference Philosophical Ways Out of Uncertainty.


September 28th 2021
Angie discusses her paper, ‘In memoriam: The who, how, where and when of statues’, which appears in the Journal of Philosophy of Education 55.3, a Special Issue on The Educational Value of Monuments.


August 21st 2021
For Classical Wisdom’s Symposium 2021, gave a solo talk ‘Decline and Fall: Plato on the Collapse of Empires and States’, and participated in a panel ‘Do Empires and States Die Differently?’ with Professors Niall Ferguson and James Hankins:


July 16th 2021
‘The Stoic Verb’ on BBC Radio 3’s The Verb with Ian McMillan.
(Repeat - originally aired November 10th 2017.)

June 30th 2021
Spoke to UK civil servants and officials on What Plato would think of modern democracy.


June 29th 2021
Interviewed by Shayla Love for a Motherboard (Vice) article: The Revival of Stoicism.

June 25th 2021
Discussed the ethics of cryptocurrencies in a piece by Matthew Gwyther, based on a discussion curated by Jericho Chambers for Stifel: COVID and Brexit: Stablecoin – has the horse bolted?

June 11th 2021
Spoke in the Oxford Research Center in the Humanities Image and Thought series:
Indulgence and Restraint: Images of Desire at Bolsover and Chatsworth.


April/May 2021
Two episodes of the podcast Ancient Greece Declassified, about Plato’s Republic Book 3:


April 30th 2021
Plato's Republic: a Ladybird Expert Book selected by Five Books for The Best Introductions to Philosophy:


April 22nd 2021
For Women of Ideas (ed. S. Finn; Oxford University Press), ‘Plato on War’, a self-edited transcript of a podcast episode Angie recorded for Philosophy Bites.


March 25th 2021
In Our Time
on BBC Radio 4 on Marcus Aurelius.

March 12th 2021
“Virtues, Flourishing and Education in an Age of Uncertainty”, a talk for the Virtues in the Classroom conference organised by the Tony Little Centre for Innovation and Research in Learning (CIRL) at Eton College in collaboration with the University of Hertfordshire Forum for Virtue and Understanding.

February 19th 2021
Discussed what Plato, the Epicureans, and the Stoics might say about our current situation with Matthew Gwyther, part of a conversation series curated by Jericho Chambers for Stifel Europe.

January 28th 2021
Talked on 'The Ethical Challenges and Opportunities of Covid-19' at the North London Collegiate School Philosophy Conference.

January 19th 2021
Talked on 'The Ethical Challenges and Opportunities of Covid-19' to the Bristol Education Partnership.

January 12th 2021
Discussed the relevance of Stoicism to turbulent times on Times Radio Breakfast with Stig Abell.

December 15th 2020 (Asia) / January 2021 (UK)
Launch of the Ethics Toolkit for CEOs in new tech SMEs, which I co-authored for the World Economic Forum.


December 9th 2020
Invited to support the University of London School of Advanced Studies’ campaign for the Humanities to be represented on SAGE (Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies):


November 26th 2020
Gave a talk to Warwick University Philosophy Society: ‘Is Ancient Greek Philosophy Any Use in a Pandemic?’

November 19th 2020
Created an avatar of Plato and as him took part in a Philosophy Foundation virtual-reality ‘Ask a Philosopher’ event (on Event Farm’s The Echo) for World Philosophy Day.

November 16th 2020
Gave a fire-starter talk on ‘Ethical Leadership in an Age of Uncertainty’ to the World Economic Forum Community of Chairpersons Annual Retreat.


November 11th 2020
Gave a talk to Harrow International School Hong Kong on Women in Philosophy:

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October 21st 2020
With Professor Cathy Shrank, gave a lunchtime talk ‘Chastening Desire’ to accompany the Millennium Gallery Sheffield Lines of Beauty exhibition of masterwork drawings from Chatsworth House.


October 21st 2020
Took part in an Aspen U.K. webinar on The Future of the (U.S.) Republic.

October 15th 2020
‘The ethics of the pandemic: life or quality of life?’ for Prospect magazine.


New publication:

‘Women, Heroism and the First World War’

Mobilizing Cultural Identities in the First World War: History, Representations and Memory

Edited by F. Pedriali and C. Savettieri (Palgrave Macmillan)


September 29th 2020
Discussed the restrictions designed to curb the virus and personal freedom on Times Radio Breakfast with Aasmah Mir and Stig Abell. The discussion is from 3:36:56 to 3:47:40.


September 17th 2020
Hosted the online launch event for The Philosopher Queens.

Named in the ‘More Philosopher Queens’ section of the book:


September 14th 2020
An interview with Chinese Social Sciences Today (CASS) on the role that philosophy can play in current global rises (focusing mainly, but not exclusively, on the pandemic).

August 31st 2020
Discussed why the ERG Group call themselves The Spartans on BBC Radio 4 World at One (part of Mark Mardell’s ongoing series Brexit: A Love Story?). The item is from 25m to 45m. Specific contributions at 26m50s, 34m, and 41m50s.


August 25th 2020
Podcast of Aspen Initiative UK. June 8th interview with Mary Ann Sieghart on ethical challenges and opportunities arising from Covid-19.


July 15th 2020
A podcast on Ancient Greek philosophy for the How and Why History series run by Dan Snow’s History Hit. Available here.


July 3rd 2020
Spoke on ‘Calling for a Future Without Detention’ for Refugee Tales Online 2020:


June 28th 2020
Essay on the ethics of the lockdown and exiting from it, for BBC Radio 4’s The World This Weekend (11m33s to 16m56s).


June 2020
Philosophy in Practice, a new Greek television series on ancient Greek philosophy and its contemporary relevance. Filmed for Cosmote History by Green Olive Productions in Athens in 2019.
19th
Episode 7: the soul
26th Episode 8: love and friendship

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June 22nd 2020
For the Daily Nous, ‘Public Philosophy and the Civic Duty of Universities’.

June 20th 2020
Spoke on ‘Virtues, Flourishing and Education in an Age of Uncertainty’ at a Zoom webinar on Virtues in the Classroom, organised by Eton College and the University of Hertfordshire Forum for Virtue & Understanding.
Podcast coming soon.

June 8th 2020
Interviewed by Mary Ann Sieghart on the ethical challenges of Covid-19 for Aspen Initiative UK.

June 5th 2020
Interviewed by Matthew Reisz for an article in the THE on what philosophers around the world are doing to assist with the challenges (and a few opportunities) of Covid-19, and what more they would like to do.

May 21st 2020
Helped to compose a letter from the British Philosophical Association to the UK government to draw attention to the contributions made by philosophers at UK institutions during the pandemic so far.


March 18th 2020
Video to accompany the Lines of Beauty exhibition at the Millennium Gallery in Sheffield of masterwork drawings from Chatsworth House:


February 18th 2020
Contributor to A Mathematician’s Guide to Beauty on BBC Radio 4 with Vicky Neale.

February 6th 2020
Spoke in Athens on 'Ancient Athens and the Future City' at the Michelis Foundation conference 'Aesthetics: Architecture, Landscape, Archaeology'.
CLICK HERE to watch the talk online.


January 29th 2020
Spoke on 'Thrasymachus and the Case for Injustice' at the North London Collegiate School Philosophy and Theology Conference.

January 15th 2020
Interviewed for BBC Culture: Why philosophers could be the ones to transform your 2020.

November 2019
Guested on the Prix Pictet podcast, in a discussion about hope.

November 23rd 2019
Moving Heaven and Earth, an immersive recreation of a Jacobean royal banquet and entertainment in Sheffield. Part of the Being Human Festival.


November 19th 2019
Organised and hosted with Dr Josh Forstenzer a major cross-party event on philosophy in schools at the Royal Society of Arts in London.
Centre for Engaged Philosophy event booklet.
Mentioned in the Yorkshire Post (page 8) on November 19th 2019.


November 18th 2019
Interviewed on BBC Radio Sheffield about the Philosophy in Schools event at the Royal Society of Arts in London. 1:18:42 - 1:25:55.


October 27th 2019
13 Questions in the “Change” issue of New Philosopher:


October 22nd 2019
An article in ARGO, A Hellenic Review (#10, Autumn/Winter 2019) about writing Plato’s Republic: a Ladybird Expert Book:


October 22nd 2019
Gave a talk on Plato's Republic: a Ladybird Expert Book, followed by a book-signing, as part of the Off the Shelf Festival.

October 12th 2019
Spoke at the Spirituality and Democracy Weekend, part of the Athens Democracy Forum at Costa Navarino.
12pm: Gave a book reading and talk about Plato's Republic: a Ladybird Expert Book:

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6:50pm: Took part in the Socrates-Confucius Dialogue:

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October 11th 2019
Took part in a panel discussion in Athens at the Athens Democracy Forum on the Collapse of the Traditional Party:

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October 9th 2019
Discussed Plato's Republic: a Ladybird Expert Book at the British School at Athens, followed by a book-signing.

September 17th 2019
Spoke at the Liberal Democrats conference about the dangers of the current prorogation of Parliament:


September 7th 2019
Took part in a panel discussion, “Philosophy in the Bookshop - Bryan Magee: Reflections of a Philosopher”, at Blackwell’s Bookshop, Oxford.



New publication:

“The Erotic Magus: Ficino’s De amore as a Guide to Plato’s Symposium” in Platonism and its Legacy, edited by John F Finamore and Tomáš Nejeschleba. The Prometheus Trust in association with the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies.


July 25th 2019
Discussed the Spartans on The Forum, BBC World Service.

July 18th 2019
At A Future Fantastic Festival in Sheffield, in conversation with Charles Seaford, discussing his recent book Why Capitalists Need Communists.

July 4th 2019
Took part in a panel discussion on ‘Classics in the 21st century’ at Senate House in London.

June 21st 2019
Gave a talk on ‘Ethical Agency and Indefinite Detention’ at the Migration Matters Festival in Sheffield.


June 20th 2019
Discussed the Mytilenaean Debate on BBC Radio 4 In Our Time:

CLICK HERE to listen on the BBC website.

CLICK HERE to listen on the BBC website.


June/July 2019
Philosophy Now:


May 30th 2019
Discussed Plato’s Republic: a Ladybird Expert Book at the Hay Literary Festival:

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May 25th 2019
Interviewed about judging the Man Booker International Prize for Egyptian website ida2at.com.


May 21st 2019
Man Booker International Presentation:

Man Booker International Judges Elnathan John and Angie Hobbs

Man Booker International Judges Elnathan John and Angie Hobbs


April 29th 2019
Interviewed by Christy O’Brien, a trainee journalist at Sheffield University, for ‘Sheffield taking the lead in welcoming refugees’:


April 5th 2019
Discussed Leonard Cohen (and recited a poem by Lorca) on BBC Radio 3 The Verb. Recorded live for the BBC Free Thinking festival at Sage Gateshead on March 30th 2019.

CLICK HERE to listen on the BBC website.

CLICK HERE to listen on the BBC website.


March 21st 2019
Discussed Plato’s Republic: a Ladybird Expert Book at Warwick Books.



March 2nd 2019
Discussed Plato’s Republic: a Ladybird Expert Book with Nigel Warburton at Blackwell’s Bookshop in Oxford.


January 15th - February 26th 2019
Appeared in six episodes of a new Cosmote TV series on Ancient Greek Philosophers (interviews in English):

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Episode 4 – Knowledge & Ideas
Episode 5 – Justice
Episode 6 – The Good Life
Episode 8 – The Soul
Episode 9 – Friendship
Episode 10 – The Legacy


February 22nd 2019
Discussed moral luck on BBC Radio 4 in Archive on 4: Good Luck Professor Spiegelhalter. (Originally broadcast on January 6th 2018.)

CLICK HERE to listen on the BBC website.

CLICK HERE to listen on the BBC website.


February 7th 2019
Plato's Republic: A Ladybird Expert Book
(Discussed in the Economist.)


December 31st 2018
Discussed heroism on BBC Radio 4 Beyond Belief.


November 2018 - A HISTORY OF IDEAS (repeat from 2014)

BBC Radio 4

16/11/2018 - The Value of Conscience
28/11/2014 – How Do I Tell Right from Wrong?


November 2018
Member of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Values, Ethics and Innovation for the 2018-9 term.

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October 20-21st 2018
Spoke at a weekend school The Philosophy of Art in Classical Greece in Oxford, run by Oxford University's Department for Continuing Education.
20th at 15.00 'The Harmonious Life: Beauty, Mathematics and Goodness'
21st at 9.30 'Plato and the Poets'

October 5th 2018
BBC Radio Sheffield: Discussed the new Sheffield branch of Philosophy in Pubs.


September 29th 2018
Took part in panel discussion ‘Curiosity or Certainty: What drives cultural judgement?’ at Names Not Numbers in Oxford.


September 16th 2018
Took the part of Socrates in the Socrates-Confucius Debate at the New York Times and United Nations event the Athens Democracy Forum in Athens:

The Socrates-Confucius Debate was reviewed in the English language edition of the Kathimerini (a Greek newspaper published in collaboration with the New York Times), and was mentioned in the New York Times.


August 2018 - A HISTORY OF IDEAS (repeats from 2015)

BBC Radio 4

27/08/2018 – What is Justice?
29/08/2018 – The Veil of Ignorance


August 2018 - A History of Ideas (repeats from 2014)

BBC Radio 4

13/08/2018 – What Does it Mean to be Free?
14/08/2018 - Positive and Negative Freedom
Click here to read the Independent's review.
20/08/2018 - Why Are Things Beautiful?
24/08/2018 - Beauty and Morality


August 18th 2018
Took part in 'Is the Nation State in Decline?' on BBC World Service's The Real Story with Carrie Grace.

CLICK HERE to listen on the BBC website.

CLICK HERE to listen on the BBC website.


August 9th 2018
'Wake up! Foucault's warning to us all' (on what Foucault might think of social media) for BBC Ideas:

CLICK HERE to watch on the BBC website.

CLICK HERE to watch on the BBC website.


August 1st 2018
Contributor to The Bermuda Triangle Enigma (Channel 5) – Episode 3: Secrets of the Deep.

CLICK HERE to watch on My5.

CLICK HERE to watch on My5.


July 20th 2018
Interview about being chosen to judge the 2019 Man Booker International Prize.

Man Booker 2018 ceremony

Man Booker 2018 ceremony


June 6th 2018
Gave the J.P. Barron Memorial Lecture at the Institute of Classical Studies in London, on Socrates, Eros and Magic.


June 6th 2018
Interviewed for the Irish Examiner: 'Rethinking philosophy for students':

CLICK HERE to read the article online.

CLICK HERE to read the article online.


May 28th 2018
Took part in three debates at HowTheLightGetsIn:
14.30 'Politics and Post-Truth'
16.00 'Our Sins and Our Selves'
17.30 'The Unequal Society'

Politics and Post-Truth With Steve Fuller, Isabel Hilton, and Leanne Wood

Politics and Post-Truth
With Steve Fuller, Isabel Hilton, and Leanne Wood

Politics and Post-Truth With Leanne Wood

Politics and Post-Truth
With Leanne Wood

Our Sins and Our Selves With Christopher Hamilton

Our Sins and Our Selves
With Christopher Hamilton


May 4th 2018
Spoke on 'Euthyphro's Dilemma: God, the Good and the Role of Philosophy' with Years 10-13 at the Philosophy and Religion Enrichment Day at Sheffield Cathedral:

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March 8th 2018
Gave the 2018 Francis Bacon Lecture on 'Nationhood and Nationalism Today: a Philosophical Perspective' at the University of Hertfordshire:


February 16th 2018
Discussed Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Nietzsche on BBC Radio 3 The Verb for an episode on "Return" (repeat from May 2017):

CLICK HERE to listen on the BBC website.

CLICK HERE to listen on the BBC website.



JANUARY 2018

'The Ideas That Make Us' with Bettany Hughes – Series 4 (repeat)

5th – Episode 3 – Narcissism
17th – Episode 2 – Harmony
24th – Episode 4 – Technology


January 6th 2018
Discussed moral luck on BBC Radio 4's Archive on 4: Good Luck Professor Spiegelhalter:

CLICK HERE to listen on the BBC website.

CLICK HERE to listen on the BBC website.