Dumbed down? Not Melvin :-)

BBC Radio 4's "In Our Time", hosted by Melvin Bragg, is far and away my favourite (always streamed across the net, but you get the idea) radio program. Where else would you get a discussion of the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics mixed with depictions of Hell (a much more modern notion than many might think) next to an examination of anarchy (also a much misunderstood ideal, being more Semco than Sodom) near by the Abbasid Caliphs and, last but never least, Greek comedy.

Well worth the licence fee :-)