In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg, from BBC Radio 4, is consistently smart, in depth and so briskly paced that I'm often too tired to listen to it because I just can't keep up. Melvyn Bragg tends to choose historical or scientific topics, everything from the Great Fire of London to Ediacara Biota, and his invited academics take turns chiming in with their angle of expertise over about forty-five minutes. These programs are done live so there's some variation week to week in the quality but there are plenty of gems in the archive.
Here's a few clips from one of my favorite episodes, on the philosopher Kierkegaard. You can listen to the full episode here.
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