The BHA Shelley Lecture 2011: The Necessity of Atheism - Then And Now

Ann Wroe delivers the inaugural BHA Shelley Lecture for 2011 on the radicalism and atheism of romantic poet Percy Shelley. Chaired by Professor Richard Dawkins at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Ann Wroe
• Richard Dawkins
• Percy Shelley
• poetry
• atheism
• history
• free speech
• lecture talk lecture

[Deliwio]

Thank you, BritishHumanists, for uploading this. Much appreciated

[PlanetBongoSan]

@valentinus2009 i'm sure there's an interesting conversation to be had about these points but the bad sound prohibits my participation. You sound like you know what you're on about, I'm sure you're dead right.

[PlanetBongoSan]

@kasroa yes I'm going to have to give up as well. its a real shame, to make out her words I have to crank up my system, then when someone coughs its like a tree falling outside. I can understand that to some people it's just nitpicking, but to those of us with an ear for such things, bad sound like this seriously gets in the way of the message. Sort it out , humanists! some humans' ears are more sensitive than others!

[PlanetBongoSan]

British Humanists - spend twenty quid on an mp3 recorder, or £4.50 on a phono-minijack lead to record into your phone from the P.A. system sound desk, and allow such sterling lectures to be bolstered by the decent quality audio tracks they deserve.

[valentinus2009]

Never mind the sound quality––despite Anne Wroe's undoubted distinction as a Shelley biographer, her interpretation of Shelley's materialism is utterly wrongheaded and surprisingly ignorant of the wide range of Shelley's philosophical and theological interests. And no, this is not the usual neoplatonic fall-back, but rather a call for deeper appreciation of Shelley's understanding of Judaeo-Chrsitian and Hellenistic thought, including its heterodox expressions.

[kasroa]

Sound quality is so bad that despite it being an interesting talk, I simply had to stop watching. I was getting a headache straining to listen.

[pghr87]

sound is not good