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podcast1990–present

Moral Maze

Disciplines:
philosophy & ideas

Summary

Weekly panel debate on the ethical dimensions of current events—four commentators interrogate expert witnesses and each other with rigour, interruption, and genuine disagreement.

Core Contribution

Models genuine adversarial ethical debate in public; shows that moral disagreement is often structural, not merely factual; keeps applied ethics in popular discourse.

Key Spikes & Highlights

  • applied ethics
  • contested values
  • media ethics
  • political morality
  • bioethics

Historical Influences

Socratic dialogue BBC public service traditionBritish parliamentary debate cultureAcademic applied ethics

Intellectual Lineage

No conceptual lineage found.

Allied Works

BBC Radio 4 ethics programmingMichael Buerk's memoir

Contemporaries & Peers

The Moral Philosophers Thinking Allowed Start the Week

Minds Influenced

UK public ethics discourseApplied ethics in journalism Panel debate format in podcasting

Intellectual Posterity

Longest-running ethics programme on UK radio; shaped how millions of Britons think about contested moral questions; trained a generation of ethical arguers.

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