I listen to a lot of audio recordings: as I fall asleep, as I’m walking around town, or while I’m working on things that only need partial attention. So I’m delighted to have (re)discovered the LSE’s [series](http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/podcasts/publicLecturesAndEvents.htm) of recorded public lectures.
These are, with very few exceptions, excellent. The speakers are major figures: ministers, Nobel prizewinners, the top tier of academics, journalists and pundits. They’re mostly very thoughtful, and pitched at a high enough level to be interesting. Some of the [upcoming events](http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/LSEPublicLecturesAndEvents/Default.htm) also look very, very good.