Audio and Video
Watch a range of pre-recorded seminars and promotional videos related to Bentham and the Bentham Project, or listen to podcasts and radio shows about Bentham and his philosophy.
Audio
- The Greatest Good - a UCL podcast series exploring Bentham’s intellectual legacy
- Jeremy Bentham on the Bright Club podcast
- Jeremy Bentham: Prophet of Secularism
- Transcribe Bentham on Spectrum, Deutsche-Welle World
- BBC Radio play about Bentham
- Jeremy Bentham on the Philosophy Bites podcast
- BBC Radio 4 feature on Transcribe Bentham and the Pantopticon Pie
Videos
The Greatest Good: Bentham’s defence of sexual liberty
- Featuring Professor Philip Schofield
Escape from Australia: A Convict’s Tale
- Featuring Dr Tim Causer
- Produced and Directed by Robert Eagle for UCL News
Transcribe Bentham
- Presented by Dr Valerie Wallace and featuring Professor Philip Schofield, Dr Michael Quinn, and Dr Tim Causer
- Produced for the UCL Bentham Project
- Filmed and directed by Matt Aucott
Jeremy Bentham: Man and Myth
- Featuring Professor Philip Schofield, Director of the Bentham Project
- Produced for the UCL Bentham Project
- Filmed and directed by Matt Aucott
Mini-lecture: Bentham’s Corpse and Corpus
- Professor Philip Schofield explains and explodes some of the myths surrounding Jeremy Bentham, whose corpse resides in UCL’s South Cloisters, and explores the jurist, philosopher and legal and social reformer’s remarkable life and work.
Prix Ars Electronica: Digital Communities Winners’ Forum
- Dr Tim Causer introduces Transcribe Bentham, which received an Award of Distinction in the Digital Communities category of the 2011 Prix Ars Electronica, the world’s foremost digital arts competition.
Adventures in Public Engagement
- In May 2011, the Bentham Project held three public engagement events in London (including a guided walk) to highlight its work, and engage the public with Bentham’s life and work.
- Produced for the UCL Bentham Project
- Narrator: Mackenzie Thorpe
- Camera: Matt Aucott and Phil Mason
- Sound: Desmond V. Walker
- Produced and directed by Matt Aucott
UCL Institute for Global Health Symposium
- The UCL Institute for Global Health’s (IGH) 15th symposium was entitled ‘The Pleasures of the Bed: Jeremy Bentham on Sex, Population & Happiness’.
- Featuring Professor Philip Schofield and Dr Michael Quinn.
- Watch the proceedings of the Symposium.
Audio
The Greatest Good
- The Greatest Good is a UCL Press Play podcast series which features Professor Philip Schofield in conversation with UCL academics about their research and its relation to Bentham’s thought.
- Visit the UCL Press Play website or listen to the podcast on Soundcloud.
Jeremy Bentham on the Bright Club podcast
- Dr Valerie Wallace and comedian Helen Keen speculate about what philosopher Jeremy Bentham might have thought about call centres.
- Listen to the interview or subscribe to the podcast in iTunes.
- This podcast is supported by the Wellcome Trust.
Transcribe Bentham on Spectrum, Deutsche-Welle World
- Professor Philip Schofield, Dr Valerie Wallace, and Dr Tim Causer talk about Transcribe Bentham for Spectrum on February 1st 2011.
- Listen to the interview.
BBC Radio play about Bentham
- New recording of a programme first broadcast on Sunday 4th April 1937.
- Written by Norah Richardson and produced by Catherine Fuller.
- Set during Bentham’s time at Forde Abbey.
- Download the recording (53 minutes).
Jeremy Bentham on the Philosophy Bites podcast
- Professor Philip Schofield’s discusses Bentham’s Utilitarianism.
- Listen to the podcast.
BBC Radio 4 feature on Transcribe Bentham and the Pantopticon Pie
- Dr Tim Causer, Professor Melissa Terras, and Dr Michael Quinn discuss Bentham’s ideas and the work of Transcribe Bentham.
- Chef Fergus Henderson of St John Smithfield cooks a pie from one of Bentham’s Panopticon recipes.
- Listen to a recording of the feature.