Ghost in the Machine is a radio show about minds and bodies, machines and memory.
It's presented by John Sutton and the Ghost team -
        Tim Bayne, Jean Barrett and Rick Benitez, Doris McIlwain, and Caroline West
The programme was awarded the 2002 Media Prize of the Australasian Association of Philosophy.

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Ghost in the Machine is on Eastside Radio 89.7FM in Sydney, every Thursday from 5.30-6pm.
We're always looking for ideas for the programme. If you can suggest a topic for discussion, or someone to
    interview, please do get in touch! Email the Ghost team here.

Here's what we've talked about on Ghost in the Machine in the last few months. Here is a full list of previous shows. Email us with suggestions about people and topics for the future.

Thursday January 13               Yoga and psychology; Marianne Wiggins' Evidence of Things Unseen

Thursday January 6, 2005     Doris and John: Kinsey and the sciences of sex; Neal Stephenson's science fiction

Thursday December 18       Peter Arnade on iconoclasm and ritual in the 16th and 21st centuries

Thursday December 11        How do we influence ourselves?  Sport and music - David Sudnow's Ways of the Hand

Thursday December 4         Caroline and Tim

Thursday November 25      Andy Clark on the extended mind; Mark Rowlands on philosophy in the movies and 
                                                                            Schwarzenegger's later theories of personal identity ...

Thursday November 18      Rachel and the bioethics team report on the International Bioethics Conference (#3)

Thursday November 11        Rachel and the bioethics team report on the International Bioethics Conference (#2)

Thursday November 4        Rachel and the bioethics team report on the International Bioethics Conference

...                                                   Doris interviews Tom Burvill about Sidetrack Theatre's new work in Indonesia
...                                                                      Joan Kirkby on mourning

Thursday September 23

Thursday September 16         Rachel and the bioethics team (Michael and Ian)

Thursday September 9         Rachel and the bioethics team (Michael and Ian)

Thursday September 2         Rachel and the bioethics team (Michael and Ian)

Thursday August 26

Thursday August 19

Thursday August 12               Jason talks with an opera singer about the 20th-century transition to microphones

Thursday August 5               Caroline talks to John about Empedocles: Love and Strife, and the Philosophy Nights series

Thursday July 29                  Caroline

Thursday July 22                  Jason interviews Helen Irving about politics, memory, and the Australian constitution

Thursday July 15                  Jason

Thursday July 8                    Mat

Thursday July 1                    Jason talks to Colin Clifford about vision and the binding problem

Thursday June 24               Mat McCoy - puppetry and animatronix

Thursday June 17                Jason talks with Stephen Barrass - Listening to the Mind Listening

Thursday June 10                Doris interviews Russell Grigg about psychoanalysis and science

Thursday June 3                    Mix: PET scans of multiple personality; memory deletion

Thursday May 27                    Developmental psychologist Cathy McMahon on the psychology of fertility

Thursday May 20                    Tim interviews Melissa Green about Gestalt perception in schizophrenia

Thursday May 13                     Kim Atkins from Uni of Tasmania: 'can we be friends with machines?'

Thursday May 6                       Tim and John on rationality

Thursday April 29                  Caroline

Thursday April 22                 Caroline

Thursday April 15                A rare interview with Marina Warner about ectoplasm

Thursday April 8                         Mitch

Thursday April 1                         Mitch

Thursday March 25                   Mitch and Bruce on modularity: is the mind like a Swiss army knife?

Thursday March 18                    Mitch Parsell interviews Catharine Abell: how do pictures represent?

Thursday March 11                     Interview with Natasha Mitchell, who presents All in the Mind on
                                                                                    ABC Radio National

Thursday March 4                    Mark Peters, who works in both fine arts and computer science, talks
                                                                                    about surprise in robots, and introduces the Interactive Digital Media Matrix

Thursday February 26            Kerry Sherman talks to Doris about personality and temperament

Thursday February 19            Doris checks back in with Celia Allison to find out how Cecily has
                                                                                    gone down in Oz

Thursday February 12            Doris is just back from Alice, and plays her interview with Narayan Kozeluh
                                                                                about his new gallery there, and changing styles in Aboriginal art

Thursday  February 5            Caroline

Thursday January 29            Caroline and Tim on 'wrongful birth'

Thursday January 22            Doris talks to Celia Allison, a New Zealand artist whose wonderful creation
                                                                                Cecily is soon to make her Australian debut (at the Tap Gallery, Feb 17th!)

Thursday January 15            Tim interviews philosopher Mitch Parsell about neural nets and the structure
                                                                                of the mind

Last updated 17 January 2005

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