A conversation between Dr Iain McGilchrist, the renowned polymath, and Dr Stephen Blackwood, President of Ralston College, about Dr McGilchrist’s formative experiences at Winchester College, the prestigious British public school, and his subsequent training as a literary critic at Oxford University and his appointment as a Fellow at All Souls. Drs McGilchrist and Blackwood emphasize the vital role of freedom, friendship, and the expectation of excellence in providing students with an authentic education. This conversation was recorded during Dr McGilchrist’s visit to Ralston College in March 2024 to deliver The Sophia lectures for the 2023-24 academic year.

List of People Mentioned in the Episode:

Cicero
George Herbert
John Donne
John Clare
Guido d’Arezzo
Alexander Pope
Freeman Dyson
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Friedrich Schelling
G.W.F. Hegel
John Bayley
Christopher Tolkien
John Milton
Edmund Spenser
William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Georg Chritoph Lichtenberg
Derek Parfit
Thomas Hardy
Oliver Sacks
Roger Scruton

Episode 680 - Filling the gaps