God Forbid

Mother Earth. Mother Mary. The "good mother." Is there a more impossible standard than motherhood itself?
Every culture seems to believe in a mother who is endless. Endlessly patient, endlessly giving, endlessly present. 
In Christianity she's Mary, the sinless virgin, the giving and eternal mother of the church. 
In psychology she's the "Good Mother", always available and calm, never faltering. 
In real life, she's the woman who looks like she's got motherhood handled, but who, if you asked her, would tell you she falls short like everyone else. 
Where does that ideal come from? What does it cost the women who try to live up to it? 
And what does it cost the women who, by choice or by circumstance, never become the good mother at all?
GUESTS:
Cristina Lledo Gomez Senior Lecturer in Catholic Systematic Theology at BBI – The Australian Institute of Theological Education. Author The Church as Woman and Mother
Dr Bronwyn Harman Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Edith Cowan University where she researches Australian motherhood and the "Good Mother Syndrome"
Sheree Joseph Sydney writer, Author of the new memoir Juicy

Your phone will tell you the time, and that number has an extraordinary history. 
And hasn't always been there. 
Time used to be whatever the church bell said it was. 
Time was rung, sung and prayed. It belonged to God. 
Then we put time in a box on the wall. Then on our wrist. Now in our pocket and on our satellites. 
Yet – there’s no expert consensus on whether time even flows from past present to future. 
GUESTS:
Kristie Miller is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney and co-director of the Centre for Time, and author of Out of Time and Does Tomorrow Exist?
Matthew Champion is Associate Professor of History at the University of Melbourne and author of The Fullness of Time: Temporalities of the Fifteenth-Century Low Countries 
This program was recorded on the lands of the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation
Its the third in our History Of... series
History of Emotionsand
History of Reality

Every civilisation that's ever existed has asked the same question: what's actually real?  
Plato made the point that it's more than we can see with our own eyes. 
Then came Newton, and reality became a clock with time. 
Then came Einstein, and time started to bend. Then came quantum mechanics — and reality gets stranger still!
Two astrophysicists go back to the beginning of humanity to ask "what did humans even mean by "real", before anyone had the maths to check?" 
And is there a creator behind it all?
GUESTS:
Geraint Lewis, Professor of astrophysics at the University of Sydney, has spent his career hunting dark energy and dark matter — and doesn't believe in a God at the end of it. His new book is The Shortest History of Reality.
His old friend and former student – now astrophysicist himself at Western Sydney University is Dr Luke Barnes, who works on the very same equations — and continues to believe it points to a creator.

If you hit your finger with a hammer, would you feel it the same way a medieval carpenter did, doing exactly the same thing? 
Well, apparently not. 
We think of our feelings as the most private and immediate things we own. 
Hit your thumb, and YOU know pain when YOU feel it.  
But historians of emotion say that's a modern conceit. Pain, grief, love, loneliness — none of them are fixed.  
They're made, by religion, by culture and science, and most of all by the stories we tell each other about what a feeling is supposed to be. 
Lets look into the history of feeling itself. 
Were the emotions of the past even the same species of experience as ours? 
GUESTS:
Professor Katie Barclay is a Future Fellow in the Department of History and Archaeology, and author of Loneliness in World History  and Caritas: Neighbourly Love & the Early Modern Self
Professor Stephanie Trigg, a Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor of English Literature at Melbourne University. Among her near a dozen books is "Weeping Like a Beaten Child: Figurative Language and the Emotions in Chaucer and Malory."
A/Prof Rob Boddice a historian of science, medicine and the emotions, based at Freie Universitaet Berlin and McGill University, Montreal, is author of Knowing Pain: A History of Sensation, Emotion, and Experience, and Research Fellow at the Uni of Helsinki in Finland.

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