{"id":254,"date":"2007-10-25T15:53:28","date_gmt":"2007-10-25T15:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/10\/more-bbc-goodness.html"},"modified":"2007-10-25T15:53:28","modified_gmt":"2007-10-25T15:53:28","slug":"more-bbc-goodness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/10\/more-bbc-goodness.html","title":{"rendered":"More BBC goodness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, okay we have our problems with so many facets of the BBC, radio included, but there&#8217;s much quality there &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/richleonardi.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/ten-popes-who-shook-world.html\">Rich Leonardi <\/a>points us to a series from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/tenpopeswhoshooktheworld\/pip\/htko4\/\">Eamon Duffy on &#8220;Ten Popes Who Changed the World.&#8221; <\/a>\u00a0You can&#8217;t download, but they&#8217;re only 15 minutes each, so easy listening at the computer.<br \/>\nHe begins, of course, with Peter, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/roman_curia\/institutions_connected\/uffscavi\/documents\/rc_ic_uffscavi_doc_gen-information_20040112_en.html\">describing the excavation of the Vatican Necropolis and moving on from there. <\/a><br \/>\n(BTW &#8211; just listened to the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/history\/inourtime\/\"><em>In Our Time<\/em>, which is about &#8220;Taste.&#8221; <\/a>I really had no idea that &#8220;taste&#8221; was a concept whose origins and history could be traced with such (relative) clarity. 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