In Our Time (radio series)

Zeno's Paradoxes, first broadcast September 22, 2016 Achilles can never overtake a tortoise with a head start, and an arrow in flight is never actually moving: Zeno of Elea's puzzles from the 5th century BC sound like party tricks until this episode shows why Aristotle, Aquinas and Bertrand Russell all took them seriously. Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy brings the math of infinity, while James Warren and Barbara Sattler supply the ancient philosophy, and the episode leaves honestly open whether the paradoxes have ever been fully resolved. The best gateway to the philosophy strand, because it needs no prior reading at all.