Not BBC Radio 4......

but an occasional blog often prompted by items heard on BBC Radio 4

Spot the Difference!

June 2016:

Conservative Prime Minister asks voters for favour: Voters: "Piss Off!"

June 2017:

Conservative Prime Minister asks voters for favour: Voters: "Piss Off!"

Zeno's Paradoxes: Or how to make a mountain out of a molehill.

Concerning BBC Radio 4's "In Our Time" programme, Friday 23rd of September 2016 With: Melvyn Bragg, Marcus du Sautoy, Barbara Sattler and James Warren.

There is paradox only if you confuse the world with its description! Achilles, if he doesn't drop dead, will catch the tortoise but if we deliberately choose to construct a way of describing this episode in such a way that our description could never end, we can only infer from this the theoretical possibility of an unending description of a tortoise-chase, not an unending tortoise-chase, regardless of whether that tortoise-chase be theoretical or actual.