Philosophy of History (1948) – Michael Oakeshott Association

In 1948 Michael Oakeshott made a radio broadcast about the philosophy of history on the BBC’s University Program. Leslie Marsh obtained permission from the BBC to play the broadcast at the MO Association’s inaugural conference in 2001 and to make it available on our web site.

Hence, available once again for you to download are the transcript of the broadcast and the following audio files.

First lines in .mp3 format (570 Kb)
First lines in .wav format (6.12 Mb)
Later lines in .mp3 format (719 Kb)
Later lines in .wav format (7.73 Mb)
Full broadcast (.mp3 only, 11.8 Mb)