Audio Archive
Here you will find audio files (in mp3 or wav format) of the radio interviews, lectures, and talks given by John Keane.
BBC RADIO 4 3 June 20010	Edmund Burke BBC Radio 4 History in Our Time - Melvyn Bragg, John Keane, Karen O'Brien, and Richard Bourke discussed the work of the eighteenth-century philosopher, politician and writer Edmund Burke.	BBC here or Listen here
ABC RADIO 03 March 2010	The Life and Death of Democracy John Keane was guest of Steve Austin's Evenings on ABC Radio Queensland	Listen here
Radio 2SER FM 26 November 2009	Charisma, Democracy, History John Keane interviewed by Paul Kildea for Final draft, Radio 2SER FM, Sydney	Listen here
24-29 Aug. 2009	Videos and Audios from the Australian book launch tour for The Life And Death Of Democracy	Listen here
BBC RADIO 3 11 June 2009	Night Waves BBC RADIO 3, 21:15, 11 June 2009, Rana Mitter talked with John Keane on democracy's future.	Listen
BBC RADIO 4 8 June 2009	Start the Week 8 June 2009, John Keane was guest of Andrew Marr's Start the Week	Listen
28 March 2009	The 2009 Eric Paine Memorial Lecture 28 March 2009 14:00 - 16:00 BST, John Keane spoke of Paine’s legacy 200 years after his death. A special meeting to mark the 200th anniversary of the death of Thomas Paine, revolutionary democrat and author of The Rights of Man, The Age of Reason and Common Sense.	Listen
29 April 2008	A New Politics of Identity Tuesday 29 April 2008, John Keane was at the London School of Economics, where together with David Goodhart (editor of Prospect), Professor Lord Bhikhu Parekh and Lord Tony Giddens (chair) discussed Lord Parekh’s new book, A New Politics of Identity (Palgrave, March 2008) covering the impact of globalisation on ethnic, religious and national identities.	Listen
BBC RADIO 4 14 Feb 2008	The Statue of Liberty BBC Radio 4 History in Our Time - Melvyn Bragg, John Keane, Robert Gildea and Kathleen Burk discussed the Statue of Liberty. (21:30 -21:58 14 Feb 2008 BBC Radio 4)	Listen
11 Nov. 2007	The strange origins of representative democracy Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations - Aga Khan University. London.	Listen
11 Oct. 2007	The Twenty-First Century Enemies of Democracy Sydney Democracy Forum. Thursday 11 October 2007. 6.30 pm. The Twenty-First Century Enemies of Democracy. Venue: Footbridge Theatre, Parramatta Road, University of Sydney.	Listen
2 Oct. 2007	Despots, democrats and discontents John Keane, Anthony Bubalo, and Niraja Gopal Jayal at the Lowy Institute, Sydney in cooperation with the Sydney Democracy Forum, explored the state of West Asian democracy in a panel discussion held on Tuesday 2 October, 2007 at the Institute.	Listen
ABC RADIO 24 Jan. 2007	Radio National Summer - The French Revolution; a British Problem John Keane was guest of Jill Kitson at ABC National Summer series of talks and lectures. The show was broadcasted Wednesday 24 January 2007 6pm.	Listen
BBC RADIO 4 7 Dec. 2006	ANARCHISM  BBC Radio 4 History in Our Time: Interview about Anarchism with Melvyn Bragg (BBC Radio4 December, 7, 2006)	Listen
ABC RADIO 16 July 2006	History of democracy John Keane was guest of ABC Rear Vision's History of Democracy. Broadcasted in two parts the show was aired on the 9th and 16th of July 2006.	Listen
24 July 2006	What's happening to democracy? University of Sydney - the Sydney Ideas public lecture, 24 July 2006.	Listen
ABC Classic FM 16 Aug. 2006	John Keane guest of Mornings with Margaret Throsby ABC Classic FM, Wednesday 16 August 2006, 10.05am,	Listen
ABC RADIO 26 July 2006	Radio National Summer Thomas Paine John Keane was guest of Phillip Adams at ABC National Summer series of talks and lectures. The show was broadcasted Wednesday 26 July 2006 6pm.	Listen
4-6 July 2006	Does Democracy have a violent heart? Talk delivered at the conference WAR, CULTURE AND DEMOCRACY IN CLASSICAL ATHENS, 4-6 July 2006, University of Sydney. Read the text of the talk here. Audio and Video here.	Listen and watch
ABC RADIO 3 July 2006	Democracy and War John Keane was guest of Late Night Live, ABC Radio National, Australia, 3 July 2006.	Listen
23 March 2004	Transitions to Democracy Plenary session addressed by Professor John Keane during the Symposium : "Democracy: Contested Futures" 23 March 2004 at the Centre for Democracy Studies, Oxford Brookes University.	Listen
BBC RADIO 4 29 April 2003	Fallout at Maralinga BBC Radio 4 programme, Fallout at Maralinga, presented by John Keane, 29 April 2003.	Listen
BBC RADIO 4 6 Nov. 2002	Laurie Taylor's BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed John Keane with Naomi Klein and Neera Chandhoke, concerning the global Democracy deficit.	Listen
BBC RADIO 4 4 July 2002	Melvyn Bragg's BBC Radio 4 History in Our Time John Keane talked about freedom with Bernard Williams and Annabel Brett - July, 4, 2002. Read more	Listen