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Video and Audio - interviews and recordings featuring Satish Kumar
Talks by Satish Kumar
Various talks by Satish Kumar, recorded at The Resurgence Cantre, Hartland.
Change the Story
A series of 2-minute films in which Satish Kumar shares his wisdom on a variety of topics (January 2019)
Meditation
Satish Kumar leads a short meditation at the beginning of his Earth Talk: Soil, Soul, Society, given at Schumacher College on 15 July 2014.Soil, Soul, Society
Satish Kumar's Earth Talk recorded at Schumacher College on 15 July 2014. Satish's book Soil, Soul, Society is published by Leaping Hare Press.Archive on 4: No Destination
Satish Kumar talks to BBC Radio 4 about his life. (2014)
Renunciation: BBC Radio 4 One to One programme
Ritula Shah talks to Satish about the idea of 'renunciation' in the Jain faith. Satish explains his own journey to renunciation of both the material and the spiritual and why he ultimately rejected it as a way of improving the world. (2013)The Power of Ideas, TEDxExeter
Satish Kumar on the power of ideas and a new trilogy: soil, soul and society. Filmed in Exeter, April 2012 by TEDx.Belief: BBC Radio 4
Ecologist and former monk Satish Kumar talks to Joan Bakewell about his Jain beliefs. (2010)
Desert Island Discs: BBC Radio 4
Sue Lawley's castaway is campaigner Satish Kumar. (2005)
Merlin’s Diary, daily podcast
Barry Durdant-Hollamby and Neil Del Strother talk to Satish about his inspiration, Gandhian philosophy, civilisation, as well as his views on anger, fear and ego - how to overcome them to achieve a state of harmony and peace. (Mar 2013)
Watt Next Show
Dave Hampton talks to Satish Kumar on the Watt Next show, about Resurgence, Soil, Soul and Society and Buddhist Economics. (Feb 2012)
Soul of Education by The Life Project
A short film in which Satish Kumar talks about the current education system with it's emphasis on tests and exams, and the need to introduce a new perspective for the soul of education to flourish.
Satish Kumar inverview on BBC Radio 4 Midweek
Satish joins Libby Purves on BBC Radio 4’s Midweek to discuss how his past as a Jain monk has influenced his approach to ecology. (2008)
The Spirit of Ecology
Here, Satish shares something of his life journey that he says is not so much about its destination, but rather about the evolving spiritual process.
Hear it at Planetary Voices Radio
Slow down, go further
Schumacher Lecture by Satish Kumar.
Recorded live at the Cultivate Sustainable Living Centre, Dublin, Ireland on April 24th 2004 as part of the Convergence Festival.
A Spiritual Imperative
The theme of the Bristol Schumacher Lectures was to investigate the meaning of the word spirit in an age in which materialism has drowned out the deeper meaning of life, and in which we have lost touch with nature. In the process of this undermining of the human spirit we have been discouraged from seeking to cultivate it within each of us.
The Buddha and the Terrorist
“Once upon a time in northern India, there lived a violent and fearsome outcaste called Angulimala (necklace of fingers). He terrorised towns and villages in order to try to gain control of the state, murdering people and adding their fingers to his gruesome necklace.”
