# The Living Past: History's Role in Our Present Work Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/goodwill-meditation-group-6742439/the-living-past-history-s-role-in-our-present-work Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/goodwill-meditation-group-6742439/the-living-past-history-s-role-in-our-present-work.md Podcast: [Goodwill Meditation Group](https://stenobird.com/podcast/goodwill-meditation-group-6742439) Published: 2024-08-28T17:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://share.transistor.fm/s/d4bac2cf Audio file: https://media.transistor.fm/d4bac2cf/2d9a6a96.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/goodwill-meditation-group-6742439/episodes/the-living-past-history-s-role-in-our-present-work Duration seconds: 3959 ## Resource Kimberley Riley is a professor of History who has taught at the university as well as secondary level; she has done various work on literacy issues and is currently involved in the Touchstones Discussion Project which seeks to develop creative listening and group discussion skills in both adults and children. In this webinar, Kim speaks on the importance of history’s ‘living’ influence on the present and future, and its role as a factor in the worldwide effort to address and resolve humanity’s most pressing problems. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/goodwill-meditation-group-6742439/episodes/the-living-past-history-s-role-in-our-present-work/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/goodwill-meditation-group-6742439/the-living-past-history-s-role-in-our-present-work.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.