The inside story of the CIA v Russia
The inside story of the CIA v Russia – from cold war conspiracy to ‘black’ propaganda in Ukraine. Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, a professor emeritu...
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In Depth, Out Loud
Welcome to In Depth Out Loud, a selection of long form stories written by academic experts for The Conversation UK. Each episode brings you the audio version of a different story across a wi...
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The 12 best ways to get cars out of cities
What is the best way to reduce car use in cities? Kimberly Nicholas , an associate professor of sustainability science at Lund University, l...
How the future of shopping was shaped by its past
How pop-ups, home delivery and fast fashion go back as far as the 1800s. Rachel Bowlby, professor of comparative literature at UCL tells the...
The discovery of insulin: a story of monstrous egos and toxic rivalries
A tale of monstrous egos, toxic rivalries and injustices behind the discovery of insulin. Kersten Hall, author and honorary fellow at the sc...
Climate crisis: how science fiction can inspire humanity’s response
How science fiction’s hopes and fears can inspire humanity’s response to the climate crisis. Chris Pak, lecturer in English Literature at Sw...
Wireheading: the AI version of drug addiction, and why experts are worried about it
When people think about how AI might ‘go wrong’, most probably picture malevolent computers trying to cause harm. But what if we should be m...
Why there aren’t enough trees to offset society’s carbon emissions – and there never will be
There aren’t enough trees to offset society’s carbon emissions – and there never will be. Yet, Bonnie Waring, senior lecturer at the Grantha...
How a Soviet miner from the 1930s helped create today’s intense corporate workplace culture
This episode of The Conversation’s In Depth Out Loud podcast features the story of a young Soviet miner named Alexei Stakhanov, and how the...
Why the concept of net zero is a dangerous trap
This episode of The Conversation’s In Depth Out Loud podcast features prominent academics, including a former IPCC chair, rounding on govern...
Durex condoms: how their teenage immigrant inventor was forgotten by history
This episode of The Conversation’s In Depth Out Loud podcast features the story of Lucian Landau, the forgotten man who invented the technol...
Two doctors on the frontline of Liverpool's second wave
This episode of The Conversation’s In Depth Out Loud podcast features a report from two doctors on the frontline of the second wave of coron...
Charles Dickens: the truth about his death and burial
This episode of The Conversation’s In Depth Out Loud podcast , features the work of Leon Litvack at Queen’s University Belfast on what happe...
Lockdown lessons from the history of solitude
This episode of The Conversation’s In Depth Out Loud podcast , features the work of David Vincent, historian at the Open University. He has...
What will the world be like after coronavirus? Four possible futures
In this episode of The Conversation’s In Depth Out Loud podcast , Simon Mair, Research Fellow in Ecological Economics at the University of S...
How to model a pandemic
In this episode of The Conversation’s In Depth Out Loud podcast , Christian Yates, senior lecturer in mathematical biology at the University...
Ritalin: a biography
In this episode of The Conversation’s In Depth Out Loud podcast , we bring you the history of Ritalin by Matthew Smith, professor in health...
How a Frenchman born 150 years ago inspired the extreme nationalism behind Brexit and Donald Trump
Welcome back to The Conversation’s In Depth Out Loud podcast , the audio version of selected long form stories based on cutting edge researc...
Infertility through the ages, and how IVF helped change the way we think about it – podcast
An audio version of a long read article on the history of infertility, 40 years after the first baby was born via IVF.
Decolonise science: time to end another imperial era – podcast
This episode of the In Depth Out Loud podcast outlines the importance of finding a way to remove the inequalities promoted by modern science...
How the humble potato fuelled the rise of liberal capitalism – podcast
An audio version of an in depth article about the 18th century Enlightenment thinkers who promoted the potato as a way to build a healthy an...