Grandmothers and ‘intensive parenting’
“My grandchildren are so busy with all their extra classes that I seem to spend most our time together acting as a taxi service.” “When the...
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20 of 300 episodesGrandmothers and ‘intensive parenting’
“My grandchildren are so busy with all their extra classes that I seem to spend most our time together acting as a taxi service.” “When the...
How to be a (nearly) perfect grandmother
What are grandmothers for? That’s what Sally Feldman wondered when she first learned that her daughter was pregnant. As a former editor of B...
NHS: A cold Covid winter ahead?
With Covid rates remaining stubbornly high and a huge pent-up demand for hospital care, the UK's National Health Service faces a tough winte...
COVID-19 and the geopolitics of health
It's not about individual countries. It's not about individual regions. It's not even about blocks. This doesn't work unless we vaccinate ev...
Beyond the Virtual Exhibition
Cautiously, museums across the world are opening their doors. But there's one place where, even during the pandemic, you always get to be up...
Nawal el Saadawi – writer and activist
The death of writer and activist Nawal el Saadawi has just been announced. In 2011 Tess Woodcraft interviewed her at a conference organised...
Journalism in the pandemic: challenges and innovation
Journalism has sometimes been a dangerous profession during the pandemic, but there has been real innovation, too. In this, the third part o...
The dangerous business of journalism in the pandemic
Authoritarian restrictions on the press, attacks on journalists in the streets and more accusations of 'fake news' - it's like a war zone ou...
Local journalism in the pandemic
Local newspapers have been in decline for years, but the decline has been massively exacerbated by the Covid pandemic. Can a new type of hyp...
Waiting for the world to begin again: a letter from a plague
Pod Academy's Chair, Chris Creegan, reflects on Covid-19 and HIV.
James Bruce: an 18th century Scotsman’s journey to Abyssinia
A Scottish Laird becomes Lord of the Bedchamber in the Abyssinian/Ethiopian court and finds the source of the Nile. Like many of his wealthy...
Adventures in Abyssinia – Introducing James Bruce of Kinneard
Take a look at The Tribuna of the Uffizi by Johan Zoffany. What do you see? A group of Georgian Grand Tourist poseurs. But one figure, tower...
Masculinity
What does it mean to be a 'good man'? With so much talk about toxic masculinity, there is, perhaps. a pre-supposition that there is no good...
Left Populism
This lecture on Left populism is part of the IF Project’s lecture series, Thinking between the Lines: Truth, Lies and Fiction in an age of p...
Hannah Arendt – Truth and Politics
"No one has ever doubted that truth and politics are on rather bad terms with each other, and no one, as far as I. know, has ever counted tr...
Making things up: what does it mean to ‘make things up’ in literature?
Who is allowed to make things up? What does fiction writing have to do with life? Is a novel a document? This is the second lecture in the I...
Nervous States
"We need to get away from the idea that knowledge, expertise and truth are obvious and given." This first lecture in the IF Project lecture...
Divided Kingdom
Pat Thane, Research Professor at King's College, London and Professor Emerita, University of London, explores the social and political histo...
The Real Cost of IVF
What is the real cost of IVF? As Louise Brown the world’s first “test tube” baby celebrates her 40th birthday – this seminar organised by th...
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