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“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...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The death of writer and activist Nawal el Saadawi has just been announced. In 2011 Tess Woodcraft interviewed her at a conference organised...
Journalism has sometimes been a dangerous profession during the pandemic, but there has been real innovation, too. In this, the third part o...
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 newspapers have been in decline for years, but the decline has been massively exacerbated by the Covid pandemic. Can a new type of hyp...
Pod Academy's Chair, Chris Creegan, reflects on Covid-19 and HIV.
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...
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...
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...
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...
"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...
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...
"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...
Pat Thane, Research Professor at King's College, London and Professor Emerita, University of London, explores the social and political histo...
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...
This podcast is drawn from a Progress Educational Trust (PET) event called Putting Your Genome to Work: For the NHS, for Industry, for the U...
Maxwell Ward talks to Dr Lawrence Rosenthal, chair of the Berkeley Centre for Right-Wing Studies, about the Alt-Right’s unlikely journey int...
Hello, this is Pod Academy. Of late, there has been much talk of sexism, in particular sexual harassment, behind the scenes in the film indu...
A radical vision for arts policy should be at the heart of any progressive government argue Professor Rod Stoneman and Adam Stoneman. Note:...
When you use a SatNav, or check a modern weather forecast, you're using technology made possible by space exploration. Emerging space indust...
Journalism has been called 'the first draft of history', and as a first draft it may be written over, forgotten, ignored. In this podcast, j...
Following the election of Donald Trump, the alt-right has come to play a significant role in American political discourse. They are an upsta...
We appear fascinated with the phenomenon of the woman who kills. In the last year alone in the UK, both ITV and channel 4 have launched popu...
What is the scorecard for President Donald Trump after the first 100 Days? "C minus overall," says Peter Trubowitz, Professor of Internation...
What is the scorecard for President Donald Trump after the first 100 Days? "C minus overall," says Peter Trubowitz, Professor of Internation...
"A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on," said Winston Churchill. If that was the case then, how much...
Why and how should we interpret visual art? With a vast historical sweep - from early medieval art on the walls inside the Basilica of San V...
They say a fish can fall in love with a bird, but where would they live? However, when it comes to fluid dynamics, birds and fish come from...
Always on our smartphones and other digital devices, we live in an expository society, says Prof Bernard Harcourt. The landscape described i...
This is the second in our series on the 2016 US Presidential election, in which Alex Burd talks to Peter Trubowitz, Professor of Internation...
"The American dream is dead. I will bring it back and we will make America great again....." In nine months Donald Trump has stunned the pol...
"We always write - and read - history thought the prism of our contemporary concerns," So why study history? What do we mean by 'history'? T...
How does life work? How does nature produce the right numbers of zebras and lions on the African savanna, or fish in the ocean? How do our b...
Once upon a time, in the land of Great Britain, Amanda woke up to the sun shining on a bright Monday morning. Before she got out of bed, she...
When the gun is replaced by the melody: how does music resist? ‘Even if they don’t have a message, the act of actually playing music itself...
Class is not only one of the oldest and most controversial of all concepts in social science, but a topic which has fascinated, amused, ince...
The internet has long been seen as a force of global connection, But this notion of a global internet has never been entirely accurate. Lang...
Autism is a condition that affects about one in a hundred of us. But few people understand or can recognise it. This can have serious implic...
This podcast is the second in our series on new concert music. New music can be unfamiliar and challenging - this series, written and presen...
How did we transition from candles to kerosene? or kerosene to electricity? What and when were the conditions ripe for energy transitions of...
The films of truly outstanding director Spike Lee take a special niche in American cinema. More than that, they especially enrich so-called...
Science Fiction can often help us understand realpolitik in the real world. Is Tyrian Lannister a realist or a liberal? What would Mr. Spock...
‘Lock them up and throw away the key!’ is something that is often heard. But does locking someone up for committing a crime really work to p...
This is a podcast about music. A podcast about Nocturne. A podcast of a Nocturne inspired by the BBC's nightly Shipping Forecast. Produced a...
Translational medicine is collaborative science that translates work in the laboratory into practical medical treatments - it is sometimes t...