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Unearthing stories from the world of academia.
Listen to the full series by searching and following 'The Making of One Nation' (click here for Spotify or Apple .) Nearly thirty years on,...
Search for "The Making of One Nation" and follow now. From a fish and chip shop in regional Queensland to the heart of Australian politics:...
In November, six Democratic lawmakers recorded a video directed at members of the US military and intelligence agencies. In it, they issued...
The list of people Donald Trump has punished or threatened to punish since returning to office is long. It includes the likes of James Comey...
In democratic systems, the courts are a vital check on a leader’s power. They have the ability to overturn laws and, in Donald Trump’s case,...
Donald Trump has sounded the alarm, over and over again, that the United States is facing an “invasion” by dangerous gang members. He blames...
Every autocrat needs a clan of loyalists, strategists, masterminds – these are the figures behind the scenes pulling the strings. They’re un...
We used to have a pretty clear idea of what an autocrat was. History is full of examples: Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, along wit...
We used to have a pretty clear idea of what an autocrat was. History is full of examples: Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, along wit...
Every day that he was locked up in a scam compound in Southeast Asia, George thought about how to get out. "We looked for means of escaping,...
A few weeks after Ben Yeo travelled to Cambodia for what he thought was a job in a casino, he found himself locked up in a padded room. “It’...
Scam factories is a special three-part series taking you inside Southeast Asia's brutal fraud compounds. Hundreds of thousands of people are...
The neglect of working-class voters in the past few decades has had profound consequences for British political life. Disillusioned with the...
After the 2024 election, the British parliament looks very different, with a large Labour majority for the first time in more than a decade....
In the third part of Know Your Place: what happened to class in British politics , we explore how class is defined and measured, and how the...
In the second episode of Know Your Place: what happened to class in British politics , host Laura Hood, senior politics editor at The Conver...
In the first episode of our new podcast series Know Your Place: what happened to class in British politics , host Laura Hood, senior politic...
The relationship between class and political preference in Britain used to be clear cut – Labour for the working class, the Conservatives fo...
We’re changing our name, from The Anthill, to The Conversation Documentaries! Over the last few years we’ve used The Anthill podcast to run...
The quest for a theory of everything – explaining all the forces and particles in the universe – is arguably the holy grail of physics. Whil...
What’s the difference between a living collection of matter, such as a tortoise, and an inanimate lump of it, such as a rock? They are, afte...
It is hard to shake the intuition that there's a real and objective physical world out there. If I see an umbrella on top of a shelf, I assu...
Interest in the multiverse theory, suggesting that our universe is just one of many, has spiked since the movie Everything Everywhere All At...
Imagine a universe with extremely strong gravity. Stars would be able to form from very little material. They would be smaller than in our u...
Without a sense of time, leading us from cradle to grave, our lives would make little sense. But on the most fundamental level, physicists a...
There are many competing theories about what causes Alzheimer's disease. For more than 30 years, Ruth Itzhaki has been accumulating evidence...
Dementia doesn’t just affect older people. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a form of dementia that athletes from a whole range of...
Scientists have been doing an array of regular health checks on the same group of people since they were born in 1946 – the world's longest...
Uncharted Brain: decoding dementia is a new series from The Conversation exploring new research unlocking clues to the ongoing mystery of ho...
A good negotiation is supposed to leave everyone feeling a little unsatisfied. So what happened at the world's biggest one – over the future...
Locked out of conferences and company boardrooms, young people have tried to influence the international response to the climate crisis with...
In the shift away from fossil fuels, how do countries make sure not to widen inequalities in the process? In part three of our series Climat...
In part two of Climate Fight: the world’s biggest negotiation , we’re talking to experts about the grand goal of the negotiations: reaching...
In the first episode of our new series Climate fight: the world's biggest negotiation , we're talking about climate finance – money pledged...
How will we actually tackle the climate crisis? And who gets to decide? As Glasgow gets ready to hold the COP26 climate summit in November,...
The 2008 financial crisis resulted in the worst global recession since the second world war. The collapse of US investment bank Lehman Broth...
In this fifth episode of Recovery , a series from The Anthill Podcast exploring key moments in history when parts of the world recovered fro...
In this fourth episode of Recovery , a series from The Anthill Podcast exploring key moments in history when the world recovered from a majo...
In this third episode of Recovery , we’re looking at what happened after the combined shocks of the Spanish flu and world war one. It was ca...
In this second episode of Recovery , a series from The Anthill Podcast exploring key moments in history when the world recovered from a majo...
Welcome to Recovery, a new series from The Anthill podcast, exploring key moments in history when the world recovered from a major crisis or...
We all want the global recovery from the coronavirus pandemic to be swift and painless. But history tells us that isn’t always possible. Whe...
A number of conspiracy theories have sprung up in relation to the coronavirus pandemic. The false idea that the virus is somehow linked to t...
Conspiracy theories might be entertaining but they can also be dangerous. Sadly, what often starts off as a bit of fun can turn sour quite q...
Part four of the Expert guide to conspiracy theories from The Anthill podcast explores whether the internet has been a game changer in helpi...
How are the origins of the French Revolution connected with Beyoncé, Jay Z and Rihanna? The answer lies with one of the world's most mysteri...
Polls show that most people believe in at least one conspiracy theory. Considering the number of conspiracy theories there are, perhaps this...
There are a lot of conspiracy theories out there. Some are bizarre – like the idea that Elvis faked his own death. Or that Britain’s royal f...
Conspiracy theories no longer feel like a fringe phenomenon, with people claiming that Elvis isn’t dead or the royal family are shape-shifti...
Medicine made for you is a series from The Anthill , a podcast from The Conversation . Across three episodes we're taking a deep dive into t...