All Episodes

The resurgence of civic duties | Simon Reid-Henry

What is "prejudice" ? | Jessie Munton

Global Public Investment | Simon Reid-Henry

On ignorance and forgetting | Jessie Munton

The empire of democracy | Simon Reid-Henry

The life of the mind | Jessie Munton

Volcanoes and the origins of life | Tamsin Mather

The origin myth of the modern West | Naoíse Mac Sweeney

Humans and volcanoes | Tamsin Mather

Cultural identities in Ancient Greece | Naoíse Mac Sweeney

The power of volcanoes | Tamsin Mather

Migration in ancient Greece | Naoíse Mac Sweeney

Astronomers discovering other worlds | Jo Dunkley

Where does the "witch" come from ? | Anthony Bale

Invisible dark matter in the universe | Jo Dunkley

Margery Kempe: a medieval voice | Anthony Bale

The origins of the universe | Jo Dunkley

Propaganda in Medieval times | Anthony Bale

Aaron William Moore - Interwar science fiction and modern culture

Aaron William Moore - Civilian suffering in war

Aaron William Moore - Soldiers' diaries in WWII

Federica Genovese - Public support for climate action

Federica Genovese - Climate change and international politics

Federica Genovese - Climate change regulation

Ana Aliverti - State power and migration control

Ana Aliverti - Moral dilemmas at the borders

Ana Aliverti - Using criminal law to control migration

DNA-based materials for real world use - Davide Michieletto

How does DNA topology affect living cells? - Davide Michieletto

The living book of DNA - Davide Michieletto

The emotional side of trust - Tiffany Watt Smith

A history of female friendship - Tiffany Watt Smith

A brief history of emotions - Tiffany Watt Smith

Stuart Elden - Foucault, Shakespeare and the question of territory

David Hillman - Greetings, partings and the magic of Shakespeare

David Hillman - Listening to Shakespeare: dreams and reality

Islam Issa - Shakespeare in popular "world" culture

Ricardo Soares de Oliveira - The impact of the extractive industries in Africa

Eugene Rogan - The dynamic of changes in the Arab world

Faisal Devji - How Islam came to be a global phenomenon

Charles Tripp - Revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa

Kehinde Andrews - Race and the global economy

Catherine Hall - A new conversation about the legacy of slavery

Philippe Sands - Closing the book on colonisation

David Hillman - Shakespeare and male and female bodies

Susie Orbach - What is happening to our bodies?

Susie Orbach - The exploitation of the body

Josh Cohen - Loneliness and solitude

Stuart Elden - Thinking about the question of power with Foucault

Peter Salmon - Breaking down deconstruction with Derrida

Kate Kirkpatrick - Sartre, Beauvoir and existentialism

Lyndsey Stonebridge - Thinking with Hannah Arendt

Dana Mills - Simone Weil and the relationship between action and thought

Barry Smith - Wittgenstein and the ambition of philosophy, logic and language

Adrian Moore - Kant and how to live in purely rational terms

Susan James - Spinoza, the philosopher, and the virtue of fortitude

Sridhar Venkatapuram - Health inequalities and social justice

Lyndsey Stonebridge - Hannah Arendt and the banality of evil

Philippe Sands - The Nuremberg moment and the birth of international law

Helena Kennedy - Reconfiguring the law to provide justice for women

Samuel Moyn - A brief history of human rights

Hugh Brody - The anthropologist: acknowledging suffering and redressing the loss

Jonathan Wolff - Loneliness, disability and social justice

Eva Hoffman - Justice after a genocide

Jim Secord - The revival of Darwinism

Peter Girguis - How microbes define life on Earth

Buzz Baum - Looking for the organism that gave rise to life on Earth

Jim Secord - Darwin's thoughts on human nature

Emanuele Coccia - Metamorphosis

Tim Lenton - Revolutions that made the Earth

Susie Orbach - Body distress or troubled bodies

Josh Cohen - The force of anger

Adam Phillips - Helping and being helped: fear and desire

Lisa Appignanesi - Emotions: good, bad and maddening

Edith Hall - What Aristotle can teach us about positive emotions

Lisa Appignanesi - A brief history of extreme emotions in the West

Barry Smith - Wittgenstein and the nature of philosophical explanation

Tamsin Edwards - Being a climate scientist

Mark Burgman - Bridging science and policy

Keith Moffatt - The beauty of mathematics applied to human biology

Patricia Fara - The dawn of state-funded science

Patricia Fara - Marie Curie, Rosalind Franklin and women's roles in the history of science

Martin Rees - Science as a calling

Bruce Stillman - The art of being a scientist

Fiona Watt - What do we mean by excellence in science?

Geneviève Almouzni - Science without borders: Sharing a passion for discovery

Buzz Baum - Being a scientist: journey into the unknown

Roger Hart - Why we need environmental education

Mike Sharples - New ways to learn and teach

Mike Sharples - How technological advances can improve education

Michael Roth - Practical virtue : from classroom to life

Michael Roth - Freedom of speech and freedom to disagree in school and beyond

Caitlin Zaloom - The real cost and value of higher education

Caitlin Zaloom - Renewing democracy by restoring free tuition

Peter Mandler - Dismantling the myth of educating for future jobs

Peter Mandler - What is a good education?

Peter Mandler - Democracy and the desire for more education

Anna Vignoles - The economics of education and the reform of our education systems

Anna Vignoles - Why education inequalities matter and how they can be reduced

Anna Vignoles - Why we should invest in education and how to measure the return