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Pod Academy — 65 episodes

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1

Waiting for the world to begin again: a letter from a plague

2

Adventures in Abyssinia – Introducing James Bruce of Kinneard

3

Trump: the first hundred days

4

Class – what is it?

5

Julian Assange: The Wikileaks Files

6

Matching Markets: Who gets what and why

7

Jellyfish: aliens, assassins or adventurers?

8

Adventures in Human Being

9

How to Clone a Mammoth

10

A TripAdvisor for Fertility Clinics?

11

The Edge of the Sky: all you need to know about all there is

12

Marxism and the Oppression of Women

13

Alistair Parvin: Open Source Architecture

14

A Disease Called Childhood: Why ADHD became an American Epidemic

15

New Citizenship Project

16

Civic innovation and the interconnected city

17

Biocode – The New Age of Genomics

18

Can public servants change the face of local government?

19

Aral Balkan on being a citizen

20

Work, Sex and Power – The Forces that Shaped our History

21

Re-imagining local government

22

At the service of the citizen: redefining ‘Civic Tech’

23

Civic Radio: Social inequality and civic participation

24

Launch of Civic Radio

25

Making a podcast about academic research

26

The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos

27

The Bible’s Cutting Room Floor

28

Treating Autism: full recording of EU AIMS dialogue October 2014

29

Ecofeminism

30

The Cosmic Cocktail: three parts dark matter

31

Nuclear energy: a safe bet?

32

The Predator Paradox

33

All at sea: soldiers and slackers in the writing of Geoff Dyer

34

What colour was the 1990s?

35

Counting Backwards: a quarter-century of The Colour of Memory

36

Behind the Curve: Science and the Politics of Global Warming

37

The Son Also Rises: How your surname predicts your social status

38

The Global Development Crisis

39

The new gourmet dining

40

The world beyond 2015: Is Higher Education ready?

41

The Promise of Participation: Experiments in Participatory Governance

42

Getting Better Acquainted……

43

The death of print in a digital age – Part 2

44

Stitched Up: the anti-capitalist book of fashion

45

White Bread: A social history of the store-bought loaf

46

Freedom of Expression Awards 2014

47

The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew

48

Mindwise – can we ever understand what others think, believe or feel?

49

Branding the Nation: The global business of national identity

50

Corporate capture?

51

Boom..oom..mmm: The world’s longest echo breaks record

52

Land grab!

53

Research Bytes – Goldsmiths

54

Behind the Shock Machine: the Milgram experiments

55

Understanding Modern Warfare

56

The Politics of the Visual 5: Things Given

57

The Politics of the Visual 4: Crying wolf too late

58

The Politics of the Visual 3: Music videos – love, music, compromise

59

The Politics of the Visual 2: Street Life

60

Seeing is Believing: the Politics of the Visual

61

Press freedom in South Africa

62

Rational Parliament launched

63

The Heretic’s Guide to Global Finance: Hacking the Future of Money

64

Flexible working: An answer to the changing economy AND work/life balance?

65

Birdsong at Alder Hey