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Wolfson College Podcasts — 67 episodes

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1

Looking back; Moving Forwards: The History of Black Lives Matter

2

If biodiversity is the medicine, then what are its active ingredients?

3

The Experience of Courts: A Tale of Two Europes

4

Pakistan women on the frontlines

5

Spoken memoir of Professor Jon Stallworthy

6

Alexandria in the Roman Empire: Politics, Commerce and Culture

7

Diplomacy for the 21st Century: The Future of the Democratic West

8

Diplomacy for the 21st Century: Expanding the diplomatic toolkit: the further evolution of science diplomacy

9

Diplomacy for the 21st Century: Twenty-first century diplomacy: a new rule book

10

Diplomacy for the 21st Century: An African Perspective

11

The Quest for the Structure of the Ribosome: A Personal Voyage

12

Diplomacy for the 21st Century: An Asian Perspective

13

Magic, Healing, and Ethics in Tibetan Buddhism

14

The Fate of Pakistan - three ways in which things could really go wrong, and reasons for hope they may not

15

Spectacular Diplomacy: Nero and the Reception of Tiridates of Armenia on the Bay of Naples

16

A Stroke of Bad Luck - Understanding Brain Disease

17

Migration and the Metropolis: How ancient Rome stayed great

18

Rule of Law and Democratic Development in Pakistan

19

The Koh-i-Noor: the Real Jewel in the Crown

20

Why the 'Boring Billion' is the most interesting billion years in Earth History

21

What is e-Research? Introducing the Wolfson College Digital Research Cluster

22

The Rhetoric of 'The Roman Revolution'

23

Pakistan is a viable and not a failed state if...?

24

From Memory: Isaiah Berlin, Literary Encounters and Life-Stories

25

Living in a Quantum World

26

Making Science Work

27

Freud's Impossible Life

28

'Containing multitudes': writing about Pevsner

29

The Sun King and his Court: from Rome to Versailles and back

30

Climate change and two concepts of liberty

31

Climate change: making the best use of scientific information

32

Why is climate change so difficult to understand?

33

The public and private ethics of climate change

34

Scholarship Opportunities at Wolfson

35

"Oh, you liar, you storyteller": On Fibbing, Fact and Fabulation

36

The closest exit may be behind you

37

Trying to do more good than harm in health care

38

Where may truth lie? Fiction in memory, memory in fiction

39

What can I say? Secrets in fiction and biography

40

The Work of Music: Music and Mathematics

41

The Work of Music: Music and Psychology

42

All About His Mother: Reading Proust's Letters

43

Sir Anthony Caro in conversation with Tim Marlow

44

The contact zone: the creation of a Roman literature

45

Applied Logic

46

Empire, Empires, and the End of Antiquity

47

War and Civilization Series Lecture 4: War and Liberation

48

War and Civilization Series Lecture 3: War and Pity

49

War and Civilization Series Lecture 2: War and Poetry

50

War and Civilization Series Lecture 1: War and Finance

51

The long hard road to democracy and social justice