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How to be a (nearly) perfect grandmother Pod Academy
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How to be a (nearly) perfect grandmother

What are grandmothers for? That’s what Sally Feldman wondered when she first learned that her...

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NHS: A cold Covid winter ahead? Pod Academy
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NHS: A cold Covid winter ahead?

With Covid rates remaining stubbornly high and a huge pent-up demand for hospital care, the UK’s...

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COVID-19 and the geopolitics of health Pod Academy
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COVID-19 and the geopolitics of health

It’s not about individual countries. It’s not about individual regions. It’s not even about...

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The Virtual Museum Pod Academy
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The Virtual Museum

Cautiously, museums across the world are opening their doors. But there’s one place where, even...

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Nawal el Saadawi – writer and activist Pod Academy
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Nawal el Saadawi – writer and activist

The death of writer and activist Nawal el Saadawi has just been announced.  In 2011 Tess...

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Journalism in the pandemic: challenges and innovation Pod Academy
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Journalism in the pandemic: challenges and innovation

Journalism has sometimes been a dangerous profession during the pandemic, but there has been real...

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The dangerous business of journalism in the pandemic Pod Academy
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The dangerous business of journalism in the pandemic

Authoritarian restrictions on the press, attacks on journalists in the streets and more...

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Local journalism in the pandemic Pod Academy
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Local journalism in the pandemic

Local newspapers have been in decline for years, but the decline has been massively exacerbated...

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

Pod Academy’s Chair, Chris Creegan, reflects on Covid-19 and HIV.

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James Bruce: an 18th century Scotsman’s journey to Abyssinia Pod Academy
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James Bruce: an 18th century Scotsman’s journey to Abyssinia

A Scottish Laird becomes Lord of the Bedchamber in the Abyssinian/Ethiopian court and finds the...

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Adventures in Abyssinia – Introducing James Bruce of Kinneard Pod Academy
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Adventures in Abyssinia – Introducing James Bruce of Kinneard

Take a look at The Tribuna of the Uffizi by Johan Zoffany. What do you see? A group of Georgian...

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Masculinity Pod Academy
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Masculinity

What does it mean to be a ‘good man’? With so much talk about toxic masculinity,  there is,...

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Left Populism Pod Academy
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Left Populism

This lecture on Left populism is part of the IF Project’s lecture series, Thinking between the...

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Hannah Arendt – Truth and Politics Pod Academy
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Hannah Arendt – Truth and Politics

“No one has ever doubted that truth and politics are on rather bad terms with each other, and no...

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Making things up: what does it mean to ‘make things up’ in literature? Pod Academy
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Making things up: what does it mean to ‘make things up’ in literature?

Who is allowed to make things up?   What does fiction writing have to do with life? Is a novel a...

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Nervous States Pod Academy
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Nervous States

“We need to get away from the idea that knowledge, expertise and truth are obvious and given.”...

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Divided Kingdom Pod Academy
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Divided Kingdom

Pat Thane, Research Professor at King’s College, London and Professor Emerita, University of...

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The Real Cost of IVF Pod Academy
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The Real Cost of IVF

What is the real cost of IVF?  As Louise Brown the world’s first “test tube” baby celebrates her...

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Putting our genome to work Pod Academy
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Putting our genome to work

This podcast is drawn from a Progress Educational Trust (PET) event called Putting Your Genome to...

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The Alt-Right – a journey into mainstream politics? Pod Academy
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The Alt-Right – a journey into mainstream politics?

Maxwell Ward talks to Dr Lawrence Rosenthal, chair of the Berkeley Centre for Right-Wing Studies,...

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