Cigarettes: the most successful product ever - Audio
Cigarettes: the most successful product ever - Audio
Despite five decades of research into the harms of smoking and numerous successful public health campaigns, many people ... Read more
18 Apr 2013
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40mins
Stuff Matters - Audio
Stuff Matters - Audio
Whatever people think about the rapid pace of change of technology, our most fundamental categorization of stuff on the ... Read more
18 Apr 2013
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39mins
Scandinavian crime fiction and the end of the welfare state - Audio
Scandinavian crime fiction and the end of the welfare state - Audio
Scandinavian crime fiction has in recent years enjoyed surprising success world-wide. The region, with its universal wel... Read more
20 Mar 2013
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41mins
Civil Engineers against the double negative - Audio
Civil Engineers against the double negative - Audio
Is a culture of infallibility holding back our engineers by celebrating the avoidance of failure rather than the achieve... Read more
20 Mar 2013
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39mins
Genomics and Healthcare - Audio
Genomics and Healthcare - Audio
Greater understanding of how genetic differences influence disease susceptibility and drug response has potentially impo... Read more
14 Mar 2013
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41mins
By the Donzerly Light: when our ears play tricks on us - Audio
By the Donzerly Light: when our ears play tricks on us - Audio
Almost every song lyric can be misunderstood: famously, Jimi Hendrix’s 'Kiss the Sky' is often heard as 'Kiss This Guy'.... Read more
14 Mar 2013
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40mins
A diet to treat ageing - Audio
A diet to treat ageing - Audio
It has been known for some time that moderate dietary restriction can extend healthy lifespan in a variety of organisms.... Read more
1 Mar 2013
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40mins
Can the Eurozone crisis be solved? - Audio
Can the Eurozone crisis be solved? - Audio
There was plenty of scepticism among economists about the likely success of a common currency in Europe. The immediate p... Read more
1 Mar 2013
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41mins
The influence of Islam on science - Audio
The influence of Islam on science - Audio
In recent years, there has been much discussion of the influence of classical Arabic science on the Western scientific t... Read more
19 Feb 2013
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42mins
Gravity and continuum - Audio
Gravity and continuum - Audio
Within theoretical physics the gravitational force is the odd one out. It is much weaker than the other forces, its math... Read more
19 Feb 2013
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41mins