Pod Academy

This is a podcast about music.  A podcast about Nocturne.  A podcast of a Nocturne inspired by the BBC’s nightly Shippin... Read more

The films of truly outstanding director Spike Lee take a special niche in American cinema. More than that, they especial... Read more

How good are we at understanding each other? Other people are complicated,  so when we try to guess what they’re thinkin... Read more

What does it mean to be a ‘good man’? With so much talk about toxic masculinity,  there is, perhaps. a pre-supposition t... Read more

The East India Company was in existence for over 250 years –  from 1600-1858.  It was the biggest corporation in world h... Read more

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

‘Lock them up and throw away the key!’ is something that is often heard.  But does locking someone up for committing a c... Read more

A Scottish Laird becomes Lord of the Bedchamber in the Abyssinian/Ethiopian court and finds the source of the Nile. Like... Read more

Youth unemployment frequently makes it into the headlines.  It is an issue that many young people here in the UK – and e... Read more

Where once public health was about clean water supplies and infectious diseases it is now mental health – and in particu... Read more

This lecture on Left populism is part of the IF Project’s lecture series, Thinking between the Lines: Truth, Lies and Fi... Read more

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

“No one has ever doubted that truth and politics are on rather bad terms with each other, and no one, as far as I. know,... Read more

Who is allowed to make things up?   What does fiction writing have to do with life? Is a novel a document? This is the s... Read more

“We need to get away from the idea that knowledge, expertise and truth are obvious and given.” This first lecture in the... Read more

Pat Thane, Research Professor at King’s College, London and Professor Emerita, University of London, explores the social... Read more

What is the real cost of IVF?  As Louise Brown the world’s first “test tube” baby celebrates her 40th birthday – this se... Read more

This podcast is drawn from a Progress Educational Trust (PET) event called Putting Your Genome to Work: For the NHS, for... Read more

Maxwell Ward talks to Dr Lawrence Rosenthal, chair of the Berkeley Centre for Right-Wing Studies, about the Alt-Right’s ... Read more

Hello, this is Pod Academy.  Of late, there has been much talk of sexism, in particular sexual harassment, behind the s... Read more