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University of Oxford Podcasts

Chapters

Can Future Energy Needs be Met Sustainably?

1:11:44

Read by Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith, Juliet Davenport OBE, Jan Dusik and Graham van't Hoff

Cultural Frontier: Early 20th Century Vienna

1:15:13

Read by Bethany Bell, Shearer West, Ritchie Robertson and Jonathan Cross

Quo Vadis Ukraine: The Conflict and Beyond

1:30:33

Read by Lord Patten of Barnes, Jutta Edthofer, Gwendolyn Sasse and Michael Bociurkiw

Sacred Landscapes, Buddhist Temples: A case study from Central Tibet

54:54

Read by Ulrike Roesler

Choice or Accident? The outbreak of the First World War

39:56

Read by Margaret MacMillan

The Commercial Evolution of Microfinance: From donor dependence to sustainable s…

41:35

Read by Ira Lieberman and Juan Guerra

Oxford’s Global Leadership in Social Enterprise: A panel discussion

38:28

Read by Pamela Hartigan

Innovation in Financing Human Well-being

25:04

Read by John Bell and Will Hutton

Why is Oxford Determined to Change the Way We Discover New Medicines?

43:13

Read by Chas Bountra

Richard Nixon’s Reputation: 40 years after Watergate

55:14

Read by Nigel Bowles

Richard Ovenden and Diarmaid MacCulloch in Conversation

59:25

Read by Richard Ovenden and Diarmaid MacCulloch

What Maths Really Does: From modelling the brain to modelling the climate

58:55

Read by Alain Goriely

Understanding Fracking for Shale Gas

48:55

Read by Joe Cartwright

What is a Cyber-Attack?

1:03:44

Read by Sadie Creese

The 2020 Vision for Engineering Science in Oxford

39:05

Read by Lionel Tarassenko

Jenkin Lecture The Oxford RobotCar

1:07:08

Read by Paul Newman

The Butterfly Defect: How globalisation creates systemic risks

53:57

Read by Ian Goldin

Living with Flooding: Science, democracy and the complex challenge of managing e…

43:22

Read by Sarah Whatmore

The Ottoman Front: The First World War in the Middle East

39:25

Read by Eugene Rogan

The Future of the Past: Dating archaeology using radiocarbon and particle accele…

38:57

Read by Tom Higham

Heroes, Villains and Victims: The dangerous politics of international migration

53:50

Read by Bridget Anderson, Hein de Haas, Martin Ruhs and Katrin Bennhold

Forbidden Crystal Symmetry: Mathematics and architecture

55:01

Read by Roger Penrose

70 Years On: My, how you’ve changed!

48:59

Read by Chris Patten

Wildlife in the Anthropocene: Environmentalism without nature

47:53

Read by Jamie Lorimer

Black Land, Red Land: The Nile Valley and Egypt’s Western Desert

1:05:47

Read by Mark Smith

The Biogeography of Madagascar: A Gondwanan island

1:10:44

Read by Matt Friedman

Healthcare 2030: Oxford and the Value of Human Health

58:38

Read by Chas Bountra, Jonathan Flint and Nick Rawlins

Alumni Weekend in Asia 2014, Hong Kong - Highlights

5:00

Read by Andrew Hamilton and Chris Patten

Alumni Weekend in Asia 2014: Closing Speech by Chancellor

11:52

Read by Chris Patten

The Num8er My5teries

1:10:42

Read by Marcus du Sautoy

Alumni Weekend in Asia 2014: Does the 21st Century belong to Asia?

1:21:27

Read by Ranna Mitter, Linda Yeuh, Ngaire Woods, Peter Tufano and Chris Patten

Alumni Weekend in Asia 2014: Welcome and University Update by Vice-Chancellor

27:21

Read by Andrew Hamilton

Translations as Literature

1:04:08

Read by Matthew Reynolds

An Oxford Education

51:27

Read by Andrew Hamilton, Mike Nicholson, Helen Swift, Priscilla Santos and Jenny Brennan

Medieval Romance and the Gift of Narrative

1:04:04

Read by Nicholas Perkins

From the Arab Spring to the Syrian War: Regional, international and humanitarian…

35:00

Read by Hugo Slim and Louise Fawcett

Biotechnology: For better or worse?

36:50

Read by Marianne Talbot

Fireworks Displays: The chemistry of explosive entertainment

1:00:03

Read by Tom Smith

The Secret Mathematicians

51:41

Read by Marcus du Sautoy

Measuring Global Poverty

42:22

Read by Sabina Alkire

Writing Contemporary Fiction: From Inspiration to Publication

1:13:27

Read by James Benmore, Samantha Shannon, Sam Thompson and Clare Morgan

Physics in the 21st Century

1:13:40

Read by John Wheater, Derek Stacy and Jay Watson

A Successful Strategy for Building Normal Brains - Nature or Nurture?

39:54

Read by Simon Butt

Against All Odds: Recovering the first climate data from the central Sahara

45:00

Read by Richard Washington

Divided Nations: Why global governance is failing, and what we can do about it

54:02

Read by Ian Goldin

Big Data and Drug Discovery (The Osler Discussion)

1:12:28

Read by Martin Landray

Trust, Free Speech and British Pluralism in the 21st Century

42:39

Read by Chris Patten

Love and Sex in Victorian Fiction

1:03:57

Read by David Grylls

Darwin's Fish: Evolutionary controversies in the fossil record

1:05:47

Read by Matt Friedman

Socrates and 'The Hemlock Cup'

54:22

Read by Bettany Hughes

Exploring the Universe

36:48

Read by Rana Irshad

The Arrogance of Power: Senator Fulbright's Concept and Today's World

38:40

Read by Sir Adam Roberts

What the World Needs Now from the Environmental Movement

46:55

Read by Kumi Naidoo

Colliding Continents

55:25

Read by Mike Searle

Where will Tomorrow's Food Come From - and What will be the Consequences?

45:19

Read by Tim Benton and Mary Atkinson

The Oxford English Dictionary: From Victorian venture to the digital age endeavo…

58:19

Read by Fiona McPherson

The Battle for the Black Vote: Findings from the Ethnic Minority Election Survey

1:18:36

Read by Anthony Heath

The Fraud of Forgiveness without Reconciliation in Economic Life.

56:44

Read by Michael Black

Reporting Education

22:00

Read by Reeta Chakrabarti

Spain and Europe, Old Myths and New Realities

27:07

Read by Charles Powell, Esperanza Aguirre and Tom Burns

The Spanish Golden Age

54:13

Read by Frances Lannon, John Elliott and Jonathan Thacker

Shakespeare's Fools

50:15

Read by Katherine Duncan-Jones

Physics in the 21st century - an exciting Time for Physics at oxford

39:10

Read by John Wheater, Alan Barr and Henry Snaith

Mystical Northern Lights

41:42

Read by Rob Simpson

Zooniverse: what to do with half a million scientists?

43:44

Read by Chris Lintott and Rob Simpson

Social Mobility - The Greatest Challenge of our Time?

32:41

Read by Sir Peter Lampi

How the West Got it

45:57

Read by Richard Jenkyns

Rich and Poor in Britain in the Age of Dickens and Today

1:03:47

Read by Alison Jackson, Jane Humphries, Helen Small and Paul Donovan

Military Ethics Ancient and Modern

53:34

Read by Matthew Leigh

Hard words, best words words in use, writing the inventory of english

26:52

Read by Lynda Mugglestone

How to eat an Elephant: Why Climate Change Policy is in a Mess and How to Fix it

1:01:01

Read by Steve Rayner

Going into Politics? Tales from an Academic in Westminster

37:59

Read by Marc Stears and Mark Philip

The Constitutional Issues surrounding devolution in the UK

1:11:12

Read by Iain MacLean and Will Hutton

Revolutionising 21st Century Healthcare Through Technology

46:35

Read by Constantin Coussios, Lionel Tarassenko, Alison Noble and Andrew Hamilton

End of Life: Should Physician-Assisted Dying be Legalised?

1:12:54

Read by Fiona Randall, Richard Harries, Antony Kenny, Mary Warnock, Ian Chalmers and Terence English

American election Prospects and Consequences: 2012 and Beyond

1:03:43

Read by Nigel Bowles

Lumley's Children? The Nepali Community in Britain

53:41

Read by David Gellner

Creating a 'John Lewis' economy? - encouraging Corporate Diversity for Sustainab…

48:12

Read by Jonathan Michie

Party Games: Coalition Government in British Politics

31:01

Read by Angus Hawkins

The Flexible City: overcoming Lock-In and Path-Dependency

50:07

Read by Steve Rayner

How Hollywood Votes and Why it Matters

41:45

Read by Tim Stanley

The Thomas Willis Oxford Brain Collection

49:59

Read by Margaret Esiri

Wobbles, warbles and fish the brain basis of reading difficulties

53:04

Read by John Stein

Ebooks, Reading and Scholarship in a Digital Age

1:02:11

Read by Niko Pfund

Has the West Had It?

52:31

Read by Chris Patten

Vaccines for Global Health

56:37

Read by Adrian Hill

Napoleon

54:40

Read by Brian Unwin

Europe in the World

1:06:54

Read by Chris Patten, Anne Deighton, Barbara Harris-White, Alan Wolfe and Linda Yueh

What Europe for our grandchildren?

43:47

Read by Timothy Garton Ash

Governing the 21st Century: Oxford's new Blavatnik School of Government

22:20

Read by Ngaire Woods

Towards a Fairer Society

52:24

Read by Sally Mapstone, Hugh Dent, Fiona Caldicott and Peter Quinn

The Ethics of Climate Change

50:16

Read by John Broome

Justice Between Generations

49:12

Read by Mark Philp, Simon Caney and Adam Swift

Earthquake Science in the 21st Century

59:17

Read by Richard Walker

900 years of making a difference: the history of philanthropy at the University …

1:09:14

Read by Chris Day

The Population Paradox

55:52

Read by David Coleman, George Leeson and Nando Sigona

New Cells for Old Members: The Science of Stem Cells

1:07:08

Read by Francis Szele

The Changing Character of War

55:54

Read by Robert Johnson

Twirling the Kaleidoscope: The Byzantine Empire

1:02:58

Read by Peter Frankopan

Food, Health and the Future

33:06

Read by Jane Langdale, Mike Rayner and Klim McPherson