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Science Communication and Public Engagement
Science, Maths & Technology

Science Communication and Public Engagement

...introduction to this album. Science and society Dr. Richard Holliman interviews Prof. Alan Irwin on the changing relationship between science and society. Communicating science Dr Richard Holliman interviews Dr Victoria Pearson on how she communicates science as a scientist, researcher, teacher and public engagement practitioner. A history of the science journal Nature...
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Audio 1 hr 14 mins
War, Intervention and Development
Nature & Environment

War, Intervention and Development

...introduction to this album. The Sierra Leone Sanctions Debate A discussion of sanctions, with specific reference to Sierra Leone, and how they have an impact on the population concerned Pushing too hard for elections An appraisal of the elections in Sierra Leone and a debate on whether they were pushed through at the expense of democracy Civil war in Sierra Leone Looking...
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Audio 2 hrs 11 mins
Astronomy
Science, Maths & Technology

Astronomy

...introduction to this album. Our Invisible Sun Scientists investigate sun spots, solar flares and arcs using x-ray telescopes, featuring the Big Bear Observatory in LA. VLA, HEIDI What would the sun look like if we had magnetically sensitive eyes? How the most sensitive radio telescopes on earth work. Is Our Sun Normal? Astronomers compare events on other stars to helps us...
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Audio 1 hr 21 mins
Social housing and working class heritage
History & The Arts

Social housing and working class heritage

...introduction to this album. Social housing: winners and losers Iconic status or demolition? Social housing estates have had widely differing fates - which way will it go for the Carpenters' estate? Social housing: fighting for survival Shows campaigning by the Carpenters estate and the Excalibur estate to save their homes from demolition. Social housing: sense of place...
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Audio 1 hr 30 mins
Thought and Experience
History & The Arts

Thought and Experience

...introduction to this album Origins of the modern concept of mind A detailed discussion about the Aristotelian concept of the soul and the Cartesian concept of the mind by Susan James Issues facing contemporary philosophy of mind A detailed discussion about various approaches to contemporary philosophy of mind focusing on the computational view Ancient philosophers' views...
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Audio 5 hrs 8 mins
Innovation Design: Sustainable Communities
Science, Maths & Technology

Innovation Design: Sustainable Communities

...introduction to this album. Demonstrating sustainability in Scotland A community designed to be sustainable, environmentally friendly and ecologically sound. Designing an eco-village The architect of Beddington zero fossil energy development talks about the advantages of living in an eco-village. The design of Hockerton The design and build of the Hockerton housing...
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Audio 55 mins
Philosophy and the Human Situation
History & The Arts

Philosophy and the Human Situation

...introduction to this album Liberty and Offence Philosophy professor Jonathan Wolff discusses 19th century classical liberal thinker John Stuart Mill’s famous ‘harm’ principle Rousseau and Positive Freedom Philosophy lecturer Derek Matravers explains 18th century philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s line of thought in his great work, The Social Contract Pro- and...
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Audio 4 hrs 19 mins
Challenging ideas in mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Challenging ideas in mental health

...introduction to this album. A quiet night on Roundhay Wing An abstract dramatisation set in the year 2000. We are introduced to Roundhay Ward, a psychiatric wing of a large hospital in Leeds. The lost souls A patient (Jonathan X) wakes up from a dream surrounded by 3 lost souls. They tell him the only way he can be released form the spell of Roundhay ward is to see Remo -...
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Audio 1 hr 36 mins