Conway Hall: Where Ethics Matter

How to Win the Culture Wars in an Age of Austerity

Nathalie Olah discusses how this bright generation came to be, and what effective means are still at their disposal to challenge the establishment and ultimately win. By rejecting the established rou…

00:30:08 | Mon 02 Dec 2019

The Irrational Ape

Why flawed logic puts us all at Risk, and How Critical Thinking can save the World. David Robert Grimes shows how we can be lured into making critical mistakes or drawing false conclusions, and how t…

01:36:19 | Mon 25 Nov 2019

Behind Closed Doors: Sex Education Transformed

One thing we know for certain is that sex is personal: perhaps the most intimate thing of all. But sex is also shaped by a complicated web of cultural, social and political forces outside of ourselve…

01:03:28 | Mon 18 Nov 2019

In praise of walking

The New Science of how we Walk and why it’s Good for us. Walking enabled us to walk out of Africa and to spread as far as Alaska and Australia. It freed our hands and freed our minds. We put one foot…

01:04:01 | Mon 11 Nov 2019

Mudlarking: Lost and Found on the River Thames

Mudlark (/’mAdla;k/) noun A person who scavenges for usable debris in the mud of a river or harbour Lara Maiklem has scoured the banks of the Thames for over fifteen years, in pursuit of the objects…

01:03:34 | Mon 04 Nov 2019

Mask Off: Masculinity Redefined

What is masculinity? Dominating the world around us, from Trump’s twitter outbursts to deadly gun violence, from male suicide rates to incels on Reddit and 4chan, masculinity is perceived to be ‘toxi…

00:57:03 | Mon 28 Oct 2019

Brexit Without the Bull

Will Brexit boost jobs? Or wreck the NHS? Or cause food shortages? From strawberries to passports, the broadcaster and journalist Gavin Esler sets out how the most momentous change in Britain for dec…

01:11:36 | Mon 21 Oct 2019

Why Diets Don’t Work – and Other Myths About Food and Health

Pixie Turner will unpack why diet and nutrition misinformation is so problematic, on social media, in mass media, and on a public health level, and why we could all benefit from taking a moment to as…

01:12:12 | Mon 30 Sep 2019

Stop Being Reasonable

What if you aren’t who you think you are? What if you don’t really know the people closest to you? And what if your most deeply-held beliefs turn out to be … wrong? In her book Stop Being Reasonab…

00:48:40 | Tue 03 Sep 2019

Thinking on Sunday: The Perils of Partnership in Public Health

Jonathan H. Marks argues that public-private partnerships create “webs of influence” that undermine the integrity of public health agencies and distort health policy and research. These collaboration…

00:29:28 | Mon 01 Jul 2019

Lowborn – Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns

Kerry Hudson discusses her book Lowborn with James Bloodworth. Lowborn is a powerful, personal, agenda-changing work of non-fiction on poverty in Britain – a book like nothing that’s been written bef…

01:17:05 | Tue 18 Jun 2019

Experiencing the Impossible: The Science of Magic

What do we see when we watch a magician pull a rabbit out of a hat or read a person’s mind? We are captivated by an illusion; we applaud the fact that we have been fooled. Why do we enjoy experiencin…

00:50:24 | Tue 18 Jun 2019

Thinking on Sunday: Who Owns England?

How we lost our green and pleasant land, and how to take it back. For centuries, England’s elite have covered up how they got their hands on millions of acres of our land, by constructing walls, bur…

01:07:41 | Sun 02 Jun 2019

The Gendered Brain

The new neuroscience that shatters the myth of the female brain. This is not feminist science – it’s just science. - Prof Gina Rippon.

00:47:29 | Thu 28 Mar 2019