Wolfson College Podcasts

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Wolfson is the largest graduate college in Oxford. Our diverse student body has a wide spread of disciplines and nationalities. The College is both traditional and unconventional, forward thinking and friendly.

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Recent Episodes
  • Looking back; Moving Forwards: The History of Black Lives Matter
    Nov 5, 2020 – 01:52:47
  • If biodiversity is the medicine, then what are its active ingredients?
    Feb 18, 2020 – 59:35
  • The Experience of Courts: A Tale of Two Europes
    Nov 25, 2019 – 49:11
  • Pakistan women on the frontlines
    Nov 21, 2019 – 51:09
  • Spoken memoir of Professor Jon Stallworthy
    Nov 21, 2019 – 21:43
  • Alexandria in the Roman Empire: Politics, Commerce and Culture
    Nov 13, 2019 – 58:38
  • Diplomacy for the 21st Century: The Future of the Democratic West
    Nov 13, 2019 – 01:03:51
  • Diplomacy for the 21st Century: Expanding the diplomatic toolkit: the further evolution of science diplomacy
    Nov 13, 2019 – 01:07:58
  • Diplomacy for the 21st Century: Twenty-first century diplomacy: a new rule book
    Nov 13, 2019 – 41:02
  • Diplomacy for the 21st Century: An African Perspective
    Feb 11, 2019 – 27:01
  • The Quest for the Structure of the Ribosome: A Personal Voyage
    Feb 11, 2019 – 01:02:40
  • Diplomacy for the 21st Century: An Asian Perspective
    Dec 6, 2018 – 45:54
  • Magic, Healing, and Ethics in Tibetan Buddhism
    Dec 6, 2018 – 47:23
  • The Fate of Pakistan - three ways in which things could really go wrong, and reasons for hope they may not
    Dec 6, 2018 – 46:47
  • Spectacular Diplomacy: Nero and the Reception of Tiridates of Armenia on the Bay of Naples
    Dec 6, 2018 – 01:07:21
  • A Stroke of Bad Luck - Understanding Brain Disease
    Feb 9, 2018 – 44:21
  • Migration and the Metropolis: How ancient Rome stayed great
    Nov 3, 2017 – 59:19
  • Rule of Law and Democratic Development in Pakistan
    Oct 20, 2017 – 01:05:15
  • The Koh-i-Noor: the Real Jewel in the Crown
    Feb 28, 2017 – 56:27
  • Why the 'Boring Billion' is the most interesting billion years in Earth History
    Feb 28, 2017 – 56:06
  • What is the point of universities?
    Aug 15, 2016 – 01:07:22
  • The US – Pakistan Relations under Obama: Resilience of Clientelism?
    Dec 2, 2015 – 48:23
  • The Councillor and the Clerk
    Nov 18, 2015 – 45:45
  • What is e-Research? Introducing the Wolfson College Digital Research Cluster
    Nov 16, 2015 – 43:56
  • Is there another economic crash on the way?
    Oct 29, 2015 – 41:06
  • The nature of the beast: Genetic evidence for Yeti, Bigfoot and other mystery creatures
    Jul 10, 2015 – 56:26
  • The Origin of Our Species
    Mar 10, 2015 – 01:03:14
  • The Rhetoric of 'The Roman Revolution'
    Nov 14, 2014 – 01:06:42
  • The Rhetoric of 'The Roman Revolution' (Slides)
    Nov 14, 2014 –
  • Pakistan is a viable and not a failed state if...?
    Nov 14, 2014 – 54:57
  • The First Fall of the Roman Empire
    May 28, 2014 – 01:06:00
  • Who buried the bodies?
    May 28, 2014 – 43:50
  • Janus: At the mirror wall
    May 28, 2014 – 40:26
  • DNA USA: a genetic portrait of America
    May 28, 2014 – 01:06:34
  • From Memory: Isaiah Berlin, Literary Encounters and Life-Stories
    May 1, 2014 – 49:25
  • The better angels of our nature: A history of violence and humanity
    Mar 6, 2014 – 01:00:58
  • Living in a Quantum World
    Apr 4, 2013 – 52:12
  • Making Science Work
    Feb 18, 2013 – 01:02:18
  • "Bright Metal on a Sullen Ground": The idea of true character in English writing and portraiture
    Feb 18, 2013 – 01:05:47
  • The real Jane Austen: A life in small things
    Feb 1, 2013 – 37:08
  • Man with a blue scarf: On sitting for a portrait by Lucian Freud
    Feb 1, 2013 – 57:24
  • Hidden Worlds: Art within Science
    Dec 10, 2012 – 01:03:56
  • Freud's Impossible Life
    Nov 22, 2012 – 48:14
  • 'Containing multitudes': writing about Pevsner
    Nov 8, 2012 – 51:38
  • The Sun King and his Court: from Rome to Versailles and back
    Nov 8, 2012 – 01:04:09
  • Climate change and two concepts of liberty
    May 24, 2012 – 38:14
  • Climate change: making the best use of scientific information
    May 11, 2012 – 54:06
  • Why is climate change so difficult to understand?
    May 4, 2012 – 58:47
  • The public and private ethics of climate change
    May 2, 2012 – 55:56
  • Scholarship Opportunities at Wolfson
    Mar 7, 2012 – 03:02
Recent Reviews
  • RandFan007
    Interesting
    These discussions are interesting for what they are. However, I wish there was a way of leaving a review of individual podcasts. John Broome's talk on May 02 on the ethics of climate change leaves a critical part of issue out. He talked what current generations are "leaving" to future generations of humans as if it were 100% negative. We are leaving tons of greenhouse gases and a warming planet and that's it, all bad. There was no talk of all the knowledge that we are currently in the process of discovering (i.e. solar cells, battery tech, nuclear energy research, microprocessing tech, general physics, and on and on) which future generations will have the benefit of using. The one-sided moralizing that was done was a disservice to the issue. This type of dishonesty by omission is why the general public, non-Oxford intellectual types ignore climate change discussions that can so easily be attacked by mere common sense thinking.
  • Sgt Big G
    Missing
    The podcasts look like they would be interesting, but are apparently no longer available eventhough they are still listed.
  • the blackbird is involved
    Great idea, broken links
    I would love to listen to these podcasts. I was disappointed to find, however, that all but the first appear to be broken.
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