Podcast Episodes

Know Your Place part 2: a history of class politics

In the second episode of Know Your Place: what happened to class in British politics, host Laura Hood, senior politics editor at The Conversation, lo…

1 year, 8 months ago

Know Your Place part 1: the class shift

In the first episode of our new podcast series Know Your Place: what happened to class in British politics, host Laura Hood, senior politics editor a…

1 year, 8 months ago

Know your place: what happened to class in British politics – trailer

The relationship between class and political preference in Britain used to be clear cut – Labour for the working class, the Conservatives for the mid…

1 year, 8 months ago

An update and a name change

We’re changing our name, from The Anthill, to The Conversation Documentaries! 

Over the last few years we’ve used The Anthill podcast to run in-depth …

1 year, 9 months ago

Theory of everything: do we really need one?

The quest for a theory of everything – explaining all the forces and particles in the universe – is arguably the holy grail of physics. While each of…

3 years, 2 months ago

Will we ever have a fundamental theory of life and consciousness?

What’s the difference between a living collection of matter, such as a tortoise, and an inanimate lump of it, such as a rock? They are, after all, bo…

3 years, 2 months ago

Quantum mechanics: does objective reality exist?

It is hard to shake the intuition that there's a real and objective physical world out there. If I see an umbrella on top of a shelf, I assume you do…

3 years, 2 months ago

Is there a multiverse?

Interest in the multiverse theory, suggesting that our universe is just one of many, has spiked since the movie Everything Everywhere All At Once was…

3 years, 2 months ago

Fundamental constants: is the universe fine tuned for life to exist?

Imagine a universe with extremely strong gravity. Stars would be able to form from very little material. They would be smaller than in our universe a…

3 years, 2 months ago

Is time an illusion?

Without a sense of time, leading us from cradle to grave, our lives would make little sense. But on the most fundamental level, physicists aren't sur…

3 years, 3 months ago