Podcast Episodes
Back to Search
The Meaning, Value and Sanctity of Human Life
Recent advances in medical science have brought complex ethical dilemmas, particularly around the beginning of human lives (abortion, embryo research…
6 years, 10 months ago
Does Finance Benefit Society?
Since the financial crisis, there has been a strong view that the financial sector has little benefit for society. The stock market is not a net supp…
6 years, 10 months ago
Mining Volcanoes: Diamonds, Copper and Hot Water
Volcanoes provide many natural resources from which society can benefit. Diamonds and most of the world's copper are mined from eroded extinct v…
6 years, 10 months ago
Text Mining: How Do Computers Understand Language?
Text is everywhere. From tweets to the gigantic records of governments, machine processing of text is now subtle and pervasive. We can automatically …
6 years, 10 months ago
The Natural Environment of Tudor London
Tudor London is variously reported as a squalid seething mass of humanity choking on its own filth and fumes, and as a delightful garden where babbli…
6 years, 10 months ago
AI and Education: The Reality and the Potential
This lecture will consider the current reality of AI in education and its transformative potential.
Professor Luckin will introduce what we mean by t…
6 years, 10 months ago
Dying in Today's World
In the 50 years since the hospice movement started, lessons from research have revolutionised care of the dying in the UK and in many places around t…
6 years, 10 months ago
London Belongs to Us: Street-Life and New Wave British Cinema of the 1960s
Location shooting was a feature of 'new wave' film around the world in the 1960s. In Britain, it meant that British filmmakers broke out of…
6 years, 10 months ago
The Spiritual Quest Against Religion
The Protestant Reformation set out to purge Christianity of error. But once you have started, how do you know when to stop? Some radicals tore up lay…
6 years, 10 months ago
Crown, Country and the Struggle for Cultural Supremacy
The fourth lecture in this series considers Britain's unique cultural development and how the changing balance of power and wealth between the a…
6 years, 10 months ago