Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAnna Spain Bradley, "Human Choice in International Law" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 140
Professor Anna Spain Bradley "wrote this book to be accessible to anyone, because international law is for everyone." In this important book, Profess…
4 years, 8 months ago
Kalle Kananoja, "Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 105
In Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa (Cambridge UP, 2021), Kalle Kananoja tells the story of how pre-colonial communities throughout the west coas…
4 years, 8 months ago
Rebecca Earle, "Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 80
Potatoes are the world's fourth most important food crop, yet they were unknown to most of humanity before 1500. Rebecca Earle, Feeding the People: T…
4 years, 8 months ago
Richard J. A. McGregor, "Islam and the Devotional Object" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 123
In Islam and the Devotional Object: Seeing Religion in Egypt and Syria (Cambridge University Press, 2020), Richard J. A. McGregor, Associate Professo…
4 years, 8 months ago
James Diggle, "Cambridge Greek Lexicon" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 182
Professor James Diggle, editor in chief of the Cambridge Greek Lexicon (Cambridge UP, 2021), joins us to explain the background to this extraordinary…
4 years, 8 months ago
Catarina Dutilh Novaes, "The Dialogical Roots of Deduction: Historical, Cognitive, and Philosophical Perspectives on Reasoning" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 264
If all men are mortal, and Socrates is a man, then it must be that Socrates is mortal. What could be more obvious? Well, sometimes obviousness serves…
4 years, 9 months ago
Daniel Larsen, "Plotting for Peace: American Peacemakers, British Codebreakers, and Britain at War, 1914–1917" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 1077
With Britain by late 1916 facing the prospect of an economic crisis and increasingly dependent on the US, rival factions in Asquith's government batt…
4 years, 9 months ago
Daniel Gibbs, "A Tattoo on my Brain: A Neurologist's Personal Battle against Alzheimer's Disease" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 85
Dr Daniel Gibbs is one of 50 million people worldwide with an Alzheimer's disease diagnosis. Unlike most patients with Alzheimer's, however, Dr Gibbs…
4 years, 9 months ago
M.W. Shores, "The Comic Storytelling of Western Japan: Satire and Social Mobility in Kamigata Rakugo" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 38
Rakugo, a popular form of comic storytelling, has played a major role in Japanese culture and society. Developed during the Edo (1600–1868) and Meiji…
4 years, 9 months ago
Firmin DeBrabander, "Life after Privacy: Reclaiming Democracy in a Surveillance Society" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 550
As governments and corporations mine our “entrenched culture of sharing” to invade privacy (down to Target creating an algorithm to figure out which …
4 years, 9 months ago