Professor Smith talks about his research at OPTIMA (Oxford Project To Investigate Memory and Ageing) on dementia, particularly Alzheimer’s and the relation between diet and blood pressure in younger life and dementia in older life.

Peter McDonald on Censorship in South Africa

Aug 11th, 2009 29m 51s

Peter McDonald talks about censorship, its philosophical basis and general history within Apartheid South Africa.

Peter McDonald on Literature

Aug 11th, 2009 16m 28s

Summary: Peter McDonald talks about how he became to be interested in Literature, how he became to be an academic at Oxford and what it is like to study literature at Oxford.

Obama's First 100 Days

May 6th, 2009 27m 35s

Orla De Burca interviews Desmond King, Andrew Mellon Professor of American Government, on Barack Obama’s first 100 days as President; discussing Obama’s plans to recover America’s Economy and the success so far of his foreign and domestic plans

7 Keys to the Future

Mar 12th, 2009 54m 4s

Veronica Sartore interviews Ray Hammond about his role as a futurologist and the seven major trends he predicts will affect life throughout the 21st century.

Peter Harrison on Science and Religion

Oct 22nd, 2008 22m 31s

Professor Peter Harrison discusses the relationship between science and religion, the myths that surround the relationship, and discusses some of the contentious contemporary issues.

Marc Stears on Radical Political Thought

Oct 22nd, 2008 28m 16s

Political theorist Dr. Marc Stears talks about the importance of political theory and describes some of the radical political movements of Britain and the United States.

Bryan Ward-Perkins on the Fall of the Roman Empire

Sep 13th, 2008 41m 4s

Bryan Ward-Perkins, a leading historian of Late Antiquity at Trinity College, Oxford, discusses the transitional period between the fall of Rome and the Middle Ages.

Jennifer Lau on Anxiety and Depression in Children

Sep 13th, 2008 19m 13s

Dr Jennifer Lau discusses her research into the development of anxiety and depression in childhood and adolescence.

Gero Miesenboeck on Fruit Flies and Neuroscience

Sep 13th, 2008 27m 39s

In this podcast, Professor Gero Miesenboeck begins with a discussion of DNA and neuroscience, and then talks about his experiments on the brain of the fruit fly.

Oliver Taplin on Classics

Sep 12th, 2008 25m 44s

Professor Oliver Taplin, an authority on classics and the performance of ancient drama, talks about the subject and his research.

Adrian Moore on Metaphysics

Sep 12th, 2008 31m 56s

Adrian Moore, Professor of Philosophy at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, explores the definition and origin of metaphysics, and then discusses some of the enduring metaphysical questions.

Irene Tracey on FMRI and Pain

Sep 12th, 2008 44m 3s

Professor Irene Tracey, director of the Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain, explains how MRI works and then talks about her research into people’s perception of pain.

Thomas Helleday on Cancer

Sep 11th, 2008 26m 46s

Professor Helleday explains what cancer is, the problems of treating it, and the success of his own research in developing new treatments.

John Broome on Rationality

Sep 10th, 2008 45m 49s

John Broome, White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford, gives an explanation of reason and rationality, and then discusses his understanding of the 'the normative question'.

Nick Bostrom on Global Catastrophic Risk and Simulation Theory

Aug 31st, 2008 25m 8s

In this podcast, Professor Bostrom, Director of the Future of Humanity Institute, discusses global catastrophic risks and his earlier work on the simulation theory.

Julian Savulescu on Applied Ethics and Human Enhancement

Aug 31st, 2008 37m 2s

Professor Julian Savulescu, Director of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, talks about the current and future issues in applied ethics, particularly of the new biosciences.

Greg Kochanski on Phonetics

Aug 31st, 2008 26m 10s

Dr Greg Kochanski, a Research Fellow at the Oxford University Phonetics Laboratory, talks about how experiments in phonetics are conducted, how we study the history of language, and how speech changes over time.

Andrew Pollard on Vaccines and Immunisation of Children

Aug 31st, 2008 36m 37s

Dr Andrew Pollard, Reader in Paediatric Infection and Immunity, and Consultant in charge of the Oxford Vaccine Group, discusses childhood diseases, his research into vaccinations, and the problems facing childhood immunisation in the UK and abr