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Episode Title	Description	People	Date
Feed the birds?	What do birds like eating and what decisions do they have to make when visiting a bird feeder?	Lindsay Turnbull, Friederike Hillemann, Annette Fayet	28 July, 2020
What Tolkien learnt from 'Beowulf': Representations of Evil	Monsters and evil in Tolkien	Rafael J. Pascual	16 July, 2020
Interview with a Vampire	Find out how plants like mistletoe and hayrattle extract resources from their hosts and how hayrattle engages in a game of rock, paper, scissors, that makes managing meadows a whole lot easier.	Lindsay Turnbull	10 July, 2020
Interview with Water	This is the first ever online lecture by a Professor of Poetry at Oxford. In the lecture, Alice Oswald explores the strange connection between water and grief.	Alice Oswald	8 July, 2020
Much ado about mothing	Dedicated to moths, this episode explores how and why these unsung heroes deserve more attention.	Lindsay Turnbull, Doug Boyes, Ben Sheldon	30 June, 2020
'Healing Our Divided Society': The Kerner Commission at 50	This presentation and discussion, features Gary Younge (University of Manchester) Alan Curtis (Eisenhower Foundation) on the legacies and lessons of the Kerner Commission and their relevance to the current American moment.	Mitch Robertson, Alan Curtis, Gary Younge	30 June, 2020
Fictional Facts or Factual Fiction? The Social Reality behind Kha stag ʼDzam yag’s "Diary" and Lhag pa Don grub’s "Life of a mule driver"	Fictional Facts or Factual Fiction? Lucia Galli's talk on self-representation and the social reality behind two Tibetan memoirs	Lucia Galli	4 June, 2020
Past the Peak of the Coronavirus Pandemic: Triage of Non-Covid-19 patients	Katrien Devolder interviews Dominic Wilkinson.	Dominic Wilkinson, Katrien Devolder	1 June, 2020
The Nechung Oracle and the Construction of Identity in the Tibetan Diaspora	The Oracle in Exile: Pema Choedon's talk on the Nechung Oracle and identity construction in the Tibetan Diaspora	Pema Choedon	28 May, 2020
Sylvia Townsend Warner	Carolyne Larrington introduces the writing of Sylvia Townsend Warner.	Carolyne Larrington	26 May, 2020
Why is the world green?	Lindsay searches for the truth about our verdant green world and tackles a mystery about her rose-bushes: who ate all the greenfly?	Lindsay Turnbull	24 May, 2020
The Mortality of the Dalai Lama and its Scriptural Sources: A Study in Tibetan Buddhist Political Theology	I am currently focusing on the problem of the Dalai Lama’s mortality that is, the question of how to come to terms with his suffering and death, in light of the association between Tibetan kingship and the deity Avalokiteśvara.	Ian MacCormack	21 May, 2020
Preliminary Practices: Bloody Knees, Calloused Palms and the Transformative Nature of Women’s Labor	The Preliminary Practices not only initiate practitioners into a specific tradition, but also more fundamentally, into Vajrayana Buddhism as it is practiced in contemporary Tibet.	Kati Fitzgerald	14 May, 2020
Ursula K. Le Guin	A brief introduction to the writer Ursula K. Le Guin.	Caroline Batten	13 May, 2020
T. H. White	A brief introduction to the writer T. H. White.	Gabriel Schenk	12 May, 2020
Diana Wynne Jones	A brief introduction to the writer Diana Wynne Jones.	Gabriel Schenk	12 May, 2020
Why 'Game of Thrones' Matters	'Game of Thrones' and storytelling.	Carolyne Larrington	12 May, 2020
Re-Enchanted: The Rise of Children’s Fantasy Literature in the Twentieth Century	A guest lecture by Dr Maria Cecire (Bard College) discussing children's fantasy literature.	Maria Cecire	12 May, 2020
Interview: Catherine Butler	An Interview with Dr Catherine Butler, author of the book 'Four British Fantasists'.	Catherine Butler, Will Brockbank	12 May, 2020
Alan Garner	A brief introduction to the British fantasy writer, Alan Garner.	Felix Taylor	12 May, 2020
Approaching Fantasy Literature	A short introduction to reading and studying fantasy literature.	Stuart Lee	12 May, 2020
H. P. Lovecraft	A brief introduction to the writer, H. P. Lovecraft.	Stuart Lee	12 May, 2020
Seeds of Change	In this episode we take a look at the strange life-cycle of ferns and find out why they are so dependent on water.	Lindsay Turnbull	10 May, 2020
Writing about the Nechung Oracle	Christopher Bell's talk about oracles, protector deities, and other mysteries	Christopher Bell	7 May, 2020
May Morning, Oxford 1993	Thousands gather on the High Street on May Morning, Oxford 1993.	Charles Beesley	1 May, 2020
Is it Permissible for Healthcare Workers to Stop Working if They Lack PPE?	Katrien Devolder interviews Udo Schüklenk.	Udo Schuklenk, Katrien Devolder	23 April, 2020
How the Coronavirus Pandemic Exacerbates Existing Inequalities	An interview with Dr Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra.	Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra, Katrien Devolder	21 April, 2020
Stinker!	In this episode we look at the cuckoo pint, which has an unusual flower with the central part, called a spadix, releasing a stench that to our nostrils is quite revolting.	Lindsay Turnbull	20 April, 2020
Queen Bee	Learn how to identify common garden bees and find out why they never seem to stay still.	Lindsay Turnbull	20 April, 2020
Triage in an Italian ICU During the Coronavirus Pandemic	An interview with Dr Marco Vergano.	Marco Vergano, Katrien Devolder	20 April, 2020
Tackling the Cause of the Coronavirus Pandemic	An interview with Professor Peter Singer.	Peter Singer, Katrien Devolder	20 April, 2020
Conflict and Wellbeing Deprivation in sub-Saharan Africa	Ricardo Nogales gives a talk for the Changing Character of War seminar series.	Ricardo Nogales	16 April, 2020
Unpacking the Refugees-Terrorism Nexus	Sara Polo, University of Essex, gives a talk for the Changing Character of War seminar series.	Sara Polo	16 April, 2020
The Russian Understanding of War	Oscar Jonsson, Stockholm Free World Forum, gives a talk for the Changing Character of War Programme.	Oscar Jonsson	16 April, 2020
Terrorism and Recent Developments in Human Rights	Lord John Alderdice gives a talk for the Changing Character of War seminar series.	John Alderdice	16 April, 2020
How do mathematicians model infectious disease outbreaks?	Models. They are dominating our Lockdown lives. But what is a mathematical model? We hear a lot about the end result, but how is it put together? What are the assumptions? And how accurate can they be?	Robin Thompson	15 April, 2020
The Lillies of the Fields	The beautiful snake's-head fritillary is the flower of Oxfordshire. In this episode we look closely at the flowers it produces.	Lindsay Turnbull	13 April, 2020
Deceived with ornament	Plants attract pollinators through their colourful flowers but some plants aren't quite what they seem.	Lindsay Turnbull	6 April, 2020
Strachey Lecture: Medicine and Physiology in the Age of Dynamics	Medicine and Physiology in the Age of Dynamics: Newton Abraham Lecture 2020	Alan Garfinkel	2 April, 2020
Sex and the single primrose	In early spring, primroses and cowslips can be found in many gardens and parks. Their yellow flowers are certainly beautiful, but they also hold a secret: they come in two different types that can only mate with each other.	Lindsay Turnbull	26 March, 2020
From Inclusion to Exclusion from School: Transforming the lives of young people with special educational needs and disabilities?	This seminar explores the process of formal and informal exclusion from the macro, meso and micro level to understand some of the complex interactions between policy, school and individual factors.	Jill Porter, Ruth Moyse	25 February, 2020
Being a working class queer in theatre	Louise Wallwein MBE, a renowned and award-winning poet, playwright and performer, gives the 11th annual LGBT History Month lecture	Louise Wallwein	25 February, 2020
Race and the problem of the public in postwar America	Margaret Weir of Brown University, delivers the Winant Lecture in American Government	Margaret Weir	25 February, 2020
Imitating Authors	Book at Lunchtime: Imitating Authors	Colin Burrow, Wes Williams, Kathryn Murphy, Stephen Halliwell	24 February, 2020
Overdiagnosis and Lung Cancer Screening	Recent results of the NELSON Lung Cancer Screening Trial reports reductions in lung-cancer survival but not overall survival - The desire to detect disease even earlier means Overdiagnosis is on the rise.	Carl Heneghan	14 February, 2020
2020 Colin Ford Lecture	Professor Larry Schaaf delivers the 2020 Colin Ford Lecture, providing a fascinating insight into his work on The William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonne.	Larry Schaaf	14 February, 2020
Law and Exclusion from School	Combining legal analysis, theory, and evidence from practice, Lucinda Ferguson argues that the law is ill-equipped to support children at risk of permanent exclusion from school, particularly children with disabilities or other additional needs.	Lucinda Ferguson	13 February, 2020
Exclusion and Mental Health: Exploring the Role of Improved Provision in Schools	This talk discusses the latest understanding of mental health needs in adolescent populations in the UK and the potential role that mental health services in schools can play.	Mina Fazel	13 February, 2020
All Souls Seminar Series: The Contribution of Forensic or other Expert Evidence to Wrongful Convictions in the United States: Data and Experiences from the National Registry of Exonerations	All Souls Seminar Series: The Contribution of Forensic or other Expert Evidence to Wrongful Convictions in the United States: Data and Experiences from the National Registry of Exonerations	Simon Cole	10 February, 2020
S1E4: Adolescence, narrative and storytelling	This episode hosts a discussion reflecting on the meeting points between narrative and adolescence.	Elleke Boehmer, Oluwafemi Oyebode, Caroline Adjimi, Hermann Wittenberg	6 February, 2020
S1E3: Performance and Adolescence	This episode explores the relationship between performance and selfhood in adolescent lives.	Elleke Boehmer, Alude Mahali, Alexandra Georgakopoulou, Kopano Ratele	6 February, 2020
S1E2: Adolescence and Care	This epsiode addresses the role of care in adolescence in African contexts.	Chris Desmond, Olayinka Omigbodun, Cindi Katz, Lucie Cluver	6 February, 2020
S1E1: Violence and Adolescence	This episode explores the impact of violence in the lives of young people, both in African contexts and beyond.	Elleke Boehmer, Diana Walters, Patricia Daley, Heidi Stöckl	6 February, 2020
Alternative Provision and School Exclusions	This presentation will discuss the place of Alternative Provision (AP) in the process of exclusion in England, with a particular focus on issues related to social justice.	Martin Mills	4 February, 2020
Book Launch: Extralegal Groups in Post-Conflict Liberia	In this seminar, Christine Cheng explores how states and extra-legal groups work together and analyzes how our definitions of what is legal affect our view of the state and governance.	Christine Cheng	30 January, 2020
We Are Not Good at Translating Lab Science Into New Medicines for Patients	Inaugural lecture delivered by Chas Bountra, Professor of Translational Medicine at Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Co-Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Affordable Medicines, and Pro Vice-Chancellor for Innovation, University of Oxford	Chas Bountra, Marta Arnaldi, Magdalena Kubiak	22 January, 2020
Conflicts of Interest in Medicine: Why it’s time for a UK Sunshine Act	Should doctors with commercial interests lead research on their products? Should we forget ‘conflicts’ and discuss ‘declarations of interest’ instead? Who should hold and maintain conflicts of interest registers for doctors?	Carl Heneghan	21 January, 2020
Ethics at the Edge of Madness	Ethics at the Edge of Madness - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap	Anand Vivek Taneja	20 January, 2020
The Opioid Epidemic in India	The Opioid Epidemic in India - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap	Bhrigupati Singh	20 January, 2020
Psychoanalysis of the Oppressed, A Practice of Freedom	Psychoanalysis of the Oppressed, A Practice of Freedom - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap	Ankhi Mukherjee	20 January, 2020
Issues in Public Health in India	Issues in Public Health in India - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap	Keshav Desiraju	20 January, 2020
The Indian Oedipus	The Indian Oedipus - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap	Shruti Kapila	20 January, 2020
Welcome	Welcome - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap	Roger Goodman, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon	20 January, 2020
Mental health and stress the multi-disciplinary teams approach	Mental health and stress the multi-disciplinary teams approachl - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap	Georgia Watson	20 January, 2020
Community-based interventions for common mental disorders in low and middle-income countries	Community-based interventions for common mental disorders in low and middle-income countries - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap	Soumitra Pathare	20 January, 2020
Public Health England’s Global Mental Health initiative	Public Health England’s Global Mental Health initiative - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap	Anees Pari	20 January, 2020
Non-specialist health worker interventions for mental health care in low- and middle- income countries	Non-specialist health worker interventions for mental health care in low- and middle- income countries - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap	Prathap Tharyan	20 January, 2020
Opening address	Opening address - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap	Premila Webster	20 January, 2020
Responsive mental health systems to address the poverty, homelessness and mental illness nexus	Responsive mental health systems to address the poverty, homelessness and mental illness nexus - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap	Lakshmi Narasimhan	20 January, 2020
Innovative provision of primary mental health care in rural India	Innovative provision of primary mental health care in rural Indial - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap	Pallab Maulik	20 January, 2020
Ecology and Mental Health in India	Ecology and Mental Health in India - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap	Maan Barua, Sushrut Jadhav	20 January, 2020
Identifying perinatal depression in resource-constrained settings	Identifying perinatal depression in resource-constrained settings - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap	Gracia Fellmeth	20 January, 2020
Differences in rates of school exclusions in the four jurisdictions to the UK	This seminar reports on the ongoing work of the multi-disciplinary and multi-site Excluded Lives Group whose work has led to the ESRC funds project The Political Economies of School Exclusion and their Consequences.	Harry Daniels, Ian Thompson, Alice Tawell	20 January, 2020
The Mental Health Act in India - what next?	The Mental Health Act in India - what next? - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap	Keshav Desiraju	20 January, 2020
Working outside the traditional clinical model	Working outside the traditional clinical model - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap	Anna Tharyan	20 January, 2020
A discussion of ethical challenges posed by AI, involving experts from fields across Oxford - Seminar 1	An introduction by Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt; The place of Ethics in AI, AI Ethics and legal regulation, Ethics of AI in healthcare	Tom Douglas, Carissa Véliz, Vicki Nash, Sandra Wachter, Brent Mittelstadt, Gil McVean, Jess Morley	20 January, 2020
All Souls Seminar - Structural Racism and Deaths in Police Custody in Europe: At the Crossroads of Criminal Law and Human Rights	All Souls Seminar - Structural Racism and Deaths in Police Custody in Europe: At the Crossroads of Criminal Law and Human Rights	Eddie Bruce-Jones	2 January, 2020
UK Supreme Court: R (Privacy International) v Investigatory Powers Tribunal [2019] UKSC 22	Session 3 of the Law and Politics in Three Courts conference Friday 8th November 2019	Nick Barber, Richard Ekins, Jeff King, Helen Mountfield	20 December, 2019
Kenyan Supreme Court: Raila Odinga and Another v IEBC and Others, 2017	Session 2 of the Law and Politics in Three Courts conference Friday 8th November 2019	Anne Makena, John Ambani, Nic Cheeseman, Luis Franceschi	20 December, 2019
International Criminal Court: Appeal against the decision under article 87(7)of the Rome Statute on the non-compliance by Jordan with the request by the Court for the arrest and surrender of Omar Al-Bashir (ICC- 02/05-01/09 OA2) 6 May 2019	Session 1 of the Law and Politics in Three Courts conference Friday 8th November 2019	Catherine O’Regan, Dapo Akande, Evelyne Asaala, Dire Tladi	20 December, 2019
How effective can litigation be in foreseeing and preventing human rights abuse?	Alejandra Ancheita delivers the keynote address at the Justice for Transnational Human Violations - At the Crossroads of Litigation, Policy and Scholarship Conference June 2019	Alejandra Ancheita	20 December, 2019
The Elders know Nothing: the Inversion of Tradition in the New Mining Context	Ramon Sarró and Marina P. Temudo deliver paper at 'Cultural Production in Africa's Extractive Communities' workshop.	Ramon Sarró, Marina P. Temudo	14 December, 2019
Youth, insecurity and intimacy in the popular arts of the Niger Delta	David Pratten delivers paper at 'Cultural Production in Africa's Extractive Communities' workshop.	David Pratten	14 December, 2019
Artistic Movements: Music, Popular Painting and Cultural Exchanges on the central African Copperbelt	Enid Guene delivers paper at 'Cultural Production in Africa's Extractive Communities' workshop.	Enid Guene	14 December, 2019
Mobutist Modernism: Art Education, State Sponsorship and the Visual Arts in Zaire	Sarah Van Beurden delivers paper at 'Cultural Production in Africa's Extractive Communities' workshop.	Sarah Van Beurden	14 December, 2019
The 2019 Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters	New Yorker fiction through the decades	Deborah Treisman	12 December, 2019
Why we need a fourth revolution in healthcare	William bird discusses how healthcare focused on communities and acitve lifestyles can lead to greater wellbeing.	William Bird	6 December, 2019
Plant genetics from Mendel to Monsanto	Ottoline Leyser discusses the ability to target and/or select specific genetic changes in plant genomes, and the impact of this on the governance of our food system.	Ottoline Leyser	6 December, 2019
Psychologically informed micro-targeted political campaigns: the use and abuse of data	Data-driven micro-targeted campaigns have become a key part of political strategy. As personal and societal data becomes more accessible, we need to understand how it can be used and whether it is relevant to regulate political candidates' access to data.	Jens Koed Madsen	4 December, 2019
The technology trap - capital, labour and power in the age of automation	Carl Frey discusses his book 'The Technology Trap'	Carl Benedikt Frey	4 December, 2019
Diet, obesity and health: from science to policy	Susan Jebb discusses how science and policy can help us make wiser choices for our health.	Susan Jebb	4 December, 2019
Essai, roman, film: réflexion sur les métamorphoses de l'écriture	Dr Chantal Thomas delivers the 2019 Zaharoff lecture (in french)	Chantal Thomas	2 December, 2019
Migration: the movement of humankind from prehistory to the present	Robin Cohen discusses migration throughout history and in the present day.	Robin Cohen	2 December, 2019
Linking people, nature, food and climate: progress and implications	David Nabarro, former Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Food Security and Nutrition, will give a talk on what implications there will be for the planet and us in linking nature, food and the climate.	David Nabarro	2 December, 2019
Operationalising the potential of Applied Digital Health research	The increased reliance of health systems on the digital record as the primary mechanism for storing data on consultations and other health interactions has opened new opportunities for research, healthcare innovation, and health policy.	Richard Hobbs	27 November, 2019
Ending energy poverty: reframing the poverty discourse	The President of the Rockefeller Foundation discusses the need for new solutions for energy transformation and economic development.	Rajiv J. Shah	27 November, 2019
Sustainability scenarios for the global food and land-use system	Michael Obersteiner presents new insights from co-producing a set of new sustainability scenarios.	Michael Obersteiner	27 November, 2019
Rule-Mania in Enlightenment Paris	Professor Lorraine Daston delivers the 2019 Besterman Lecture	Lorraine Daston	21 November, 2019
Rethinking Work from A Uganda Marketplace	William Monteith explores the marketplaces of Uganda, specifically larger ones in Kampala, to discuss how the differences between waged and non-waged labour are viewed. He also discusses the role of different types of work in this context.	William Monteith	20 November, 2019
The First Image of a Black Hole	Professor Heino Falcke of Radboud University, Nijmegen delivers the 19th Hintze Lecture - reviewing the latest results of the Event Horizon Telescope, its scientific implications and future expansions of the array	Heino Falcke	19 November, 2019