In Depth, Out Loud

by The Conversation

Welcome to In Depth Out Loud, a selection of long form stories written by academic experts for The Conversation in the UK. Each episode brings you the audio version of a different story across a wide range of subjects, from science, to politics, health, culture and business.

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Recent Episodes
  • The inside story of the CIA v Russia
    Dec 9, 2022 – 29:58
  • The 12 best ways to get cars out of cities
    Jun 22, 2022 – 25:53
  • How the future of shopping was shaped by its past
    Apr 1, 2022 – 27:00
  • The discovery of insulin: a story of monstrous egos and toxic rivalries
    Jan 14, 2022 – 27:33
  • Climate crisis: how science fiction can inspire humanity’s response
    Oct 8, 2021 – 24:33
  • Wireheading: the AI version of drug addiction, and why experts are worried about it
    Oct 1, 2021 – 32:34
  • Why there aren’t enough trees to offset society’s carbon emissions – and there never will be
    Aug 10, 2021 – 26:52
  • How a Soviet miner from the 1930s helped create today’s intense corporate workplace culture
    Jun 30, 2021 – 24:49
  • Why the concept of net zero is a dangerous trap
    May 10, 2021 – 27:14
  • Durex condoms: how their teenage immigrant inventor was forgotten by history
    Feb 12, 2021 – 25:23
  • Two doctors on the frontline of Liverpool's second wave
    Dec 14, 2020 – 18:29
  • Charles Dickens: the truth about his death and burial
    Jun 8, 2020 – 29:30
  • Lockdown lessons from the history of solitude
    May 20, 2020 – 22:51
  • What will the world be like after coronavirus? Four possible futures
    Apr 29, 2020 – 27:34
  • How to model a pandemic
    Apr 3, 2020 – 17:31
  • Ritalin: a biography
    Feb 21, 2020 – 22:52
  • How a Frenchman born 150 years ago inspired the extreme nationalism behind Brexit and Donald Trump
    Feb 4, 2020 – 26:13
  • Infertility through the ages, and how IVF helped change the way we think about it – podcast
    Jul 25, 2018 – 18:12
  • Decolonise science: time to end another imperial era – podcast
    Jun 27, 2018 – 22:41
  • How the humble potato fuelled the rise of liberal capitalism – podcast
    May 30, 2018 – 19:09
  • How transhumanism’s faithful follow it blindly into a future for the elite – podcast
    May 2, 2018 – 23:09
  • Antisemitism: how the origins of history’s oldest hatred still hold sway today – podcast
    Apr 19, 2018 – 20:57
  • The story of the Novichok nerve agents – podcast
    Mar 20, 2018 – 20:32
  • The heartbreaking story of the flying mathematicians of World War I – podcast
    Mar 8, 2018 – 17:31
  • Africa’s missing Ebola outbreaks – podcast
    Feb 21, 2018 – 18:59
  • Why life expectancy in Britain has fallen so much that a million years of life could disappear by 2058 – podcast
    Feb 7, 2018 – 21:19
  • The IQ test wars: why screening for intelligence is still so controversial – podcast
    Jan 24, 2018 – 15:28
  • How slimming became an obsession with women in post-war Britain – podcast
    Jan 10, 2018 – 18:02
  • Buggery, bribery and a committee: the story of how gay sex was decriminalised in Britain – podcast
    Dec 20, 2017 – 16:41
  • Twenty years on from Deep Blue vs Kasparov: how a chess match started the big data revolution – podcast
    Dec 6, 2017 – 18:49
  • A visit to Pyongyang: the Kim dynasty’s homage to Stalinism – podcast
    Nov 22, 2017 – 15:02
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    Excellent
    Very well produced, edited and written podcast on a variety of subjects. Really loved the 'How the Humble Potato Fueled the Rise of Liberal Capitalism' episode.
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