The Forum Podcast
The programme that explains the present by exploring the past.
Episodes to download
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Underground: How Deep Can Life Survive?
Sat 3 Sep 2016
Exploring the mysteries of the biosphere below the earth’s surface.
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Fire: How Climate Change is Altering our Attitudes to Wildfires
Sat 27 Aug 2016
How do we deal with fire to protect health without compromising the environment?
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What is the Best Way to Deal with Anxiety?
Sat 20 Aug 2016
How anxiety is created in the brain and how we can best help the anxious
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Image overload: Coping with the modern world's visual clutter
Sat 13 Aug 2016
How do our brains cope with the visual clutter of the modern world?
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Balloons and How they Changed the World
Sat 6 Aug 2016
The extraordinary impact of balloons on the human race.
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Sharing and Why it is Essential for the Human Race
Sat 30 Jul 2016
Why do we share and how important is it for our survival?
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The Unpredictable Planet: Understanding Volcanoes and Earthquakes
Sat 23 Jul 2016
New ideas about volcanoes, earthquakes and other geological processes
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Do You Know What You’re Eating?
Sat 16 Jul 2016
How to ensure better food transparency: to track what we eat from farm to fork.
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Radioactivity: Friend or Foe?
Sat 9 Jul 2016
Separating the benefits of radioactivity from its dangers
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Defiance: Why Are Some People More Defiant than Others?
Sat 2 Jul 2016
When is defiance a resistance to authority, and when is it a sign of disregard to others?
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Microbes and Humans: The Science of Living Together
Sat 25 Jun 2016
New insights into the human microbiome, the tiny organisms living in and on our bodies
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Unfinished: The Art of the Incomplete
Sat 18 Jun 2016
How do we respond to things that are unfinished or incomplete?
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Talking Rubbish: Clever Ways with Waste
Sat 11 Jun 2016
Advice from a garbologist, a waste expert and a taxidermist about re-using waste
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Resilience: A Survivor's Guide to Adversity
Sat 4 Jun 2016
Why some people and animals adapt to hardship
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When Does Healthy Competition Become Destructive?
Sat 28 May 2016
What is the place of rivalry in human behaviour?
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After Dark: How we Respond to Darkness
Sat 21 May 2016
Exploring how we operate at night and our attitude to the dark
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Brain Drain: Can We Stem the Flow?
Sat 14 May 2016
How can we stem the brain drain from countries who need their talented people?
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Balance: How we Find Equilibrium
Sat 23 Apr 2016
Why balance in humans, machines and music are needed for effectiveness and safety
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Lost and Found
Sat 16 Apr 2016
Can loss be a force for renewal, forcing us to adjust and experience things differently?
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A Single World, Many Identities?
Sat 9 Apr 2016
Turkish novelist Elif Shafak, Nick Bostrom and Ann Phoenix from UCL discuss identity
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The Powers of the American President
Mon 9 Jan 2017
The Constitution, Congress and the US Presidency
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Utopia: Mr More’s Wondrous Islands
Wed 21 Dec 2016
A celebration of Thomas More's Utopia and new short stories inspired by it.
Do you think political or business leaders need to be charismatic? Or do you prefer highly competent but somewhat stern people?
We’d love to hear your views on charm and charisma for a future Forum.
