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  1. Power of the Political Cartoon, The (2008)

    Subject
    History; Media studies; Politics & government

    Video recording of a discussion between political cartoonist Martin Rowson and Willl Self on the history of political satire. Held at the RSA in October 2008. (30 minutes)

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  2. Who is to Blame for the Refugee Crisis? (2015)

    Director
    Abby Martin
    Producer
    Mike Prysner
    Subject
    Politics & government; Social Studies

    Extended news report. Today 60 million human beings are displaced from war and extreme poverty. Many European countries are responding to the crisis with racist hysteria and police state measures. Abby...

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  3. Digital Visualisation and Mapping Communities of Practice (2016)

    Subject
    Information technology; Technology

    Martin Zaltz Austwick of the Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College, London, discusses data visualisation with particular reference to its application in mapping communities. [38...

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  4. Can Economists Forecast Economic Crashes?

    Subject
    Economics

    Professor Sir David Hendry, Director of the Programme on Economic Modelling in INET@Oxford, explains the challenges of economic forecasting. Part of a series of short films entitled ‘Big Questions on the...

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  5. Britain’s Trillion Pound Horror Story (2010)

    Subject
    Economics

    Film maker Martin Durkin explains the full extent of the financial mess we are in: an estimated £4.8 trillion of national debt and counting. It’s so big that even if every home in the UK was sold it...

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  6. Can Nanotechnology Help Cure Cancer? (2012)

    Subject
    Medical sciences; Technology

    What makes a cancer cell different from a healthy cell and how can nano-particles recognise them in order to deliver chemotherapy treatments without side effects? Nanotechnology expert Sonia Trigueros...

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  7. Remaking the Universe: Recreating a Black Hole - Where Art and Physics Collide (2011)

    Subject
    Art; Astronomy; Physics

    While physicists attempt to understand the universe in their own way, Christian Gonzenbach draws on his experience as an artist-in-residence in the lab of Martin Pohl (University of Geneva, CERN) to do so...

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  8. Margaret Thatcher and Pornography

    Subject
    English language and literature; Politics & government

    This podcast explores why 1980s British fiction turned to pornography in order to explore Thatcherism’s contradictions, focusing on Martin Amis’ ‘Money: A Suicide Note’ (1984) and Alan...

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  9. Only Joking - How Humour Makes Us Human (2007)

    Subject
    Psychology

    Audio recording of a discussion about the uniquely human capacity called humour, held at the RSA, London, on 4/7/2007. What evolutionary function does it serve? Is it a source of unity or division, sharing...

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  10. Symmetry, Spaces and Undecidability (2015)

    Subject
    Mathematics

    Martin Bridson, Head of the Oxford University Mathematical Institute, explains why an understanding of possible dimensions is impossible beyond the third dimension. When describing the symmetries of any...

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