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- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qjz5/episodes/downloads
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Current Affairs
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From world leaders to business moguls to entertainers, this long running BBC radio programme offers an insight into influential figures making the news headlines. The podcasts, which are available indefinitely, go back to 2010. Some of the personalities featured in early editions include pop icon Lady Gaga, fashion designer John Galliano and artist Ai Weiwei. Recent editions include, founder of Extinction Rebellion Dr Gail Bradbrook, biochemist Jennifer Doudna, and Sonita Alleyne, who is the first black woman to lead an Oxbridge college.
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- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nq0lx/episodes/downloads
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Current Affairs
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BBC correspondents investigate global events, developments and issues. The collection is updated daily and episodes are available indefinitely. A vast selection of the programmes broadcast between 2007 and 2014 can be accessed via the Podcast Archive section where they are organised by year. More recent episodes are displayed in chronological order by date of transmission. Subject search is not supported, but this drawback is compensated with the guarantee that any time spend browsing will be rewarded with an interesting find. These include: a 50 minute programme on the controversial video This is America by Donald Glover about gun violence, mass shootings, racism and discrimination in the US; an investigation into Burundi-one of the most secretive countries in Africa, an insight into the little known astronomer George Ellery Hale, a look at robot cars filling our roads in the near future, and a report on the Yaba drug which is produced in Myanmar but consumed in Bangladesh.
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- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006r4vz/episodes/downloads
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Current Affairs, Politics and Government, Social Studies
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BBC series examining the ideas and forces, which shape public policy in Britain and abroad. The programmes are presented by distinguished writers, journalists and academics. Recent episodes include How to Kill a Democracy, which looks at how democracies around the world are being dismantled; What are Universities for? which looks at the main purpose of the sector; and Why Are Even Women Biased Against Women, which examines discriminatory attitudes amongst women. There is also The Best of Analysis, where episodes are grouped under specific subject headings including, Economics, British Politics, Global Politics, Political Islam, Education, gender and Identity, Society and Culture, Europe, and Business and Finance.
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- https://audioboom.com/channel/spycast
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Current Affairs, Politics and Government
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- Archives/Museums, Podcasting
Weekly podcast featuring interviews and programmes with ex-spies, intelligence experts and espionage scholars. Hosted by historian and curator Dr Vince Houghton, and published by Author Debriefings, where the latest intelligence-related novels are discussed; Current Events, which deals with intelligence stories in daily news; Real Spy Stories and Secret History of History. Among the top episodes there is an interview with Sven Hughes, a former reserve soldier within British Military Intelligence, who discusses counter-radicalisation and the effectiveness of influence operations.
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- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nrss1
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- Social Sciences
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- Business Studies, Current Affairs, Economics
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Weekly podcast presented by Tim Harford and created by the team responsible for Radio 4’s ‘More or Less’ economics programme. Each episode takes a topical look at statistics and numbers. The episodes are available indefinitely on the BBC iPlayer and are free to download.
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- https://africanarguments.org/?s=podcast
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Current Affairs, Economics, Politics and Government, Social Studies
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- Radio/Sound
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A bi-weekly podcast which explores African politics, economics and culture. The podcasts feature contributions from a variety of guests and deal with individual African countries as well as matters relevant to the entire continent. Sponsored by the Royal African Society
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- https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/keywords/european-union
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Current Affairs, Economics, Law, Politics and Government, Social Studies
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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Audio podcasts on the European Union from the University of Oxford given by the faculty and visiting academics from Britain and Europe. Recent topics have included why Britain should stay in the EU, economic governance in Europe, Syrian displacement, the acceptance of refugees with physical disabilities, forced migration, and far-right extremism. The information on content accompanying the listings is comprehensive and searchable by keywords.
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- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qk11
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Current Affairs, Religious Studies
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BBC Radio 4 series, chaired by Michael Buerk, offering live debate on the moral and ethical issues behind one of the week’s news stories. Recent topics have included Islamic State recruitment in Britain, the morality of debt, and the culture of the victim. Episodes are available for streaming and download for thirty days; selected individual episodes from 2011 are also available. There is no subject search facility.
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- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b036f7w2/episodes/downloads
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- Bio-Medical, Science and Technology
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- Biology, Chemistry, Current Affairs, Engineering, Environmental Studies, General Science, Genetics, Physics, Technology
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- Radio/Sound
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BBC Radio 4 series. Dr Adam Rutherford and guests illuminate the mysteries and challenge the controversies behind the science that’s changing our world. Recent topics have included preserving global biodiversity, zero gravity space, new images of Pluto from the New Horizons space probe and artificial intelligence. The content information accompanying each programme is full but only a summary appears as the title; there is no subject searching facility. Episodes are available indefinitely.
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- https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/the-spectator-podcasts/
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- Social Sciences
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- Current Affairs, Politics and Government
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- Radio/Sound
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- Blogs, Journals, Podcasting, Streaming/Download
The Spectator is a weekly British conservative magazine. It was first published on 6 July 1828, making it the oldest continuously published magazine in the English language. Its principal subject areas are politics and culture. Topics recently debated (October 2015) in the weekly political podcasts include Jeremy Corbyn as the new leader of the Labour Party, the Assisted Dying Bill, China’s economic slowdown and the demise of Christianity in Britain.
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