Pod Academy

Can art produce a space where people can create change, make change or at the very least be heard?

The Rio Earth Summit was held exactly a year ago. This interview, made at the time by the Public Library of Science, explores how important, and how contested, are the issues of climate change and biodiversity.

We are all familiar with the idea of the tortured genius. Recent research appears to bear this out, finding a strong link between high intelligence and bi-polar disorder.

Why Latin America has moved from the neo-liberal consensus of the 1980s and 1990s to the 'pink revolution' of Chavez, Morales and Correa over the past 10 years.

Discontent has been building for some time in Turkey. Andrew Finkel explains what is behind the protests sweeping the country.

Michael Douglas has revealed his throat cancer was caused by HPV.

Anosmia is to smelling what blindness is to sight, or deafness is to hearing. It is living with no sense of smell. This podcast is based on a lecture at Birkbeck by photojournalist, Eléonore de Bonneval, who has been documenting the lives of people with anosmia.

The 'precariat', those precarious people who have no secure foothold in the world of work, are a dangerous new class, argues Professor Guy Standing.

The rigid electronics of today will one day seem as clumsy as the telegraph machines of the nineteenth century appear to us. Researchers believe glass computer screens will be replaced by flexible carbon screens that will roll up to look like a pen.

One in ten adults in Britain is in a relationship but not living with their partner. They have no official status and are most often counted as single in government statistics. Listen here to the launch of a groundbreaking research report on people living apart together

To celebrate National Walking Month (May 2013), Pod Academy finds out about nightwalking in London from Medieval times to the Romantics.

If you find Shakespeare's language difficult, help is at hand.

Does it really rob children of their innocence to introduce them to the idea that some people fall in love with members of the same sex? Might it even be important to do so?

Today's hyper-connected world faces big challenges e.g. pandemics, climate change, cyber-crime, financial crises. Can the UN and other international institutions provide adequate global governance?

We report from the AMS Spring Meeting which brings together young doctors, who, inspired by their hands on experience with patients, also undertake clinical research into the causes and cures of a wide range of illnesses.

This podcast is the first in a new series about the latest developments in electronics research - looking at new technologies that will change our lives over the next few years.

Asylum seekers - the role of the media in moulding public opinion.

The UK government is keen to strengthen its trade ties with India. What is the role of universities?

Why did the Malian Army stage a coup? Why did the French send in troops? Françafrique? Get the backstory.

It is 10 years since the invasion of Iraq. Was the war worth it? A panel of speakers including Clare Short, Owen Jones, David Aaronovich and Haifa Zangana debate the issues at Goldsmith's University of London.