The Forum Podcast
The programme that explains the present by exploring the past.
Episodes to download
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How Shyness and Introversion can be a Strength
Sat 17 Sep 2016
Are shyness and introversion cultural or innate; do they help us negotiate today鈥檚 world?
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Underground: How Deep Can Life Survive?
Sat 3 Sep 2016
Exploring the mysteries of the biosphere below the earth鈥檚 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鈥檙e 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鈥檚 Wondrous Islands
Wed 21 Dec 2016
A celebration of Thomas More's Utopia and new short stories inspired by it.
