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On the secrets of human motivation Updated: 2011-12-02 11:08:32 Description: World-renowned pscyhologist, Professor Richard Ryan talks about why video games are so addictive and why people can't wait for the weekend....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Herschel Lecture: Active-Galaxy Jets:An exhausting business Updated: 2011-11-29 16:27:19 Description: Professor Diana Worrall addresses our understanding of the Universe, and the largely uncharted structures that we find when we explore space....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Why do we need Social Science? Updated: 2011-11-21 13:33:22 Description: The Campaign for Social Science SW Regional Roadshow aims to raise the profile of social science in the public, media and Parliament, in context of changes to the funding of teaching and research....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Research in the World: Energy storage: The Missing link Updated: 2011-11-18 13:16:18 Description: Professor Peter Bruce of the the University of St Andrews talks about the need for a step change in the performance of energy storage devices for the future in order to help us achieve a low-carbon world....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GULP: Two great war poets: Gurney and Owen Updated: 2011-11-18 13:14:04 Description: Jon Stallworthy, Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Oxford University and Dr Jane Potter of Oxford Brookes University, discuss the lives of Ivor Gurbey and Wilfred Owen....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Two great war poets: Gurney and Owen Updated: 2011-11-15 13:49:00 Description: Jon Stallworthy, Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Oxford University and Dr Jane Potter of Oxford Brookes University, discuss the lives of Ivor Gurbey and Wilfred Owen....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Journeys in Indigo Updated: 2011-11-15 13:36:07 Description: Dr Jenny Balfour-Paul, honorary research fellow at the University of Exeter and fellow at the Royal Geographical Society and the Explorers Club, tells a compelling story of indigo, the world's oldest, most magical and best-loved dye....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Landscape painter Alan Cotton talks at Bath Updated: 2011-11-14 11:07:46 Description: Alan Cotton, Honorary Professor of Art at the University of Bath, gives his inaugural lecture where he presents stories about people and places from his travels....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GULP: Moon gods, demons and the sacred disease: A history of epilepsy and how we treat it Updated: 2011-11-03 14:24:23 Description: Dr Roland Jones, a neuropharmacologist from the Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology at the University of Bath, will explores the history of epilepsy...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 125 - Towering ambition - Amy Frost - 19/10/2011 Updated: 2011-10-26 09:20:29 Description: Dr Amy Frost of the Bath Preservation Trust provides a deatailed biography of William Beckford...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 124-podbath-DanJohns.mp3 Updated: 2011-10-26 09:16:52 Description: Dan Johns, engineer for Bloodhound SSC, the latest attempt at the land speed World record, talks about his involvement with the project....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 123 - A nice cup of tea - Russell Bowes - 05/10/2011 Updated: 2011-10-25 12:34:55 Description: Garden historian Russell Bowes talks about the horticultural history of the tea bag, from its origins in the foothills of the Himalayas right through to the modern tea bag....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 122 - BIME Lecture - Baroness Masham of Ilton - 07/10/2011 Updated: 2011-10-24 10:07:19 Description: BIME President Baroness Masham of Ilton, who is also the Founder and President of the Spinal Injuries Association, and Dr Elizabeth White, Head of Research & Development at the College of Occupational Therapists deliver the BIME lecture....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Drinking, music, having fun and stuff: The importance of identity and belonging in young people's lives Updated: 2011-07-25 10:50:52 Description: The lecture focused on Professor Griffin's research about young people's everyday lives and what is important to them. She argued that young people are usually most concerned with fitting in, with where they belong in psychological and social term...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The crossroads of global capitalism Updated: 2011-06-17 17:19:12 Description: The first of new series of public lectures entitled 'ways of thinking' that aim to challenge and stimulate new ideas and debate across the University....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inaugural lecture: Crystals, particles & powders Updated: 2011-05-31 15:37:28 Description: Professor Rob Price delivers his inaugural lecture on his research in the field of aerosol science....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Rutherford's Legacy Updated: 2011-05-23 15:18:32 Description: Dr Glenn Patrick of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford looks at how particle physics has developed following Rutherford's discovery and what developments we might expect....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Gerald Walter's Lecture Updated: 2011-05-23 15:18:26 Description: Leading architectural historian Dr Simon Thurley looks at the growing role of the state in the cultural life of the nation in the 40th Anniversary Gerald Walter's Memorial Lecture...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Losing the plot in the era of image: When a picture tells more than a thousand words Updated: 2011-04-28 15:19:36 Description: In his Inaugural lecture Professor Yiannis Gabriel from the School of Management critiques our desire to look for a story in every image....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Great Ideas of Biology Updated: 2011-04-28 10:24:51 Description: In this Founders' Day lecture Sir Paul Nurse, president of the Royal Society, discusses the great ideas of biology....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Creative tensions between science & technology Updated: 2011-04-14 11:28:05 Description: Recent debate on the role and affordability of scientific research has too often been presented as a choice between 'blue skies science' and 'useful' engineering. This public lecture at the University of Bath by Professor Sir Richard Friend on 5 A...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Paralympic Legacy - research in disability and sports exercise Updated: 2011-03-31 09:55:22 Description: Simone Lewis Dr Polly Mcguigan and Dr James Bilzon examine how the University of Bath aims to become a research centre of excellence in disability and Paralympic sport ahead of and beyond London 2012...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Tale of the Tulip Updated: 2011-03-30 15:05:24 Description: Freelance garden historian Russell Bowes brings the story of the tulip to life with power, passion and petals!...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Robots with emotions - do we need them? Updated: 2011-03-10 19:08:56 Description: Dr Joanna Bryson, an expert in machines that have their own artificial intelligence, explores the issues....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The pre-history of Bathampton Down - Bath's Sacred Landscape Updated: 2011-03-10 19:01:36 Description: Dr Rod Thomas talks about a newly-discovered Iron-Age settlement and other findings in Bathampton Down....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Science of Drug Politics Updated: 2011-03-10 18:11:02 Description: Prof David Nutt talks about the regulation of drugs including alcohol and tobacco....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Kew in the digital age Updated: 2011-01-05 13:36:25 Description: Professor Angela McFarlane explores how The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, is using digital media to engage new, global audiences in its science and conservation work....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Monetary policy & the financial crisis Updated: 2010-11-18 10:54:41 Description: Professor Chris Martin investigates the country's current financial crisis looking at the underlying cause, the symptoms and long-term effects....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Our place in the Universe: William Herschel Society Public Lecture Updated: 2010-11-18 10:54:33 Description: Professor John Barrow, Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Cambridge University, sheds light upon the expanding universe and asks what the significance is of its age, shape and size at the annual Herschel lecture....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The arm - engineering for rehabilitation Updated: 2010-10-15 13:56:26 Description: Professor Garth Johnson will describe how biomechanical engineering is improving joint replacement treatment for older people, in this annual lecture organised by the Bath Institute of Medical Engineering....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD UN Ideas That Changed The World Updated: 2010-09-03 14:06:47 Description: Honorary Professor and Research Associate of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex and co-ordinator of the UN Intellectual History Project draws on the 17-volume official history of the UN...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Jumping about in applied probability Updated: 2010-07-13 14:11:56 Description: Professor Andreas Kyprianou from the Department of Mathematical Sciences gives a gentle introduction to probability theory and its pivotal role in current mathematics research....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD |
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