In Depth, Out Loud

By The Conversation

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Welcome to In Depth Out Loud, a selection of long form stories written by academic experts for The Conversation in the UK. Each episode brings you the audio version of a different story across a wide range of subjects, from science, to politics, health, culture and business.

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Episode Date
The inside story of the CIA v Russia
Dec 09, 2022
The 12 best ways to get cars out of cities
Jun 22, 2022
How the future of shopping was shaped by its past
Apr 01, 2022
The discovery of insulin: a story of monstrous egos and toxic rivalries
Jan 14, 2022
Climate crisis: how science fiction can inspire humanity’s response
Oct 08, 2021
Wireheading: the AI version of drug addiction, and why experts are worried about it
Oct 01, 2021
Why there aren’t enough trees to offset society’s carbon emissions – and there never will be
Aug 10, 2021
How a Soviet miner from the 1930s helped create today’s intense corporate workplace culture
Jun 30, 2021
Why the concept of net zero is a dangerous trap
May 10, 2021
Durex condoms: how their teenage immigrant inventor was forgotten by history
Feb 12, 2021
Two doctors on the frontline of Liverpool's second wave
Dec 14, 2020
Charles Dickens: the truth about his death and burial
Jun 08, 2020
Lockdown lessons from the history of solitude
May 20, 2020
What will the world be like after coronavirus? Four possible futures
Apr 29, 2020
How to model a pandemic
Apr 03, 2020
Ritalin: a biography
Feb 21, 2020
How a Frenchman born 150 years ago inspired the extreme nationalism behind Brexit and Donald Trump
Feb 04, 2020
Infertility through the ages, and how IVF helped change the way we think about it – podcast
Jul 25, 2018
Decolonise science: time to end another imperial era – podcast
Jun 27, 2018
How the humble potato fuelled the rise of liberal capitalism – podcast
May 30, 2018
How transhumanism’s faithful follow it blindly into a future for the elite – podcast
May 02, 2018
Antisemitism: how the origins of history’s oldest hatred still hold sway today – podcast
Apr 19, 2018
The story of the Novichok nerve agents – podcast
Mar 20, 2018
The heartbreaking story of the flying mathematicians of World War I – podcast
Mar 08, 2018
Africa’s missing Ebola outbreaks – podcast
Feb 21, 2018
Why life expectancy in Britain has fallen so much that a million years of life could disappear by 2058 – podcast
Feb 07, 2018
The IQ test wars: why screening for intelligence is still so controversial – podcast
Jan 24, 2018
How slimming became an obsession with women in post-war Britain – podcast
Jan 10, 2018
Buggery, bribery and a committee: the story of how gay sex was decriminalised in Britain – podcast
Dec 20, 2017
Twenty years on from Deep Blue vs Kasparov: how a chess match started the big data revolution – podcast
Dec 06, 2017
A visit to Pyongyang: the Kim dynasty’s homage to Stalinism – podcast
Nov 22, 2017