Public lecture podcasts
University of Bath
The University of Bath podcasts are a series of public lectures available to download for free.
Enhance your understanding of subjects ranging from how babies develop to the workings of the universe. Learn from academics and business and industry experts.
The University of Bath is a leading UK insitution. We offer a distinctive blend of research-led teaching, an outstanding graduate employment record and personal development opportunties.
Enhance your understanding of subjects ranging from how babies develop to the workings of the universe. Learn from academics and business and industry experts.
The University of Bath is a leading UK insitution. We offer a distinctive blend of research-led teaching, an outstanding graduate employment record and personal development opportunties.
Episodes
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Jun 4, 2010 • 51min
Professor Alison Walker inaugural lecture: Devices and desires
Organic devices are revolutionising lighting and solar cells, Professor Alison Walker will describe how this change will impact our lives. Light emission from organic materials is not very common in everyday life. However, some living creatures, such as fireflies and many sea creatures, emit light with amazingly high efficiencies.
Jun 4, 2010 • 46min
Climate change: challenge or swindle?
Reverend Professor Ian James questions whether climate change is a challenge or a swindle and presents some of the certainties, complexities and controversies from the science of climate change.
Mar 30, 2010 • 50min
Nuclear explosives: the technology of destruction
Lecturer, writer and editor, Rick Marshall talks about how explosives are made and what to do if they're detonated.
Mar 24, 2010 • 51min
Professor Adrian Hyde-Price inaugural lecture: War, peace and justice
Professor Adrian Hyde-Price from the University's Department of Politics, Languages & International Studies examines the nature and causes of contemporary war and conflict, and considers the prospect of peace in the 21st Century.
Mar 2, 2010 • 1h 1min
Avebury - megaliths and myths
Freelance and professional writer Roger Vlitos examines the theories and myths about Avebury.
Dec 7, 2009 • 52min
Have economists gone mad?
Paul Ormerod, the author of three best-selling books on economics talks about what mainstream economists have to say about the turmoil of world economy.
Nov 23, 2009 • 47min
Lady Miller of Batheaston
Martin Sturge talks about Lady Anna Miller of Batheaston. Mr Sturge is deeply involved with the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution and sponsored the rebinding of a rare volume of Lady Miller's Poetical Assemblies held in the institution's historic library.
Nov 23, 2009 • 1h 1min
William Herschel Society lecture 2009: The cosmic web
Professor Peter Coles from the School of Physics & Astronomy at Cardiff University will talk about the large scale structure of the Universe and the ideas that physicists are weaving together to explain how it came to be the way it is.
Nov 12, 2009 • 53min
Intimations of immortality
Professor Malcolm Johnson from the Department of Social and Policy Sciences at the University of Bath looks at the changing face of death in an ageing society.
Nov 6, 2009 • 56min
Airfields: a phenomenon of the 20th century
Author and archaeologist Bob Clarke charts the progress of aviation through airfields and asks why some stations are located where they are.
