The Conversation Weekly

Education Podcasts

A show for curious minds, from The Conversation. Each week, host Gemma Ware speaks to an academic expert about a topic in the news to understand how we got here.

Episodes

How Manchester shaped Andy Burnham, the UK's incoming prime minister

How celebrities like Taylor Swift are fighting back against AI deepfakes

The anatomy of a super El Niño

Cockroach party hits nerve with angry young Indians

Teens are still on social media, but does that mean Australia's ban has failed?

How the US finally fell in love with soccer

Two scientists on their race to make a new Ebola vaccine

The salt caverns used to stockpile oil

Argentina’s inflation ‘miracle’ is more of a mirage

The conspiracy theorists who feel vindicated by the Epstein files

China’s long game on Trump’s tariffs

Trump v Leo: the war of words over a just war

Israel’s history shapes how it wages war

How former insider Péter Magyar ousted Hungary’s Viktor Orbán

The pseudoscientific scale looksmaxxers use to rate each other

The Making of One Nation: the unlikely rise of Australia’s Pauline Hanson

Artemis II: NASA’s long road back to the Moon

How the US cloned Iran's drones

Mystery covid methane spike solved

Was the Gulf blindsided on Iran?