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Joanna Jepson is an Anglican priest, author, broadcaster and coach, regularly speaking on faith, body image, spirituality and fashion. Despite being born with a congenital jaw defect, in 2006 she set up the first chaplaincy to the British Fashion Industry. Before ordination she was a barmaid, worked with teenage victims of drug and domestic abuse and lived in a Welsh convent. In 2012 she set up a mentor training programme in Louisiana State Penitentiary, America’s toughest maximum security...

To celebrate Christmas on campus, Prof Chris Scott and Pete Castle speak to medieval historian Dr Anne Mathers-Lawrence and economic geographer Dr Steve Musson about Anglo-Saxon parties, how the way we buy presents changes our towns and cities, and the chances of snow in Reading this December.

To mark the start of Tim Peake’s mission as the first official British astronaut on the International Space Station, Prof Chris Scott and Pete Castle are joined by space physicist Prof Mike Lockwood FRS to talk about manned space flight, what space weather is, and how it can cause problems for astronauts. Mike also explains what the ‘FRS’ means (he’s a Fellow of the Royal Society) and how professional societies help academic research. Plus discussion of new research at Reading into the...

This week's Campus of Curiosity, in which we discuss climate change, dinosaurs, and how dull the weather can be in November. All the big issues, and some of the small ones, thanks to the UoR podcast team.

Prof Chris Scott talks to Pete Castle and Prof Amy Smith, Curator of the University of Reading’s Ure Museum, about the celebration of the humanities Being Human Festival; finding books in unusual places; red kites commuting into Reading; and exploring the University’s three museums.