The Conversation Weekly
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The Conversation Weekly

by The Conversation

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.

100 episodes
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1
How the US cloned Iran's drones
28:28 Mar 19, 2026
2
Mystery covid methane spike solved
23:11 Mar 12, 2026
3
Was the Gulf blindsided on Iran?
28:40 Mar 5, 2026
4
South Korea's birth rate is rising, but the population is still shrinking
28:29 Feb 26, 2026
5
The 'national humiliation' behind Russia's war on Ukraine
24:17 Feb 19, 2026
6
How Minneapolis is organising against ICE
25:03 Feb 12, 2026
7
The Super Bowl that kickstarted prop betting in America
23:25 Feb 5, 2026
8
How Iran shut down the internet
28:19 Jan 29, 2026
9
A lost US military base under Greenland's ice sheet
27:58 Jan 22, 2026
10
A new treaty to protect our oceans
21:47 Jan 15, 2026
11
The Making of an Autocrat: co-opt the military
18:29 Jan 4, 2026
12
The Making of an Autocrat: suppress the people
15:06 Jan 4, 2026
13
The Making of an Autocrat: beat the courts
17:11 Dec 28, 2025
14
The Making of an Autocrat: manufacture a crisis
14:26 Dec 28, 2025
15
The Making of an Autocrat: recruit an architect
16:11 Dec 28, 2025
16
The Making of an Autocrat: hijack a party
17:12 Dec 28, 2025
17
Coming soon: The Making of an Autocrat
1:18 Dec 22, 2025
18
Venezuela's plan to resist a US invasion
24:11 Dec 18, 2025
19
How Timor-Leste is fighting back against Asia’s scamming gangs
24:35 Dec 11, 2025
20
Why the US is fixated on South Africa’s white Afrikaners
29:38 Dec 4, 2025
21
The 40 scientists who decide which flu shot you'll get
26:01 Nov 27, 2025
22
How China cleaned up its air pollution
23:10 Nov 20, 2025
23
How early climate models got global warming right
24:11 Nov 13, 2025
24
How organised crime infiltrated Brazil
28:07 Nov 6, 2025
25
Ghosts vs demons: a 16th century Halloween showdown
24:11 Oct 30, 2025
26
Bitcoin buys: the risks and rewards of companies buying crypto
21:52 Oct 23, 2025
27
The hidden sources of forever chemicals
23:46 Oct 16, 2025
28
Nobel laureate Shimon Sakaguchi on his immune system breakthrough
16:10 Oct 9, 2025
29
The diagnosis dimension to the rise in autism
27:01 Oct 2, 2025
30
Pressuring the Fed doesn't end well
27:03 Sep 25, 2025
31
Palestinian statehood: the route to recognition
29:02 Sep 18, 2025
32
The sovereign citizen movement's spread around the world
23:44 Sep 11, 2025
33
How China is weaponising the history of WWII
24:33 Sep 4, 2025
34
The secret ingredients for creative flow
22:06 Aug 28, 2025
35
LSE IQ: is AI destroying the planet?
32:33 Aug 21, 2025
36
Teaching animals irrelevant skills can reveal the secrets of cognition
21:45 Aug 14, 2025
37
How the world got hooked on plastic
28:53 Aug 7, 2025
38
How Rupert Murdoch helped to build brand Trump
27:59 Jul 31, 2025
39
Israel’s secret deal to build a nuclear arsenal
27:03 Jul 24, 2025
40
What will batteries of the future be made of?
26:15 Jul 17, 2025
41
An enduring anti-fascist legacy in Italy
23:42 Jul 10, 2025
42
How Europe dropped the ball on its own defence
31:01 Jul 3, 2025
43
Autism, RFK Jr and avoiding disability surveillance
33:55 Jun 26, 2025
44
Self-censorship and what drives it
31:24 Jun 19, 2025
45
Cash for releasing sharks has a catch
23:12 Jun 12, 2025
46
The 15% solution part 2: can a global tax make the world fairer?
21:38 Jun 6, 2025
47
The 15% solution part 1: why global tax reform is long overdue
26:10 Jun 5, 2025
48
The trafficked American guns fuelling Mexico’s cartel violence
41:38 May 29, 2025
49
New theories of Alzheimer's taking the search for a cure in a different direction
31:46 May 22, 2025
50
After USAID: the future of foreign aid
35:01 May 15, 2025
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