The Conversation Weekly

A show for curious minds. Join us each week as academic experts tell us about the fascinating discoveries they're making to understand the world, and the big questions they’re still trying to answer. A podcast fromhttps://theconversation.com/ ( The Conversation), hosted by Gemma Ware.

Brazil’s anti-vax disinformation economy
Apr 24, 2025 – 27:12
The Birkin bag game
Apr 17, 2025 – 25:18
How AI could influence the evolution of humanity
Apr 9, 2025 – 26:55
Ancient cities had hidden disease protections
Apr 3, 2025 – 21:20
Shipping produces 3% of global emissions. How to get that down, quickly
Mar 27, 2025 – 22:01
Prospects of lasting peace between Turkey and the Kurds
Mar 20, 2025 – 25:59
The surreal story of how COVID took over a remote city in the Amazon
Mar 13, 2025 – 32:13
The fossil that proved humanity's common origins in Africa
Mar 6, 2025 – 24:44
Scam Factories Ep 3: Great Escapes
Feb 25, 2025 – 43:36
Scam Factories Ep 2: Inside the operation
Feb 24, 2025 – 38:13
Scam Factories Ep 1: No skills required
Feb 23, 2025 – 32:55
Tariffs: the winners and losers
Feb 20, 2025 – 29:58
How does decentralised social media work?
Feb 13, 2025 – 27:17
Where support for Germany’s far-right AFD is growing and why
Feb 6, 2025 – 36:49
How close are quantum computers to being really useful?
Jan 30, 2025 – 30:09
A wildfire warning from California's Ice Age past
Jan 23, 2025 – 23:57
Silicon Valley’s bet on a future of AI-enabled warfare
Jan 16, 2025 – 32:25
How the world fell in love with plastic without thinking through the consequences
Jan 9, 2025 – 29:12
Brain implants, agentic AI and answers on dark matter: what to expect from science in 2025
Jan 2, 2025 – 37:56
How Zimbabwe reached the point of abolishing the death penalty
Dec 19, 2024 – 26:06
Why distrust in powerful politicians is part of a functioning democracy
Dec 12, 2024 – 27:41
How do animals understand death?
Dec 5, 2024 – 26:43
The story of one Amazon warehouse in the UK that pushed to unionise
Nov 28, 2024 – 32:58
50 years since the discovery of ancient hominin fossil Lucy in Ethiopia, calls grow to decolonize paleoanthropology
Nov 21, 2024 – 27:39
The controversy over cod fishing in Canada
Nov 14, 2024 – 25:35
Gangsters who leave their gang behind for something new
Nov 7, 2024 – 31:50
What is motivating Americans as they decide who to vote for
Oct 31, 2024 – 32:27
Origins of South Australia’s mysterious pink sands revealed
Oct 24, 2024 – 21:48
MicroRNA: Victor Ambros on the discovery that won him the Nobel prize
Oct 17, 2024 – 24:34
Know Your Place: when did class stop predicting the way British people vote?
Oct 14, 2024 – 32:59
What Israel and its neighbours want now
Oct 10, 2024 – 36:12
HIV breakthrough in preventing infection via injection
Oct 3, 2024 – 27:13
Himpathy: the psychology of why some people side with perpetrators of sexual misconduct
Sep 26, 2024 – 23:41
A lonely ancient plant needs a female partner – researchers are using drones and AI to find it
Sep 19, 2024 – 20:27
Why mpox in Africa was ignored for too long and children are dying as a result
Sep 12, 2024 – 30:18
The emotional toll of dating apps and why they're no longer about finding love
Sep 5, 2024 – 29:19
Geoengineering part 2: the case against reflecting sunlight to cool the Earth
Aug 30, 2024 – 31:30
Geoengineering part 1: the case to try modifying the climate
Aug 29, 2024 – 28:32
A tooth that rewrites history? The discovery challenging what we knew about Neanderthals
Aug 22, 2024 – 27:08
Borders and Belonging: is Japan turning into a migration state?
Aug 15, 2024 – 40:38
Curious Kids: Why is my dog so cute?
Aug 8, 2024 – 20:05
Fightback mounts against trade deals fossil fuel investors can use to sue countries over climate action
Aug 1, 2024 – 28:02
New options for managing chronic pain after the opioid crisis
Jul 25, 2024 – 24:25
Can shared experiences bring people closer together?
Jul 18, 2024 – 25:28
What next for the French and British right?
Jul 11, 2024 – 40:17
Underwater soundscapes of seagrass meadows revealed in new recordings
Jul 4, 2024 – 17:44
Don't Call Me Resilient: as war rages in Sudan, a new type of community resistance takes hold
Jul 1, 2024 – 39:18
3D printed guns: unmasking the designer of the FGC-9
Jun 27, 2024 – 26:36
The Brexit roots of the UK's Rwanda asylum plan – and why other EU leaders might want to copy it
Jun 20, 2024 – 31:17
Scientists can't agree on how fast the universe is expanding – why this matters so much for our understanding of the cosmos
Jun 13, 2024 – 24:20

Recent Reviews

Blaboptera

Please do not overdub music-like sounds or sound-effects

The background music is distracting or worse. This is not the only podcast with this flaw. The implication for a presumed need for imposed sounds, such as for shifts in spoken content (paragraphs), is that neither the speaker nor the listener is gifted enough to have the experience plainly, naturally.
Palunargar

Great to hear academic information in a very approachable manner

It’s great to hear information from people from the academy that it’s easy to understand. I have learned a lot about different topics which are not published in the everyday news cycle.
Mr.DWeiss

The Conversation Weekly

This is a great new addition to the podcast world. Relevant, well produced, informative, and interesting with knowledgeable guests and charismatic hosts. I highly recommend joining in on ”The Conversation Weekly.”
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Great Show

Excellent Podcast, great flow and mix of guests.
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Wonderful addition to my pod cast library

Love having these interesting and insightful stories to listen to. Thank you Daniel and Gemma.