The Conversation Weekly

The Conversation Weekly

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.

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A tooth that rewrites history? The discovery challenging what we knew about Neanderthals

A tooth that rewrites history? The discovery challenging what we knew about Neanderthals

As we take a short production break in August, we're re-running an episode from 2023 about Neanderthals, and what new discoveries about their research could tell us about Homo Sapiens. For generations...

22 Elo 202427min

Borders and Belonging: is Japan turning into a migration state?

Borders and Belonging: is Japan turning into a migration state?

As The Conversation Weekly takes a short production break in August, we're bringing you a recent episode from our partners at the Borders and Belonging podcast about Japan’s evolving stance on immigra...

15 Elo 202440min

Curious Kids: Why is my dog so cute?

Curious Kids: Why is my dog so cute?

A chance to hear an episode from the first season of The Conversation's Curious Kids, a new podcast where kids from around the world get to ask their questions direct to experts. In this episode: do y...

8 Elo 202420min

Fightback mounts against trade deals fossil fuel investors can use to sue countries over climate action

Fightback mounts against trade deals fossil fuel investors can use to sue countries over climate action

Momentum is growing against clauses in investment treaties that permit companies to sue a state if it decides to keep fossil fuels in the ground. In this episode, we revisit the secretive world of inv...

1 Elo 202428min

New options for managing chronic pain after the opioid crisis

New options for managing chronic pain after the opioid crisis

Chronic pain affects hundreds of millions of people around the world. But the opioid crisis in North America led many health care providers to realize they relied too heavily on drugs to help patients...

25 Heinä 202424min

Can shared experiences bring people closer together?

Can shared experiences bring people closer together?

Across the world, fans will soon be tuning in at all hours of the day and night to watch the Paris Olympics. In a world where on-demand media streaming is now increasingly the norm, sport is something...

18 Heinä 202425min

What next for the French and British right?

What next for the French and British right?

A few days after Labour leader Keir Starmer was elected British prime minister on July 4 with a landslide victory, ending 14 years of Conservative-led rule, a coalition of left-wing parties came out o...

11 Heinä 202440min

Underwater soundscapes of seagrass meadows revealed in new recordings

Underwater soundscapes of seagrass meadows revealed in new recordings

Seagrass, a marine plant that flowers underwater, has lots of environmental benefits – from storing carbon to preventing coastal erosion. In this episode, we speak to Isabel Key, a marine ecologist at...

4 Heinä 202417min

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