Leymah Gbowee: Encore presentation of Nobel Prize Conversations
"One minute I was a teenager and the next minute I was a woman.” – Leymah Gbowee shares her heartbreaking life story of a happy childhood cruelly interrupted by the Liberian civil war. Nobel Prize Out...
23 Nov 202240min
Roger Penrose: Encore presentation of Nobel Prize Conversations
“I am very bad at giving up.” – Get to know one of the greatest minds of today, physicist Roger Penrose. Even beyond his 90th birthday he seems to be working more than ever and is engaged in various r...
16 Nov 202253min
Emmanuelle Charpentier: Encore presentation of Nobel Prize Conversations
"It's a mixture of obsession, passion, and a sense that this is my mission." In this episode we hear 2020 chemistry laureate Emmanuelle Charpentier speak about the drive you need as a researcher and w...
9 Nov 202231min
Richard Thaler: Encore presentation of Nobel Prize Conversations
Nudges, sludges, and the connection between stubbornness and success. Join us for this encore presentation of our first episode of Nobel Prize Conversations, as host Adam Smith picks the brain of Rich...
2 Nov 202233min
Andrea Ghez: Encore presentation of Nobel Prize Conversations
Meet astrophysicist Andrea Ghez, recipient of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy." In this energy-packed conversation with ...
26 Okt 202241min
Kip Thorne: Encore presentation of Nobel Prize Conversations
What costs a billion dollars and takes 50 years to build and perfect? LIGO: A machine to detect gravitational waves. In this encore presentation of a conversation from Season 2, Kip Thorne confides, ”...
19 Okt 202237min
First reactions | Ben Bernanke, prize in economic sciences 2022 | Telephone interview
“What we’re talking about here is credit.” — In this conversation, recorded the day after the announcement from Stockholm, Ben Bernanke stresses the importance of the financial system as a critical pa...
11 Okt 202213min
First reactions | Philip Dybvig, prize in economic sciences 2022 | Telephone interview
“When I woke up I had what seemed like thousands of messages” — Philip Dybvig’s phone was on silent, so he missed the call from Stockholm. When, half asleep, he did confirm the news, he recalls that h...
10 Okt 20225min
