Wole Soyinka: Nobel Prize Conversations
“I won the Nobel Prize so I built a much bigger house than I ever planned.” — Wole Soyinka envisioned a small cottage on a large plot of land as a retreat for his writing, but a phone call from Stockh...
24 Nov 202132min
Didier Queloz: Nobel Prize Conversations
"When people think about other worlds, they think about other life." Nobel Prize Laureate Didier Queloz was a pioneering explorer of exoplanets – planets outside our own solar system – and now he find...
10 Nov 202133min
Joachim Frank: Nobel Prize Conversations
“I make discoveries just because of very unique juxtapositions that I have never seen before. So there is some kind of resonance there.” – The creative and poetic chemistry laureate Joachim Frank alwa...
27 Okt 202136min
Elizabeth Blackburn: Nobel Prize Conversations
Medicine laureate Elizabeth Blackburn has strong feelings about the value of science. In this conversation with Adam Smith, she speaks openly about how society must begin to understand just how import...
13 Okt 202142min
First reactions | Guido Imbens, prize in economic sciences 2021 | Telephone interview
“The only sad thing is there aren’t more hours in the day!” – After a busy, tiring Sunday, mountain biking with the family, Guido Imbens’ Monday morning wake-up call came a little after 2am with the n...
11 Okt 20219min
First reactions | Joshua Angrist, prize in economic sciences 2021 | Telephone interview
“I saw that my phone was flooded with text messages,” says Joshua Angrist, having slept through the calls from Stockholm. In this brief interview he describes how he therefore called the MIT Press Dep...
11 Okt 20217min
First reactions | David Card, prize in economic sciences 2021 | Telephone interview
“I was kinda hoping I might go to sleep!” – David Card had just got his pyjamas on and was heading for bed, after a very late night arrival from a trip, when the call from Stockholm came. This intervi...
11 Okt 20219min
The call from Oslo to Maria Ressa, 2021 peace laureate
World exclusive: The call from Oslo. Hear Maria Ressa’s reaction when she hears the news from Olav Njølstad, Secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, on being awarded the 2021 Nobel peace Prize jus...
8 Okt 20212min
