Random Oxford Podcasts

The curators at the University of Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum have been recording bite-sized tales of the wonderful, and sometimes unexpected, life of a museum. We can’t wait to share them with you! Museum Secrets is produced and presented by Lucie Dawkins.

Categories: Arts, History

Tags: art, Ashmolean, behind-the-scenes, curators, Funny, History, museum, oxford, Uplifting

Do people that speak English receive better opportunities in life than those who don’t? How essential is fluency in English when pursuing an occupation in the current climate? In this collection we consider these questions in developing job markets such as Malaysia and China, amongst other countries. This series of films explores the relationship between speaking the English language and establishing yourself within a successful career domestically or internationally, as well as examining the economic and social divisions that can be caused when only certain groups of people are given access to English. This material forms part of The Open University course U214 Worlds of English.

Categories: Education

Tags: chemistry, english, foreign, independence, indians, Kannada, native, oxford, post graduate, research, school, state language, unifying

We used to read and discuss Philip Pullman’s phenomenal His Dark Materials series but now that we’ve completed that adventure, we’re diving into genre entertainment and nerd cultural touchstones. Look for us on YouTube and pretty much anywhere else podcasts are available. Our first episode should drop soon! Please join us and listen!!

Categories: TV & Film

Tags: alethiometer, animation, anime, armored bears, bbc, bolvangar, book podcast, city in the sky, daemons, dust, Entertainment, fantasy, fantasy podcast, film, films, Genre, hbo, his dark materials, his dark materials bbc, his dark materials hbo, his dark materials podcast, horror, jordan college, lyra, magisterium, Movies, nerd, nerdy, oxford, philip pullman, polar bears, roundtable, scifi, svalbard, television, the amber spyglass, the golden compass, the northern lights, the subtle knife, tv, tv shows

Discussing his works chapter-by-chapter and interviewing Lewis experts.

Categories: Religion & Spirituality

Tags: christianity, CS, inklings, jack, lewis, Narnia, oxford

A wonderfully intimate look into the life and work of India Hicks and her extraordinary family. In Season One we’re talking Movie Stars, Matadors and Maharajas as we have tea and cake with Lady Pamela, daughter of Lord and Lady Mountbatten and of course India’s much moved mum. Now in her 90s Lady Pamela’s stories will astound you; she’s first cousins with Prince Philip, travelled the world on the famous Commonwealth tour when Princess Elizabeth became Queen, befriended everyone from Grace Kelly to Gandhi and had a front row seat as her father, the last Viceroy of India, oversaw the complicated process of partition. We ask that if you have listened to this podcast would you be so kind as to consider making a donation to The Princes Trust – a charitable organisation with which India is actively involved. Many thanks. www.princes-trust.org.uk Produced by Lisa Francesca Nand and edited by Alex George.

Categories: Society & Culture

Tags: #bahamas, aristocracy, british, fashion, indiahicks, ladypamelahicks, mountbatten, oxford, Oxfordshire, style, tea, travel

Every object in the Ashmolean has passed from hand to hand to reach the Museum. In a new podcast, we uncover the invisible fingerprints left behind by makers, looters, archaeologists, soldiers, rulers, curators, and many more. These stories of touch reveal the ways in which the forces of conflict and colonialism have shaped Britain’s oldest Museum. Join the Ashmolean’s curators alongside artists, experts, and community members. Fingerprints will be released on the Ashmolean’s website, on Spotify, Apple, and wherever you get your podcasts, weekly from 21 January 2022 until 25 February 2022. Guests include Bénédicte Savoy, co-author of the Report on African Cultural Heritage, commissioned by Emmanuel Macron; Professor Dan Hicks, of Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum; and Simukai Chigudu, one of the founding members of the Rhodes Must Fall campaign.

Categories: Arts, History, Society & Culture

Tags: Archaeology, art, art history, Ashmolean, Ashmolean Museum, Benin, Benin Bronzes, British Museum, colonialism, heritage, History, Museum Studies, museums, oxford, Oxford University, Pitt Rivers Museum, restitution, University of Oxford

‘Will my bacon sandwich kill me?’, ‘Is vaping better than smoking?’, ‘How do you become an astronaut?’ – just some of the Big Questions we ask some of the brightest minds behind Oxford science. Join us in each podcast as we explore a different area of science.

Categories: Science

Tags: algorithms, animals, artificialintelligence, BigData, bigquestions, biology, Birds, brain, chemistry, computerscience, Discovery, earthsciences, engineering, environment, fish, fossils, heart, humanbehaviour, immunology, learning, mathematics, medicalscience, oxford, oxforduniversity, physics, plants, science, Space, Womeninscience

Historian and broadcaster Professor Adam Smith explores the America of today through the lens of the past. Is America – as Abraham Lincoln once claimed – the last best hope of Earth?

Produced by Oxford University’s world-leading Rothermere American Institute, each story-filled episode looks at the US from the outside in – delving into the political events, conflicts, speeches and songs that have shaped and embodied the soul of a nation.

From the bloody battlefields of Gettysburg to fake news and gun control, Professor Smith takes you back in time (and sometimes on location) to uncover fresh insights and commentary from award-winning academics and prominent public figures.

Join us as we ask: what does the US stand for – and what does this mean for us all?

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Categories: Arts, History

Tags: America, History, oxford, Politics, United States