Gin and Topic

Slight delay to this week's episode as we experience some technical difficulties But don't fear, Ben in busy in the background and we'll be back on track next week In the meantime, there's always gin Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/gin-and-topic . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the Gin & Topic Tasting Room This week we're tasting Tanqueray Cheers Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/gin-and-topic . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We’re talking about community resilience this week  Exploring the work that Dr Indrani Lahiri, a Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications at De Montfort University, has been doing. Working with the community, blending different areas, blending different people, much like blending a good gin. And what better gin to pair this with, than a rather resilient Tanqueray, which has been around for...

Welcome to the Gin & Topic Tasting Room This week we're tasting Brecon Botanicals Gin Cheers Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/gin-and-topic . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Why are people worried about brain disease and what can they do about it? We’ll find out as we talk with Dr Emma Yhnell from Cardiff University all about the brain, how it breaks down and what we can do to keep it fit and healthy And of course we’ll be asking what role gin should or shouldn’t play in brain health, whilst drinking some Brecon Botanicals Gin Cheers Support this show http://supporter...

Welcome to the Gin & Topic Tasting Room This week we're tasting The Oxford Artisan Distillery Physic Gin Cheers Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/gin-and-topic . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We may have spent the last couple of years following the vaccine roll out and getting a little obsessed with who’s had what and when we’re eligible for another one. But what do you actually know about how a vaccine is created, tested and rolled out? Our guest this week is Dr Sean Elias, an immunologist and science communicator based at the Jenner Institute, University of Oxford, where the Oxford A...

Welcome to the Gin & Topic Tasting Room This week we're tasting The River Test Cheers Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/gin-and-topic . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Fibre optics. That’s just broadband isn’t it? Hmm well no Turns out there’s more to fibre optics than just our ability to stream boxsets.  As our guest Matthew Partridge, cartoonist and writer for ErrantScience and fibre optic expert will tell us. With fountains, crossbows, sword swallowers, and the Dorset Police; light going boing boing boing down tubes not tubes, rods and crystals like magi...

Welcome to the Gin & Topic Tasting Room This week we're tasting Cape Fynbos Cheers Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/gin-and-topic . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With Plastic Free Month drawing to an end and the UK hitting record temperatures earlier this week, it seems fitting that we’re talking about Plastic Pollution. We’ll be joined by Teresa Perez, a research associate at the Royal Holloway, University of London.  She’ll be talking about the work that she was involved with as part of Cambridge circular plastic centre as we explore how recycling h...

Welcome to the Gin & Topic Tasting Room This week we're tasting Whitby Gin Cheers Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/gin-and-topic . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What can you tell from a fossil? What about how the animal moved, fed, or interacted with others? This week’s guest, Emily Rayfield a Professor in Palaeobiology from the University of Bristol, is going to talk to us all about how computers have helped our understanding of these extinct animals. Animals like the ammonite on the bottom of this week’s gin bottle from the fossil rich beach of Whitby....

Welcome to the Gin & Topic Tasting Room This week we're tasting Sainsburys’ Taste the Difference Blackfriars Gin Cheers Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/gin-and-topic . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We’ve been high street shopping this week, for both our gin, and the topic. First to Sainsbury’s for their Taste the Difference Blackfriars Gin, and then on to WHSmiths for a Mills and Boon book! This week we’re talking with Dr Val Derbyshire, from the University of Derby, about Mills and Boon romance novels. And the question we'll be asking is simply, whether or not we should read them? So, liste...

Welcome to the Gin & Topic Tasting Room This week we're tasting Caleño Cheers Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/gin-and-topic . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We’re back! And leading the way with our first episode is Dr Shima Barakat, Director of the Entrepreneurship for Sustainability Programme at the University of Cambridge. She’ll be talking to us about Leading for Sustainability: What do we need to lead a transformation towards sustainable systems? While we ease ourselves gently back in with a non-alcoholic glass of Caleño. And of course, we’ll be q...

At the end of a series, Ben has a lot of evidence to show quite how unprofessional our approach to this podcast truly is. And because we like to over share, we thought you might enjoy listening to some of the behind the scenes stuff that Ben has to cut out. Enjoy Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/gin-and-topic . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Another series over, another box of empty bottles to recycle. And as each one lands in the bin, we're reminded about each conversation that we had. But, just like not being able to drink the whole bottle of gin in one sitting, we couldn't include all of the conversation in the main episodes. So Ben has been keeping the leftovers safe for us So that we could put together a little extra episode for...

Welcome to the Gin & Topic Tasting Room This week we're tasting Sharish gin from Portugal Cheers Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/gin-and-topic . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For our final episode of this series, we’re heading overseas and back in time to find out what stone tools can tell us about past humans? We’ll be talking with Emily Hallinan, an archaeologist at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Archaeology and Evolution of Human Behaviour, at the University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal.  Not only about her expertise in old rocks, but also in gin, as Emily also...

Welcome to the Gin & Topic Tasting Room This week we're tasting Lind and Lime Cheers Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/gin-and-topic . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our question this week is: How does invisible light from across the electromagnetic spectrum help us understand the history of our Universe?  Yes, we know, that does sound like an unusually intelligent question for us. And what we really want to know is: Why do astronomers need so many different telescopes? So this week we’re talking with Jo Ramasawmy an astrophysicist and AtLAST scientist at...

Welcome to the Gin & Topic Tasting Room This week we're tasting an Apple and Blackberry gin from the Lancashire Gin Family Cheers Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/gin-and-topic . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Can you remember that point during adolescence when you came of age? You know, the kind of experience that you read about in books, when you struggle thorough something and come out the other end having grown up. No? Nor can we.  So this week we’re talking all about Coming of Age with Nic Hilton, a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge, asking what is maturation and why are YA books ob...