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Classicist James Clackson discusses what we can learn from the ancient Romans and Greeks about the impact of migration on language. How is this relevant to contemporary concerns about immigration and language change?

Professor John Harris of the University of Manchester presents this year’s Sir Hermann Bondi Lecture. With our increasing abilities to manipulate genes, we will increasingly have to tackle the ethical issues involved. Even if governments and other regulating authorities catch up with these issues, the publics they represent or regulate also need the opportunity to do so. John Harris discusses the...

A recent study involving the largest set of trials in criminal justice research found that assaults against officers wearing body cameras were 15% higher than against those without cameras. What does this tell us about the effectiveness of body cameras and how they’re used? Featuring Alex Sutherland (RAND Europe); Barak Ariel (University of Cambridge); and Julian Huppert (Former MP for Cambridge a...

Mouse whistles, dropped in pitch by University of Cambridge

"I'd heard stories about it. I'd heard stories about people entering at night, clandestinely taking out materials, sneaking out again, all under the cover of nightfall... there were plenty of stories of body parts or dead bodies turning up" In a new podcast, Patrick O’Hare describes his time with the clasificadores – the families who scavenge Montevideo’s pungent ‘wastescape’ to recover and classi...

Corbyn! Trump! Brexit! Politics has never been more unpredictable, more alarming or more interesting. From next week (22ND September 2016), a brand new podcast called TALKING POLITICS will be launched to try to make sense of it all. Each week, David Runciman will talk to the most interesting people around: novelists, comedians, historians, philosophers - and even a few politicians - and ask them w...

In what continues to be a historic year of change, the Cambridge Festival of Ideas explores some of the great movements in history and scans the horizon for flows of the future. Join some of the brightest minds and engage with the movement of ideas, technology, people, politics, music and more.

In what continues to be a historic year of change, the Cambridge Festival of Ideas explores some of the great movements in history and scans the horizon for flows of the future. Join some of the brightest minds and engage with the movement of ideas, technology, people, politics, music and more.

In what continues to be a historic year of change, the Cambridge Festival of Ideas explores some of the great movements in history and scans the horizon for flows of the future. Join some of the brightest minds and engage with the movement of ideas, technology, people, politics, music and more.

In what continues to be a historic year of change, the Cambridge Festival of Ideas explores some of the great movements in history and scans the horizon for flows of the future. Join some of the brightest minds and engage with the movement of ideas, technology, people, politics, music and more.

In what continues to be a historic year of change, the Cambridge Festival of Ideas explores some of the great movements in history and scans the horizon for flows of the future. Join some of the brightest minds and engage with the movement of ideas, technology, people, politics, music and more.

In what continues to be a historic year of change, the Cambridge Festival of Ideas explores some of the great movements in history and scans the horizon for flows of the future. Join some of the brightest minds and engage with the movement of ideas, technology, people, politics, music and more.

In what continues to be a historic year of change, the Cambridge Festival of Ideas explores some of the great movements in history and scans the horizon for flows of the future. Join some of the brightest minds and engage with the movement of ideas, technology, people, politics, music and more.

In what continues to be a historic year of change, the Cambridge Festival of Ideas explores some of the great movements in history and scans the horizon for flows of the future. Join some of the brightest minds and engage with the movement of ideas, technology, people, politics, music and more.

In what continues to be a historic year of change, the Cambridge Festival of Ideas explores some of the great movements in history and scans the horizon for flows of the future. Join some of the brightest minds and engage with the movement of ideas, technology, people, politics, music and more.

In what continues to be a historic year of change, the Cambridge Festival of Ideas explores some of the great movements in history and scans the horizon for flows of the future. Join some of the brightest minds and engage with the movement of ideas, technology, people, politics, music and more.

In what continues to be a historic year of change, the Cambridge Festival of Ideas explores some of the great movements in history and scans the horizon for flows of the future. Join some of the brightest minds and engage with the movement of ideas, technology, people, politics, music and more.

In what continues to be a historic year of change, the Cambridge Festival of Ideas explores some of the great movements in history and scans the horizon for flows of the future. Join some of the brightest minds and engage with the movement of ideas, technology, people, politics, music and more.

In what continues to be a historic year of change, the Cambridge Festival of Ideas explores some of the great movements in history and scans the horizon for flows of the future. Join some of the brightest minds and engage with the movement of ideas, technology, people, politics, music and more.

In what continues to be a historic year of change, the Cambridge Festival of Ideas explores some of the great movements in history and scans the horizon for flows of the future. Join some of the brightest minds and engage with the movement of ideas, technology, people, politics, music and more.

In what continues to be a historic year of change, the Cambridge Festival of Ideas explores some of the great movements in history and scans the horizon for flows of the future. Join some of the brightest minds and engage with the movement of ideas, technology, people, politics, music and more.

In what continues to be a historic year of change, the Cambridge Festival of Ideas explores some of the great movements in history and scans the horizon for flows of the future. Join some of the brightest minds and engage with the movement of ideas, technology, people, politics, music and more.

In what continues to be a historic year of change, the Cambridge Festival of Ideas explores some of the great movements in history and scans the horizon for flows of the future. Join some of the brightest minds and engage with the movement of ideas, technology, people, politics, music and more.

In what continues to be a historic year of change, the Cambridge Festival of Ideas explores some of the great movements in history and scans the horizon for flows of the future. Join some of the brightest minds and engage with the movement of ideas, technology, people, politics, music and more.

In what continues to be a historic year of change, the Cambridge Festival of Ideas explores some of the great movements in history and scans the horizon for flows of the future. Join some of the brightest minds and engage with the movement of ideas, technology, people, politics, music and more.