Prisoners at Chikurubi Maximum Prison in Harare, Zimbabwe.
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Death penalty experts Carolyn Hoyle and Parvais Jabbar explain the route to abolition in Zimbabwe for The Conversation Weekly podcast.
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Political scientists Grant Duncan, talks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about what political trust means and how to rebuild it.
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Philosopher Susana Monsó talks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about how animals understand death.
Amazon workers in the UK are pushing for offiical union recognition.
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Sociologist Tom Vickers tells what happened – and how Amazon reacted – when workers won a vote on official recognition in Coventry. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
Yohannes Haile-Selassie: ‘For a long time, African scholars weren’t part of telling the human story.’
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Yohannes Haile-Selassie is responsible for some of the most remarkable ancient human fossil discoveries in his home country.
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Fisheries scientist Tyler Eddy explains the history of the North Atlantic cod moratorium, and why it was lifted in 2024. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
Former gang leader, Gaz, working on his farm near Makeni, Sierra Leone. Photos taken as part of an upcoming documentary on gangs in Sierra Leone.
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Listen to The Conversation Weekly for an interview with gang expert Dennis Rodgers, and Gaz, a former gang leader from Sierra Leone.
Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK, campaign in Clacton in the 2024 general election.
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Listen to the fifth and final episode of Know Your Place: what happened to class in British politics from The Conversation Documentaries podcast.
What attitudes are Americans taking with them to the ballot box?
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Political scientist Jesse Rhodes speaks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the latest results of the UMass Amherst poll on Americans’ attitudes about Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.
Angela Rayner is sworn into parliament for the 2024 term.
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What does the background of MPs mean for the way they govern? Listen to part 3 of Know Your Place: what happened to class in British politics.
Pink sand made up of garnet rocks on a beach in South Australia.
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Geologist Sharmaine Verhaert explains her search for the origins of pink sand found on beaches near Adelaide on The Conversation Weekly.
Gig economy workers take a break in Chinatow, London.
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More people in modern Britain identify as working class than middle class.
Victor Ambros and his wife Rosalind Lee after he was awarded the 2024 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine.
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Listen to one of the 2024 Nobel laureates in physiology or medicine, Victor Ambros, talk about microRNA on The Conversation Weekly podcast.
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In the second part of our podcast series Know Your Place: what happened to class in British politics, we trace the history of class politics over the past century.
An Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut, on October 6, 2024.
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Middle East experts Mireille Rebeiz and Amnon Aran talk to The Conversation Weekly about the recent escalation in the Middle East.
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The first episode of Know Your Place: what happened to class in British politics from The Conversation Documentaries podcast.
One clinical trial of Lenacapavir found it was 100% successful in preventing HIV infection.
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HIV expert Linda-Gail Bekker talks to The Conversation Weekly about promising results from a trial of a new drug for HIV prevention.
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Samantha Dodson talks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about her research into why some people feel sympathy for men accused of sexual harrassment.
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Listen to the trailer for a new podcast series from The Conversation Documentaries on the relationship between class and politics in Britain.
A mosaic map taken using drones in the search for Encephalartos Woodii in the Ngoye Forest.
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Rsearch fellow Laura Cinti talks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about her quest to find a female version of the endangered E. woodii cycad using drones and AI.