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The Conversation Weekly

The Conversation Weekly

How we got here, explained by experts

The Conversation

299 episodesEN

Show overview

The Conversation Weekly has been publishing since 2021, and across the 5 years since has built a catalogue of 299 episodes, alongside 8 trailers or bonus episodes. That works out to roughly 150 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.

Episodes typically run twenty to thirty-five minutes — most land between 24 min and 38 min — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language News show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed earlier today, with 42 episodes already out so far this year. Published by The Conversation.

Episodes
299
Running
2021–2026 · 5y
Median length
29 min
Cadence
Weekly

From the publisher

A show for curious minds, from The Conversation. Each week, host Gemma Ware speaks to an academic expert about a topic in the news to understand how we got here.

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Nobel laureate Karl Deisseroth on how light is changing what we know about the brain

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Could a former IDF chief break Benjamin Netanyahu’s grip on power in Israel?

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Can we ever fully trust AI agents?

Sep 24, 202623 min

Australia's 'barking mad' bet on nuclear submarines

Sep 17, 202620 min

Ratko Mladić: the war criminal who became a martyr for Bosnian Serbs

Sep 10, 202616 min

Inside the booming ‘shadow fleet’ industry keeping rogue states afloat

Sep 3, 202621 min

The music that made Dolly Parton a global icon

Aug 31, 202620 min

How Ukraine is bringing the war home to Russia

Aug 27, 202618 min

How Timor-Leste is fighting back against Asia’s scamming gangs

Aug 20, 202624 min

Loonies and bins: Britain's long love affair with novelty politics

Aug 13, 202623 min

The soviet origins of shadow libraries

Aug 6, 202620 min

A window into the murky world of peptides

Jul 30, 202618 min

Save our brains: how dangerous is sport?

Jul 23, 202616 min

How Manchester shaped Andy Burnham, the UK's incoming prime minister

Jul 16, 202627 min

How celebrities like Taylor Swift are fighting back against AI deepfakes

Jul 9, 202625 min

The anatomy of a super El Niño

Jul 2, 202621 min

Cockroach party hits nerve with angry young Indians

Jun 25, 202625 min

Teens are still on social media, but does that mean Australia's ban has failed?

Jun 18, 202627 min

How the US finally fell in love with soccer

Jun 11, 202625 min

Two scientists on their race to make a new Ebola vaccine

Jun 4, 202622 min
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