Evolutionary physician Professor Randolph Nesse explores the idea of 'Darwin's eye', and discusses what evolution means for our bodies, our emotions and our behaviour - as well as...

Collection: The Fitzwilliam Museum Podcasts

Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum

Created: Mon 13 Jul 2009

John Brooke, former Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at Oxford University, gives his take on the exhibition 'Endless Forms', and discusses the implications of...

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Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum

Created: Mon 13 Jul 2009

Dr. Gowan Dawson discusses the intriguing representation - and sexualisation - of apes in the nineteenth century, from pickled specimens on display to an eager public to images of...

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Created: Wed 29 Jul 2009

Professor Elizabeth Edwards explores how the emerging mass medium of photography engaged with popular Darwinian ideas in the nineteenth century, and how notions of race, 'type'...

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Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum

Created: Mon 3 Aug 2009

Science writer Dr. Marek Kohn discusses the various artistic reactions to the bleaker side of evolutionary thinking, as presented in the exhibition 'Endless Forms'. Is nature a...

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Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum

Created: Wed 2 Sep 2009

Dame Gillian Beer discusses ideas of poverty, struggle and competition as explored in the painting 'On Strike' (1891), and examines how Darwinian notions of 'the survival of the...

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Created: Mon 21 Sep 2009

"The Passing of Arthur" read by Clive Wilmer (Narrator), Dr Marcus Waithe (Bedivere) and Dr Christopher Page (Arthur)

Collection: Reading Tennyson: A Celebration of the Bicentenary of the Birth of Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Institution: Faculty of English

Created: Tue 1 Dec 2009

Why was the young Darwin's fascination with geology so important for his later work? And why was prehistory so popular in early nineteenth-century Britain? A podcast with...

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Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum

Created: Fri 5 Jun 2009

Alistair O'Neill, Pathway Leader of Fashion History and Theory at Central St Martins discusses the work of fashion photographer Guy Bourdin and his use of mannequin legs in...

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Created: Thu 20 Nov 2014

Dr. John van Wyhe, Director of Darwin Online (darwin-online.org.uk), discusses Darwin's student days at Christ's College, Cambridge in the 1820s, and investigates the young...

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Created: Thu 18 Jun 2009

Sculptor Andrew Lacey and Artist Siân Lewis discuss the process of recreating Nicolas Poussin's "Great Machine". Poussin used his machine to "stage" or accurately rehearse the...

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Created: Thu 27 Nov 2014

As part of our ongoing series of podcasts around the themes of Silent Partners, Steven Connor, Grace 2 Professor of English in the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Peterhouse...

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Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum

Created: Wed 3 Dec 2014

Plant specimens may seem an unlikely starting point for Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection - but, as Professor John Parker investigates in this podcast, the...

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Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum

Created: Wed 24 Jun 2009

Dan Aspel speaks to Prof Herbert Gangl to learn about his unique mathematical jewellery the "Gems of Hypolytos".

Collection: Living Proof - the Isaac Newton Institute podcast

Institution: Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences

Created: Tue 17 May 2022

In the first part of Episode 4 in the Silent Partners podcast series, Simon Schaffer, Professor of the History of Science in Cambridge University discusses automata and the...

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Created: Tue 9 Dec 2014

In the second part of Episode 4, Simon Schaffer focuses on the work of Jean-Martin Charcot in relation to the idea of mannequins and the development of the shop window mannequin....

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Created: Tue 9 Dec 2014

Josh Nall, Assistant Curator at the Whipple Museum of the History of Science discusses the work of Dr. Louis Auzoux and his innovative papier-mâché, anatomical models.

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Created: Tue 16 Dec 2014

What evolutionary purpose does beauty serve? And why does the idea of 'female mate choice' not hold true when it comes to primates and humans? From peacocks' tails to the kinds of...

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Created: Thu 2 Jul 2009

Nobel Prize-winning biologist and Rockefeller University President Sir Paul Nurse takes a tour of the exhibition 'Endless Forms', introducing his personal highlights from a...

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Created: Mon 6 Jul 2009

Caroline Evans, Professor of Fashion History and Theory at Central St Martins, discusses the historically ambiguous relationship between the fashion model and the mannequin.

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Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum

Created: Tue 6 Jan 2015