4 episodes
Insight Cambridge Insightcambridge
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- Society & Culture
Student-run podcast taking you inside Cambridge University to investigate world events. Less heat, more light.
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Free Speech under Threat?
Dr Arif Ahmed, philosopher and member of the Free Speech Union, explains why he thinks free speech is under attack both inside and outside university, and why we should care.
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Brexit: What now now we're out?
Brexit-related thoughts on the past four years and the future with Brexiteers Prof Robert Tombs and Dr Graham Gudgin, founders of Briefings of Britain.
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Prof Gerstle on Trump
Gary Gerstle, the Paul Mellon Professor of American History, gives us his take on the years 2016-2020, touching on Trump, race and how the US Constitution makes it possible for minorities of voters to overrule the majority.
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Decolonise! But how?
What is a 'whitecentric' curriculum? What does it mean to 'decolonise' a university? How much can you separate what is taught from who teaches it? Insight Cambridge speaks to those active in the Decolonisation movement to find answers to these questions and more at a time when many feel that the struggle for racial equality has a long way to go and others feel that Western history is in danger of being senselessly rewritten.