Dr Mark Miodownik – How to Make The Perfect Cup Of Coffee

Mark Miodownik: How to make the perfect cup of coffee.

What elements are involved in the making of a simple beverage. The Director of the Materials Library and Head of the Materials Research Group at King’s College London provides an audibly practical demonstration of the answer.

Visit http://www.materialslibrary.org.uk

Duration: 43:10.

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Dr Magnus Marsden – Muslim Village Intellectuals

Magnus Marsden: Muslim village intellectuals.

An account of “Islamisation” in Northern Pakistan based on ten years of field work by Dr Marsden of the School of Oriental and African Studies.

http://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff36079.php

Duration: 45.11.

http://audio.resonancefm.com/Free_University/The_Free_University_of_the_Airwaves_Muslim_Village_Intellectuals.mp3

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Prof Christine Kinnon – An Introduction To Gene Therapy

Christine Kinnon: An Introduction to Gene Therapy and Molecular Immunology.

Prof Christine Kinnon is Theme Leader in Infection & Immunity, UCL Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust.

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http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/ich/academicunits/Molecular_immunology/Homepage

Duration: 16:00.

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Dr Aeriel Hessayon – On The Jews In England

Ariel Hessayon: The Jews in England from their expulsion in 1290 to their readmission in 1659. Dr Hessayon is based at Goldsmiths’ Department of History.
For recommended further reading see the FUoTA page at http://resonancefm.com/free-university/thursday-21st-august
Duration: 56:53.

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A C Grayling provides the keynote address for this year’s FUoTA.

AC Grayling is Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London, and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford.

Visit www.acgrayling.com/

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Prof Steven Conner – A History Of The Air

What are our relations to the air and how have they changed over the last 100 or 200 years?

Professor Connor is the Academic Director, London Consortium School of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College, London. http://www.stevenconnor.com/

Duration: 37:23.

Dr Ed Baxter: De Quincey Gets Stoned.

The programming director of Resonance FM and co-editor of the Works of Thomas De Quincey discusses the essayist’s autobiographical sequence “A Sketch from Childhood” (1851, 1852).

http://www.pickeringchatto.com/major_works/