Cambridge Alumni Podcast

Cambridge Alumni Podcast

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Cambridge Alumni Podcast episodes

  • Churchill and His War Memoirs (clip 3)
    This is a short extract from Professor David Reynolds's lecture at the Alumni Weekend 2006.

    Churchill and His War Memoirs

    Using documents from the Churchill College Archives Centre, historian David Reynolds explains how Winston Churchill wrote his six volumes, The Second World War (1948-54), which still shape our understanding of the conflict.

    David Reynolds, FBA is Professor of International History, a Fellow of Christ’s College and a Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author of seven books, including In Command of History:Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War (Penguin), which was
    awarded the Wolfson Prize in 2004 and listed by the New York Times as one of the 100 Notable Books of 2005.

    2 min
  • Does Russia Exist?
    This is a short extract from Prof. Franklin's lecture at the Alumni Weekend 2006.

    Russia is the biggest country on the planet yet, despite its relative openness since the fall of Communism, it remains one of the most enigmatic. Is it really what we imagine it to be? Indeed, was it ever what outsiders - or even its own inhabitants - have imagined it to be?

    Professor Simon Franklin is a Fellow of Clare College, Professor of Slavonic Studies and the Head of the Department of Slavonic Studies.

    He is also the author of numerous books and articles on Russian history, literature and culture.

    2 min
  • The Puppet Master: How the Brain Controls the Body (clip 2)
    This is a short extract from The Puppet Master: How the Brain Controls the Body

    This lecture will explain the complexity of the brain and demonstrate that a key feature of skilled human motor performance is the ability of the brain to perform optimally in the presence of uncertainty.

    Daniel Wolpert is Professor of Engineering for the Life Sciences at
    Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College. He read Medical Sciences at
    Cambridge and Clinical Medicine at Oxford. After working as a medical
    doctor for a year he completed a PhD in the Physiology Department at Oxford. He then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at MIT before moving to the Institute of Neurology, UCL where he spent ten years. His research interests are computational and experimental approaches to human sensorimotor control.

    1 min
  • The Puppet Master: How the Brain Controls the Body (clip 4)
    This is a short extract from The Puppet Master: How the Brain Controls the Body

    This lecture will explain the complexity of the brain and demonstrate that a key feature of skilled human motor performance is the ability of the brain to perform optimally in the presence of uncertainty.

    Daniel Wolpert is Professor of Engineering for the Life Sciences at
    Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College. He read Medical Sciences at
    Cambridge and Clinical Medicine at Oxford. After working as a medical
    doctor for a year he completed a PhD in the Physiology Department at Oxford. He then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at MIT before moving to the Institute of Neurology, UCL where he spent ten years. His research interests are computational and experimental approaches to human sensorimotor control.

    1 min

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The Alumni podcast features a selection of audio and video materials from the Alumni Office at the University of Cambridge. Catch up with the Alumni weekend lectures, and other events held throughout…