Gin and Topic

Slight delay to this week's episode as we experience some technical difficulties

But don't fear, Ben in busy in the background and we'll be back on track next week

In the meantime, there's always gin

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Welcome to the Gin & Topic Tasting Room

This week we're tasting Tanqueray

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We’re talking about community resilience this week 

Exploring the work that Dr Indrani Lahiri, a Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications at De Montfort University, has been doing.

Working with the community, blending different areas, blending different people, much like blending a good gin.

And what better gin to pair this with, than a rather resilient Tanqueray, which has been around for hundreds of years

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Welcome to the Gin & Topic Tasting Room

This week we're tasting Brecon Botanicals Gin

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Why are people worried about brain disease and what can they do about it?

We’ll find out as we talk with Dr Emma Yhnell from Cardiff University all about the brain, how it breaks down and what we can do to keep it fit and healthy

And of course we’ll be asking what role gin should or shouldn’t play in brain health, whilst drinking some Brecon Botanicals Gin

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Welcome to the Gin & Topic Tasting Room

This week we're tasting The Oxford Artisan Distillery Physic Gin

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We may have spent the last couple of years following the vaccine roll out and getting a little obsessed with who’s had what and when we’re eligible for another one.

But what do you actually know about how a vaccine is created, tested and rolled out?

Our guest this week is Dr Sean Elias, an immunologist and science communicator based at the Jenner Institute, University of Oxford, where the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine was developed.

But we’re not just talking about the Covid19 vaccine, Sean has worked on a number of studies and clinical trials testing vaccines developed against a host of different infectious diseases, including Malaria, Ebola and Salmonella both in the UK and in Africa.  

So join us as we explore vaccines from start to, well, not ever really finished.

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Welcome to the Gin & Topic Tasting Room

This week we're tasting The River Test

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Fibre optics. That’s just broadband isn’t it?

Hmm well no

Turns out there’s more to fibre optics than just our ability to stream boxsets. 

As our guest Matthew Partridge, cartoonist and writer for ErrantScience and fibre optic expert will tell us.

With fountains, crossbows, sword swallowers, and the Dorset Police; light going boing boing boing down tubes not tubes, rods and crystals like magic; blowing stuff up and also keeping electronics well away from highly flammable alcohol to help improve gin.

Gin like The River Test which we’ll be drinking along the way.

What an illuminating episode this will be.

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Welcome to the Gin & Topic Tasting Room

This week we're tasting Cape Fynbos

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