Pod Academy

Hollywood screenwriter, Howard A Rodman, talks about how to write a compelling film scene, and says that a formulaic approach to screenwriting has lead to movies that are all the same.

Public services should help people create good health, respecting and drawing on the assets in their communities - passions,perseverance, skills, family, friends - rather than treat them as a bundle of deficits that need remedial treatment.

"Lots of people just passively accept the religious identity they’re born with." Alom Shaha, author of the Young Atheist's Handbook, describes how he came to give up Islam. This is the first podcast in our new series on religion and non belief in contemporary society in partnership with New Humanist magazine.

" I was walking down the central corridor of Liverpool’s Alder Hey children’s hospital when I became aware of the sound of birdsong". Can birdsong help children get well?

We love those stunning images of the dark side of the Moon or colourful nebulae or rotating galaxies. But more and more astronomers are turning off their telescopes and opening their ears to the sounds of space.

George Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier is still a shocking book to read. By revisiting the road to Wigan, this podcast explores to what extent things have changed since Orwell's time.

The remarkable life of A.L Lloyd: folk collector, writer, activist, broadcaster and an influential figure in the British folk revival

Adam Smith takes a tour of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Europe's leading genetics institute, home to the team that made the largest single contribution to the sequencing of the human genome.

Irish feminist filmmaker Pat Murphy talks about the people, ideas, events and contexts that have influenced her work, including Brecht, the Troubles and the long shadow of James Joyce.

Sujatha Fernandes discusses the power of hip hop in political movements around the world.