What? Why? When?

What? Why? When?

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What? Why? When? episodes

  • The Past is a Foreign Country

    In this episode Dr Matt Williams speaks to Jesus students (Amber, 1st year History and Spanish), Angus (2nd year PPE).


    Together they discuss the opening line of the book 'The Go Between' by LP Hartley which starts, "The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there".

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    41 min
  • When Thinking Goes Wrong
    In this episode Dr Matt Williams is joined by Jesus College, Oxford students Anabella (1st year PPE) and Ziki (1st year Music) to discuss thinking, and the ways in which thinking can and has 'gone wrong'

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    30 min
  • Intelligence in Plants
    In this episode, Dr Matt Williams speaks with Oxford students Amy (1st year biology) and Bethan (2nd year Biologist) about 'Intelligence in Plants' from a science perspective.

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    31 min
  • Why Read Stories?
    In this episode, Dr Matt Williams speaks with Oxford students Amber (1st year History & Spanish) and Emily (2nd year Economics & Management) to explore the role of stories, what we can learn from them and what can be done about the current reading crisis.

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    41 min
  • What's the Problem?
    In this episode, Dr Matt Williams speaks with Lewis (1st year PPE) and Ruhi (1st year Biology) to talk about problems: what they are, examples from different areas and why they are considered 'problems' in the first place, in the style of an Oxford tutorial.

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    36 min
  • Absolutely Nothing

    In this episode, Dr Matt Williams speaks to Oxford students Amber and Vinay (2nd year Chemists) about 'Absolutely Nothing'.

    What does it mean for something to be 'nothing', and how do we conceptualise it? Is dark matter 'nothing'?

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    32 min
  • Reasons to be Cheerful
    In this Episode Dr Matt Williams speaks to Oxford students Alana (3rd Year Law) and Arav (3rd year Mathematics) about the concepts of happiness and cheerfulness in the style of an Oxford tutorial.

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    42 min
  • Weird and Wonderful
    In this Episode Dr Matt Williams speaks to Oxford students Nick (3rd year PPE) and Sienna (3rd year Biologist) about all things 'Weird and Wonderful' through the lens of biology and philosophy, in the style of an Oxford tutorial.

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    32 min
  • Beauty, Art and Taste
    In this episode, Dr Matt Williams talks to two Oxford students Brandon and Dorothea about the concepts of beauty, art and taste, in the format of an Oxford tutorial.

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    29 min
  • Why Are There Countries?
    In this episode, Dr Matt Williams speaks to Oxford students Shorief and Skye to unpack the question of 'why countries exist', from a politics, history and law perspective.

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    36 min

About What? Why? When?

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The 'What, Why, When' Podcast is produced by the Access Team of Jesus College at the University of Oxford and hosted by Dr Matt Williams, who is the Access Fellow at Jesus College and…