Roundness
4 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 3 years ago -Roundness is a cross-disciplinary podcast produced by the Queen's Library at Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet. https://www.qebarnet.co.uk
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Dun dun dun duuun!
May 25, 2021 08:15 - 46 minutes - 106 MBSomething happened in 2020. Well, lots of things happened in 2020. But I'm thinking of something in particular. And really, it's not something that happened, but rather something that didn't. This episode explores how four musical notes came to be so incredibly famous all around the world. For full episode notes, visit: https://shows.acast.com/roundness/episodes Roundness is a cross-disciplinary podcast produced by the Queen's Library at Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet. (https://www.q...
Consider the Pupfish
November 30, 2020 11:08 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MBHigh-speed car chases through the desert. Homemade alcohol. Stolen water. Power cuts. Catholic pilgrimages. This episode travels from Egypt to the Amazon, from Arizona to Portland, from France to Ethiopia — and it's all about one tiny blue fish. For full episode notes, visit: https://shows.acast.com/roundness/episodes Roundness is a cross-disciplinary podcast produced by the Queen's Library at Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet. (https://www.qebarnet.co.uk) Sources: Description ...
Pirates, Prisons, and Plots
June 17, 2020 20:40 - 41 minutes - 38.2 MBIt’s 1665. You’re walking up a hill. It’s quiet, no one about. On your right is what will, in two hundred years’ time, become High Barnet tube station. You keep walking. It’s awfully quiet. Deserted. The buildings are boarded up. A crow caws in the distance. But otherwise it’s quiet, silent. Three stories involving pirates, prisons, and plots to kill the king. For full episode notes, visit: https://shows.acast.com/roundness/episodes Roundness is a cross-disciplinary podcast produced by t...
I Don't Believe in Climate Change
April 22, 2020 16:19 - 26 minutes - 24.7 MBWe use 100 million barrels of oil every day. If we stacked each barrel on top of another, it would take us less than 5 days to reach the Moon. “If we don’t have a planet, we’re not going to have a very good financial system,” Morgan Stanley chief executive James Gorman recently told a US congressional committee. This episode is about the weather, about whether the weather is important (or not), about how we understand big, faceless things like the weather, and about how slippery the truth ...