Sheffield Café Scientifique
John Stratford (left) in conversation with one of the speakers, Dr Frank Ryan, at a 2008 Café event. (Photograph c/o Pixelwitch Pictures - www.pixelwitchpictures.co.uk)
Listen to MP3s of the radio inserts I've produced for 'The Sound of Science', broadcast on Sheffield Live (93.2 fm).
1. This insert was transmitted on 26/12/08. It was based on the December '08 Café presentation - 'The Quest for Ever Larger Astronomical Telescopes' given by Dr. Richard de Grijs.
Listen (Duration 20 mins)
2. This insert was based on a Café special held in March 2009 that was part of a series of events in Sheffield under the banner Arts-Science Encounters - www.arts-scienceencounters.co.uk. The title of the presentation was 'How to be Creative'.
Listen (Duration 10 mins)
3. This was another Café special produced as part of the Sensoria Festival of Film and Music held in April '09 - title 'Chills, Thrills and other Feeling States'. Dr Nicola Dibben and Dr Anil Sahal explore from a scientific perspective how music is connected to our emotional state.
Listen (Duration 10 mins)
4. Here Prof. Dan Tovey talks about the Café presentation he gave in May '09 called 'Big Science - Big Questions'. In it he gives an overview of the experiments being carried out in CERN with the Large Hadron Collider (particularly the Atlas experiment) and presents the big questions in science that it is looking to probe.
Listen (Duration 10 mins)
5. 'Power is not About Resources, it's About Sex' was the title of this Café presentation given in June '09 by freelance researcher and author Steve Moxon. In this insert Steve discusses his ideas with me and evolutionary psychologist Dr Rick O'Gorman.
Listen (Duration 10mins)
Other links:
soundofscience.wordpress.com
www.sciencecafesheffield.org
www.sheffieldlive.org