Coronavirus and ‘Disease X’ |
Professor Peter Millican interviews the Oxford scientists working at the forefront of research into Disease X |
Peter Millican, Sarah Gilbert, Peter Horby, Jimmy Whitworth, John Bell, Erica Charters |
14 January, 2021 |
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Ebola |
Professor Peter Millican begins the final episode of this series in 2014, at the onset of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. |
Peter Millican, Kevin Decock, Katie Ewer, Brian Angus, Blanche Oguti |
14 January, 2021 |
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HIV/AIDS |
In the ninth episode of our History of Pandemics season, Professor Peter Millican leaves the perils of influenza behind, only to discover an entirely new virus: HIV. |
Peter Millican, Harold Jaffe, John Frater, Kevin Decock, Jimmy Whitworth |
14 January, 2021 |
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The 'Spanish' Flu |
Professor Peter Millican arrives in the twentieth century, during the last years of the Great War, to a pandemic which you may have read a lot about during the early coverage of our current COVID outbreak. |
Peter Millican, John Oxford, Brian Angus, Claas Kirchhelle |
14 January, 2021 |
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'Russian' Flu: the pandemic that wasn't? |
In this episode, Professor Peter Millican discusses a controversial outbreak... |
Peter Millican, Julia Mannherz, Claas Kirchhelle, Brian Angus, Blanche Oguti |
14 January, 2021 |
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Cholera |
Professor Peter Millican makes it to the nineteenth century to discuss the achievements of John Snow |
Peter Millican, Claas Kirchhelle, Brian Angus, Blanche Oguti |
14 January, 2021 |
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Smallpox, and Jenner |
Welcome to the eighteenth century, at a point when Europe is going through another major smallpox outbreak, a disease that by this point has been plaguing populations around the globe for centuries. |
Peter Millican, Claas Kirchhelle, Brian Angus, Blanche Oguti, Erica Charters |
1 December, 2020 |
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The Great Plague |
in the final plague episode of the series, Professor Peter Millican talks to his guests about the last major outbreak of this horrific disease in seventeenth-century England. |
Peter Millican, Paul Slack, Emma Smith, Kees Windland |
1 December, 2020 |
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The Black Death |
Professor Peter Millican arrives in the fourteenth century and meets history's most notorious plague outbreak. |
Peter Millican, Samuel Cohn, Blanche Oguti |
1 December, 2020 |
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The Plague of Justinian |
Welcome to the Eastern Roman Empire in the sixth century. This time, Professor Peter Millican discusses a plague that historians and medical experts agree was likely the first plague pandemic humanity experienced. |
Peter Millican, Michael McCormick, Abigail Buglass |
1 December, 2020 |
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Athens: the first plague? |
Join Professor Peter Millican in 5th century Athens, a crowded city in the midst of a siege, where a devastating disease had just erupted. |
Peter Millican, Tim Rood, Brian Angus, Blanche Oguti, Nicolette D'Angelo |
1 December, 2020 |
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Mark Carney on Climate Change |
Professor Millican travels to the Bank of England to interview its Governor, Mark Carney. |
Peter Millican, Mark Carney |
20 December, 2019 |
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Solving climate change - nature or technology? |
Solving climate change can involve either mitigation – reducing the greenhouse gases we're putting into the atmosphere – or adaptation – the process of adjusting to our changing environment. |
Peter Millican, Nathalie Seddon, Jim Hall, Helen Gavin |
20 December, 2019 |
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Is climate conflict inevitable? |
In this Futuremakers episode we ask experts the question - is climate conflict inevitable? |
Peter Millican, Kate Guy, Troy Sternberg |
13 December, 2019 |
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Climate change - who should we sue? |
In this episode of Futuremakers, we’re asking what does a rise in litigious climate action mean for society as we race to meet climate targets? |
Peter Millican, Fredi Otto, Liz Fisher, Myles Allen |
13 December, 2019 |
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Can we be green AND capitalist? |
In this episode we ask; can we be green AND capitalist? |
Peter Millican, Ben Caldecott, Thomas Hale, Charmain Love, Johan Rockström |
28 November, 2019 |
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Should nuclear power be part of our energy system? |
Should nuclear power be part of our energy system? Join our host, philosopher Peter Millican, as he explores this topic with experts from Oxford. |
Peter Millican, Nick Eyre, Sarah Darby, James Marrow |
28 November, 2019 |
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What did the Paris Climate Agreement change? |
What did the Paris 2015 Climate Agreement change? what did the politicians at Paris actually achieve? |
Peter Millican, Fredi Otto, Richard Miller, Sugandha Srivastav |
7 November, 2019 |
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Climate change: do individual actions matter? |
Is there still potential for actions on an individual level to shape the future of the planet? |
Peter Millican, Susan Jebb, Tina Fawcett, Tristram Walsh |
28 October, 2019 |
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How do you build a greener country? |
What does the current infrastructure in the UK look like, and how far is it from where we need to be to meet our international commitments? |
Peter Millican, Cameron Hepburn, April Burt, Alison Smith |
28 October, 2019 |
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Climate change and politics - why haven’t we done more? |
With the IPCC warning that policymakers have limited time to keep global warming to a maximum of 1.5° C - why haven’t we done more? |
Peter Millican, Caroline Lucas, Ryan Rafaty, Tristram Walsh |
28 October, 2019 |
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Twelve years to climate disaster? |
The IPCC’s 2018 Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C broke into the public consciousness through media reporting that we only had twelve years to limit climate change catastrophe. |
Peter Millican, James Painter, Myles Allen, Helen Johnson |
28 October, 2019 |
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Could quantum computing change the world? |
Peter Millican tries to discover the truth about a global race to develop the world’s first scalable quantum. |
Peter Millican, Peter Leek, David Deutsch, Vera Schafer, David Lucas, Simon Benjamin, Tyson Jones, Natalia Ares, Jason Smith, Andrew Briggs, Chris Timpson, Jamie Vicary, Ali El Kaafarani |
11 April, 2019 |
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Season Finale: AI selection box |
In the final episode of our series, we’re looking back at the themes we’ve discussed so far, and forward into the likely development of AI. |
Gil McVean, Sandra Wachter, Nigel Shadbolt, Peter Millican |
8 January, 2019 |
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Is China leading the way in AI? |
In the penultimate episode of series one of Futuremakers, we’re looking at the development of AI across the globe. |
Peter Millican, Mike Wooldridge, Xiaorong Ding, Sophie-Charlotte Fischer |
19 December, 2018 |
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What does AI mean for the future of humanity |
Join our host, philosopher Professor Peter Millican, as he explores this topic with three experts from Oxford University. |
Peter Millican, Allan Dafoe, Mike Osborne, Jade Leung |
12 December, 2018 |
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Has AI changed the way we find the truth? |
Around the world, automated bot accounts have enabled some government agencies and political parties to exploit online platforms in dispersing fake messages. |
Peter Millican, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Vidya Narayanan, Mimie Liotsiou |
6 December, 2018 |
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From Ada Lovelace to Alan Turing, the birth of AI? |
Many developments in science are achieved through people being able to ‘stand on the shoulders of giants’ and in the history of AI two giants in particular stand out. |
Peter Millican, Ursula Martin, Andrew Hodges, Jacob Ward |
19 November, 2018 |
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Does AI have a gender? |
Join our host, philosopher Peter Millican, as he explores the topics of gender and AI. |
Peter Millican, Gina Neff, Carissa Véliz, Sian Brooke |
12 November, 2018 |
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Is AI good for our health? |
Join our host, philosopher Peter Millican, as he explores the topic "Is AI good for our health?" |
Peter Millican, Alison Noble, Paul Leeson, Jessica Morley |
2 November, 2018 |
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Is the banking sector about to change for ever? |
AI is already playing a role in the finance sector, from fraud detection, to algorithmic trading, to customer service, and many within the industry believe this role will develop rapidly within the next few years. |
Peter Millican, Stephen Roberts, Nir Vulkan, Jannes Klaas |
22 October, 2018 |
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Are all algorithms biased? |
Our lives are increasingly shaped by automated decision-making algorithms, but do those have in-built biases? If so, do we need to tackle these, and what could happen if we don't? |
Peter Millican, Sandra Wachter, Helena Webb, Brent Mittelstadt |
22 October, 2018 |
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How will the automation of jobs likely progress? |
In 2013 two Oxford academics published a paper entitled 'The Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs to Computerisation?', estimating that 47% of U.S. jobs were at risk of automation. |
Peter Millican, Mike Osborne, Judy Stephenson, David Clifton |
22 October, 2018 |
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Trailer: season one launching 22nd October! |
Down winding streets, beyond the dreaming spires, inside the college walls, debates are happening - in every study room and lecture theatre - about the future of society. Futuremakers, from the University of Oxford, invites you to that debate. |
Peter Millican |
16 October, 2018 |
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