Episodes

  • Daddy I Need Your Money

    Daddy I Need Your Money
    Sep 27 2023

    In this first episode of We're Not Kids Anymore's Oppenheimer Special we hear from nuclear physicist Dr Laetitia Canete and historian Asst Professor Elizabeth Ingleson on how the period of history that Oppenheimer lived through saw science become more focused and prescriptive, just as the progressive era analysed and compartmentalised people social and racially.

    As ever, the episode is bridged with the inane observations of Extradition Order's Rosie Beard and Alastair Harper.

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    16 mins
  • A New Set of Rules

    A New Set of Rules
    Oct 4 2023

    An acceleration of discovery and delivery, exploring the militarisation of scientific life and the move of Oppenheimer’s scientific life from one of borderless theoretical discovery to being the tool of a nation state delivering the practical outcomes he was ordered to. In this second episode, nuclear physicist Dr Laetitia Canete and historian Asst Professor Elizabeth Ingleson take us through how the world leading work of Einstein became out of date moments after discovery and how fission was discovered by Otto Hahn, Fritz Strassmann and Lise Meitner. What were the contributions of individuals like Heisenberg and Pauli, and what were the social and scientific consequences. As ever, the episode is bridged with the inane observations of Extradition Order's Rosie Beard and Alastair Harper.

    Whoop.

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    13 mins
  • Fat Boy, Thin Man

    Fat Boy, Thin Man
    Oct 11 2023
    It's time! Nuclear physicist Dr Laetitia Canete explains the practical side of what was needed to drop the bomb and, at the same time, historian Asst Professor Elizabeth Ingleson explores whether it was actually needed to be done and whether another decision was really considered. As ever, the episode is bridged with the inane observations of Extradition Order's Rosie Beard and Alastair Harper.

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    15 mins
  • Manhattan

    Manhattan
    Oct 18 2023
    In the final episode of We're Not Kids Anymore's Oppenheimer special, nuclear physicist Dr Laetitia Canete discusses her personal and professional thoughts on the aftermath of the dropping of the bomb and what it means for her work. Meanwhile historian Asst Professor Elizabeth Ingleson looks at the social and political consequences that followed. Extradition Order's Rosie Beard and Alastair Harper top and tail and will be back once against to tell the story of poet of the appetites, MFK Fisher!

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    19 mins