Why don’t naked mole-rats feel some kinds of pain and what does this mean for human medicine? 

Simone Eizagirre Barker talks to Ewan St John about his work studying pain and the extraordinary biology of naked mole-rats which is helping us learn about all sorts of human diseases and uncover potential cures or forms of symptom management.  

Find out more about naked mole-rats and watch an animation about them here:  https://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/research/NMRI 

Music by Coby O'Brien
Produced by Rebekah King 

What is a herbarium and why is it important?  

Gregory Miller visits Dr Lauren Gardiner and Dr Edwin Rose at the Cambridge University Herbarium to learn more about this fascinating library of plants, who collected them, and why they are so crucial to the study of more than just the natural world.

Event link here: https://www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/exploring-cambridge-university-herbarium-its-historical-context 

Music by Coby O'Brien Produced by Rebekah King 

How does nuclear energy work and is it the best way forward for powering out future? 

Beth King talks to Susannah Lea, Michael Salvini and Hugh Dorward, three members of the CDT PhD team behind the event ‘the Nuclear Energy Futures Fair: an Insight into the Energy of Tomorrow.’  

Event link here: https://www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/nuclear-energy-futures-fair-insight-energy-tomorrow 

Music by Coby O'Brien

Produced by Rebekah King