2012 was a year of contrasts in the UK – austerity, welfare cutbacks, dreadful weather, press intrusion, but we also had the feelgood factor of the Olympics and the diamond jubilee.  Pod Academy’s podcasts tracked these issues, turning to research and academia to explore things in more depth – check out, for example,  Ruth Lister and Fran Bennett on poverty, Angela Phillips on the Leveson Inquiry  and Sunder Katwala on British identity.

In 2013 Pod Academy will continue to look behind the headlines, to give you the backstory on current issues.  If you are an academic with research that you think will enlighten and entertain, that throws new light on stories in the news, contact us at thepod@podacademy.org.