2013-11-18

Derek Hockaday interviews Joe Smith, consultant urologist, 18 November 2013. Topics discussed include: (00:00:17) coming to Oxford, the adoption of pure urology across the country; (00:06:30) start of appointment in Oxford, 7 July 1966, other surgeon colleagues; (00:13:30) establishing urology as a separate subject; (00:14:34) the Churchill Hospital and Radcliffe Infirmary, junior surgeon duties; (00:18:45) Oxford standards compared to other places including University College Hospital, London and United States; (00:21:30) Boder Von Galtz; (00:22:40) micturating cystogram and spinning top urethra; (00:26:12) lecturing medical instruments sales staff about urology; (00:26:55) quality of nursing at Oxford and medical students; (00:29:01) operating theatres and Towler theatres; (00:31:53) Frank Ellis; (00:34:19) national meetings; (00:37:18) giving up general surgery; (00:41:16) interaction with various professors and giving up research sessions; (00:46:54) involvement in first transplantation of kidney; (00:49:08) president of various committees/unions; (00:51:00) development of the Oxford Medical School, 1966; (00:53:44) early childhood in Lancaster, choosing London over Manchester to train and post-qualification. Note the following sections of audio are redacted: 00:08:07-00:08:30; 00:11:26-00:11:34; 00:36:29-00:36:41; 00:43:54-00:44:05; 00:44:43-00:45:40 and 00:48:19-00:48:31.

In this Fertility and Reproduction seminar from 18 November 2013, Robert Pralat of the University of Cambridge investigates how non-heterosexual people discuss becoming a parent with their own parents

The third in our lecture series for Michaelmas Term 2013, given in the JCR at Mansfield College by John Grieve, Chair of the John Grieve Centre for Policing and Community, senior detective and Director of the Metropolitan Police's racial and violent crime

John Micklethwait, Editor-in-Chief, The Economist, gives a short talk for the panel discussion on Journalism and National Security in the Age of Big Data

Sylvie Kauffmann, Editorial Director, Le Monde, gives a short talk for the panel discussion on Journalism and National Security in the Age of Big Data

Iain Mathewson CMG, Associate Fellow, International Security, Chatham House, gives a short talk for the panel discussion on Journalism and National Security in the Age of Big Data

Chancellor of Oxford University, Lord Patten of Barnes, gives a short talk for the panel discussion on Journalism and National Security in the Age of Big Data