King's College London

I think it was the King of France who developed what became known subsequently as the glass delusion.

This is Tom Pollack, a neuropsychiatrist at King's College in London.

He studies the impact of AI chatbots on the mind.

And when I go to speak to him about Jim's experience, he tells me a story.

I just thought I really need to try my very hardest to avoid there being obvious ways where I could get ignored.

So yeah, so I did a master's in composition and I was so grateful that King's College London took me on.

But there's a little bit of a story there because the first time I applied, I got rejected and I was so gutted.

So then I thought, well, how can I get accepted? So I studied an A-level in music, which I did online with Trinity Lab and Conservatoire with a whole load of teenagers.

But I was so glad I did it because it does give you all the skills.

All of the counterpoint lessons I had were really excellent.

And then when I did that, then I messaged King's College London, the Sylvanian Milstein, I went, I didn't suppose you'd reconsider.

And I told her what I'd been up to and I'd been offered a chance to have a composing a retreat by the written peers in opera.

The movement now faces numerous challenges, not least picking a leader and deciding how it will govern.

Earlier today, I spoke with Vuk Fucsanovic, a lecturer in foreign policy at King's College London.

There was always a hope that this time the students can pull it off what the opposition failed for the past 14 years.

And there was this hope that either the students can win or that if the incumbent regime wins, it will be by a narrow margin, which would prevent them from operating in an undisputed fashion as they did before.

I did a year, decided that wasn't for me, so started again.

So I then went to King's College and studied geography and then on to do a PhD in the earth sciences.

Wow.

And then I moved straight into my first academic role, which was the University of Sunderland.

I just immediately knew that that's what I wanted to get into.

So I did my master's in immunology at King's College London.

And then the supervisor that I had for my master's project ended up keeping me on first as a research assistant and then offered me a PhD.

So it's been kind of, I feel like I've been very lucky in the sense that everything has just kind of happened really neatly one after the other.

And this week, we're absolutely super delighted that we've got Dr. Lally Smith.

And Lally is president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and consultant psychiatrist and visiting senior lecturer in the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King's College London.

So welcome to the podcast, Lally.

Yeah, thanks for having me.

I'm Katja Hoyer, a German-British historian and author.

And I'm Christopher Dillon, Senior Lecturer in Modern German History at King's College London.

So that was the instant verdict, Katja, of the Berliner Tageblatt, Germany's most influential newspaper on events in Berlin on the 9th of November 1918.

Mass protest demonstrations that day had climaxed at the installation of Germany's first ever socialist government.

And this is where the real concern comes in.

This is Professor David Betts, a professor of War in the Modern World at King's College London.

And he is an academic studying civil wars, how civil wars happen, why they happen.

And his thesis, which is fascinating, is that we have this perception in the West that civil wars don't happen here.

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Thought for the day, the speaker this morning, Mona Siddiqui, who's Professor of Religion and Society at King's College London.

Good morning.

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