COVID-19

Chinese director Nanfu Wang’s newest documentary, In the Same Breath, follows the unfolding chaos, fear and misinformation of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China and the United States, beginning on New Year’s 2020. Known for One Child…

For us lucky singletons, the pandemic presents yet another obstacle to finding one’s one true love (or a hook up, whichever way you are inclined). As someone who has found themselves the perfect Victorian style romantic pen pal, I feel I…

It is just the monotony of life. We are into our third lockdown, and it feels like it is simultaneously our first, yet somehow also our fifth. Time is standing still, but life is passing us by. The last social interactions we may have had…

I’m in a cottage by Coney Island, looking out at a relentless and grey Irish sea. I’ve come here to the natural fringe of the island to try and process what has been the strangest of years. The beach is a mere ten metres away across a…

We spend a lot of time on I Know That Face looking back into the past. For our last episode of 2020 we thought it'd be fun to look forward to next year and all the great movies we'll hopefully get to see - from the return of old masters…

This week on Basically... Stefanie sits down with her fabulously high-achieving contemporary, Minister for Higher Education, Simon Harris. They talk about politics, politics in a pandemic (as well as being Minister for Health in a…

In the mid '90s Amey was well on her way to a successful career in music when fate intervened. After giving birth to her daughter, Amey developed crippling postnatal depression. Her band broke up, leading to a period of alcohol and drug…

With the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic, the attendant stress associated with the disease has led to recent headlines in the news such as “No socks for your children,” “no wreaths for your graves” and “put Grandpa by the window.” The…

In this episode, we talk to Dr Netha Hussain, a medical doctor with a PhD in neurobiology and an active member of WikiProject Medicine and WikiProject COVID-19. ? We discuss who should be editing Wikipedia and the Manual of Style. Our…

This week on Basically... Stefanie sits down with her absolute favourite, Professor Luke O'Neill. They talk about pandemic as it is now. The promise of vaccines, with some predictions about how things will go from here. How many vaccines…