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As the clocks change in the UK, this autumn grab an hour to listen to the first episodes of our new After the End podcast series.

The After the End podcast series, launched Friday 24th October 2025, is an amazing collection of different researchers exploring questions such as Does time exist? Can something live forever? What is ‘zombie time’?

Over the course of 14 episodes, project lead Patricia Kingori introduces different researchers to push our thinking around the ideas of time, temporality, and ultimately endings from ethics to physics to natural history, conflicts to global health crises, indigenous and non-linear time to endings on film.

Patricia Kingori, Professor of Global Health Ethics, said ‘After the End explores who decides when something has truly ended and what happens afterward. The project began during the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone, when travel restrictions halted plans to record people’s experiences. Local collaborators suggested instead studying what life was like after the epidemic and what remained once the world’s attention had moved on. This idea sparked broader questions about what “after” means, whose experiences count, and how often researchers actually return to study the aftermath of events.

The After the End podcast series brings together scholars from many fields to examine time, temporality, power, and endings. It looks at how the idea of an “end” is challenged in areas like physics and natural history, explores Indigenous and non-linear concepts of time, and considers situations where people long for an ending that never seems to come, contrasting these with how endings are understood in health and science.’