😂before I came to Cambridge I was lost, so brutally honest

wow this has really helped me to make a decision as to which colleague I want to go to! thank you!

Cobblers. It's awful

wonderful experience!!!

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My experience of Wolfson College and Cambridge University was three years in an especily dreary mausoleum, surrounded by the living dead. Ghastly.

Ok good good

I will try to never stop searching and asking I don't know why you don't want to answer

I want to tell you that I am from Yemen and I have a very, very big dream so that I can study in this university and I will do the impossible since I was young and I am trying now. I graduated from high school and my name is Zahari and got an average of 99.75% But I do not have the money to study in this university, and I want my vote to reach the university I want you to give me hope, please

I want to tell you that I am from Yemen and I have a very, very big dream so that I can study in this university and I will do the impossible since I was young and I am trying now. I graduated from high school and my name is Zahari and got an average of 99.75%and my sister name is Ghada But I do not have the money to study in this university, and I want my vote to reach the university I want you to give me hope, please

The pianist so pofessional

Democracy is obsolete. We have to evolve into an Optocracy

I got accepted at Wolfson last week. Can’t wait to be there next October. ☺️

Did I count (was it 9 or 10?) separate clips - and they were all women? I didn't know there was another women's College at Cambridge.

Does the pandemic with 100,000dead count as a war? Might it be an agent of change?

Very nice!

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David Runciman is brilliant, his books are excellent..I love his podcast and his hauntingly beautiful voice❤️

Very insightful

Btw what you said about the new deal is the simple order of bayseian... yall stupid muh fugs fareel. Killing youre own mother for no reason

Only because the people chose to go in a different direction, doesn’t mean democracy is over.

As always, David’s talks are brilliant and informative.