{"podcast":{"title":"The Realisation Festival Podcast","slug":"the-realisation-festival-podcast-7072015","podcast_index_feed_id":7072015,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/2418827.rss","website_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2418827","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/qt5ev7y7dwazsu1wnnzroik8aury?.jpg","author":"Mark Vernon","episode_count":26,"summary":"Welcome to the podcast of the Realisation Festival, which takes place every year at St Giles House, Wimborne, Dorset (http://realisationfestival.com). The podcast is hosted by Mark Vernon, in conversation with individuals who have attended the festival. The aim is to develop a sense of the various ways in which realising is done, as people offer reflections on ideas, experiences, books and activities.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-realisation-festival-podcast-7072015"},"episode":{"title":"The intelligence of molecules. A conversation with Pauline Rudd","slug":"the-intelligence-of-molecules-a-conversation-with-pauline-rudd","published_at":"2026-03-02T16:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-realisation-festival-podcast-7072015/the-intelligence-of-molecules-a-conversation-with-pauline-rudd","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-realisation-festival-podcast-7072015","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2418827/episodes/18775698-the-intelligence-of-molecules-a-conversation-with-pauline-rudd.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2418827/episodes/18775698-the-intelligence-of-molecules-a-conversation-with-pauline-rudd.mp3","summary":"A new paradigm is beginning to emerge in biology, though for some biologists, the new is, in fact, the old. The reductive treatment of living organisms, as if the gene were all, is giving way to the realisation that intelligence, even agency, operates at all levels of biological systems, from the proteins up. There is no-one better to talk to about this development and what it implies than Professor Pauline Rudd, a regular at the Realisation Festival and leading glycobiologist, recognised mos...","meta_description":"A new paradigm is beginning to emerge in biology, though for some biologists, the new is, in fact, the old. The reductive treatment of living organisms, a…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1157,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-realisation-festival-podcast-7072015/episodes/the-intelligence-of-molecules-a-conversation-with-pauline-rudd/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-realisation-festival-podcast-7072015/the-intelligence-of-molecules-a-conversation-with-pauline-rudd.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}