How To Win a Trade War, with Soumaya Keynes and Chad Bown
In this episode, journalist Hannah Lucinda Smith speaks with economists Soumaya Keynes and Chad Bown about our new era of global trade wars. Drawing on their new book How to Win a Trade War, Keynes a...
28 Touko 36min
How To Kill A Language, with Sophia Smith Galer (Part One)
What do we lose when a language dies? Roughly 7,000 languages are spoken around the world today. Over half of them are expected to vanish in the next century – along with the wealth of information th...
24 Touko 34min
The Secret Life of Our Organs and How They Keep us Healthy, with Dr Giulia Enders
How can changing the way we breathe lower stress and blood pressure? Why is touch so important for premature babies and ICU patients? And what can our organs teach us about staying healthy? Dr Giulia...
23 Touko 41min
Chasing Aliens, with Jon Ronson and Daniel Lavelle (Part Two)
Are we really alone in the universe? The question of whether there is extraterrestrial life is one of our oldest questions. And few nations on Earth are more captivated by the prospect of life on Mar...
21 Touko 35min
Chasing Aliens, with Jon Ronson and Daniel Lavelle (Part One)
Are we really alone in the universe? The question of whether there is extraterrestrial life is one of our oldest questions. And few nations on Earth are more captivated by the prospect of life on M...
19 Touko 36min
Has Far-Right Politics Entered The Mainstream in the UK? With Daniel Trilling
Has far-right thinking entered mainstream politics in the UK? In 2025, Britain saw its largest-ever far-right rally, following a summer of flag-waving protests. Then, in May 2026, local elections re...
17 Touko 47min
Love, Loss and Mourning Paul Auster, with Siri Hustvedt
What does it mean to mourn a shared life? In this episode, essayist and novelist Siri Hustvedt speaks to book critic Mythili Rao about Ghost Stories. Her most personal work yet, it is a searing and i...
16 Touko 39min
