JUSTIN SCHECK: Blood & Oil, Saudi Arabia and the Crown Prince

For much of my life I knew nothing about Belgium's King Leopold II and his brutal subjugation of millions in the DRC - what was ironically then called the 'Congo Free State'. To be clear, millions we...

29 Heinä 48min

How will future generations look back at the media reporting of Gaza in the years since October 7? In her new book, The Complicit Lens - US Media Coverage of Israel’s Genocide in Gaza - Professor Robi...

22 Heinä 56min

I have been learning about The Troubles for as long as I can remember. Somehow, I had never come across the extraordinary story of Kevin Barry Artt, documented in Dan Lawton's book, 'Above The Ground'...

15 Heinä 37min

We live in a world today where millions of people are serving time for drug offences, while others are making the most the now billion dollar cannabis industry. I had a wonderful chat recently with Ko...

24 Kesä 45min

Over the course of eight years, a man called Stephane Breitwieser stole more than 300 objects and pieces of art. In total, they were worth an estimated $1.4 billion. He is now widely considered the mo...

10 Kesä 46min

Pope Leo is the first American Pope in history, yet remarkably he has not yet had a conversation with President Trump. They did, however, get into a war of words in April, after Pope Leo criticised th...

3 Kesä 44min

Professor Omer Bartov is a leading scholar on the Holocaust, and history of genocide. He is also a man who was born and raised in Israel, served in the IDF during the Yom Kippur war in 1973, and was r...

26 Touko 53min

What is it like to be a female spy in the CIA? It’s a mysterious world we as members of the public have very little access to. However, Christina Hillsberg - herself a former agent - has written a fan...

19 Touko 48min