Can Democracy Survive the Age of AI? With Jill Lepore
We live in the age of data. Over the past century, rapidly evolving technologies have transformed almost every aspect of our society, in ways that can seem both troubling and unstoppable. Political ca...
28 Elo 41min
What John Berger Saw That We Still Don’t, with Tom Overton
John Berger transformed the way generations thought about art, politics and the act of looking. Best known for Ways of Seeing, his work ranged across migration, capitalism, war and mortality, always a...
25 Elo 42min
Is Tech Making Our Kids Less Capable? With Dr Jared Cooney Horvath
Schools were promised that laptops, educational apps and artificial intelligence would make learning more personalised, engaging and effective. Cognitive neuroscientist and former teacher Dr Jared Coo...
23 Elo 33min
Is Ukraine’s Culture Worth Fighting For? With Charlotte Higgins
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has placed not only lives and cities under attack, but also the country’s language, history and culture. Museums have been looted, cultural sites destroyed and ...
22 Elo 37min
How George Michael Changed Music Forever, with Sathnam Sanghera (Part Two)
George Michael wrote Careless Whisper, one of the biggest pop songs of our age, in an hour in his childhood bedroom. Alongside his childhood best friend Andrew Ridgeley he founded Wham!, a revolutiona...
20 Elo 42min
How George Michael Changed Music Forever, with Sathnam Sanghera (Part One)
George Michael wrote Careless Whisper, one of the biggest pop songs of our age, in an hour in his childhood bedroom. Alongside his childhood best friend Andrew Ridgeley he founded Wham!, a revolutiona...
18 Elo 37min
Spielberg, Coppola and Lucas: The Remaking of Modern Cinema, With Paul Fischer
By the early 1980s Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas were the richest, best-known filmmakers in the world, with an empire of their own. Coppola had directed The Godfather, then t...
16 Elo 51min
