The Story of Wartime Kyiv, with Illia Ponomarenko
Ukrainian journalist Illia Ponomarenko is a co-founder of The Kyiv Independent and former defence and security reporter for the Kyiv Post. He's been one of the most important voices reporting from the...
23 Heinä 20241h 1min
Gut Feelings: A History of Our Most Mysterious Organ, with Elsa Richardson
Cultural historian Elsa Richardson discusses her book, Rumbles: A Curious History of the Gut. It looks at our relationship over the centuries with a very intimate part of the body but one for which ma...
22 Heinä 202443min
How Inequality in Healthcare Makes Society Sick, with Layal Liverpool and Chris van Tulleken, Part Two
The is the second instalment of a two-part discussion. We’re living longer than ever before but we are also spending more years in poor health and some communities become more sick than others. In Jun...
20 Heinä 202444min
How Inequality in Healthcare Makes Society Sick, with Layal Liverpool and Chris van Tulleken, Part One
The is the first instalment of a two-part discussion. We’re living longer than ever before but we are also spending more years in poor health and some communities become more sick than others. In June...
19 Heinä 202444min
Surprise Gift: How Inherited Generational Traits Underpin Our Societies, with Harvey Whitehouse
Renowned social anthropologist Harvey Whitehouse is Director of the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Oxford and has crisscrossed the globe, living in remote pa...
17 Heinä 202450min
Why Parenthood is a Numbers Game, with Emily Oster
Emily Oster is an economist whose analytical eye is often focused on how to make better sense of the data behind raising children. As professor of economics at Brown University her analysis of the fac...
15 Heinä 202443min
Archive – Can We Fix Capitalism? Yanis Varoufakis vs Gillian Tett
This is a dip back into the extensive Intelligence Squared archive from October, 2021. Should capitalism be reformed or replaced? Former Greek Finance Minister and economist Yanis Varoufakis and Gilli...
14 Heinä 20241h 3min
The Invisible Science of Gas, with Mark Miodownik
Mark Miodownik is the materials scientist and engineer whose new book is It’s a Gas: The Magnificent and Elusive Elements that Expand Our World. The book is an exploration of that most ethereal of mat...
12 Heinä 202440min
