Armando Iannucci, Jess Phillips and Jan Ravens on Satire in an Age of Absurdity
Has satire lost its power in this new world of fake news and ‘alternative facts’ - when our leaders lie so blatantly and frequently, and still manage to get away with it? Or is humour a more important...
28 Helmi 20201h 4min
How Humanity Can Survive the Climate Crisis, with Christiana Figueres and Ritula Shah
In this episode we are joined by Christiana Figueres, the former UN Executive Secretary for Climate Change who was one of the key negotiators behind the Paris Climate Agreement and is the co-author of...
25 Helmi 202040min
To Stop Climate Collapse, We Must End Capitalism
Capitalism is driving us to disaster. Our planet is heading for a terrifying environmental cataclysm – and our economic system is responsible. The defining characteristic of capitalism is perpetual ec...
21 Helmi 20201h 8min
More From Less, with Andrew McAfee and Hugo Lindgren
In this episode we are joined by Andrew McAfee, the co-director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and author of More From Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer...
18 Helmi 202039min
Zombie Economics, with Paul Krugman and Linda Yueh
In this episode we are joined by Paul Krugman, Nobel prize-winning economist and author of Arguing With Zombies: Economics, Politics and the Fight for a Better Future. In a conversation with economist...
14 Helmi 202038min
Social Mobility and Making It in Modern Britain, with Hashi Mohamed and Razia Iqbal
This episode is an exploration of social mobility and inequality in contemporary Britain, featuring Hashi Mohamed, author of People Like Us. Hashi came to the UK aged nine, a refugee from the Somali c...
11 Helmi 202044min
Trailblazers: Letters to my Younger Self
For the second installment of our Trailblazers series, Intelligence Squared has partnered with gal-dem to bring together a collection of outstanding women – and their letters – to our stage. If you co...
7 Helmi 20201h 25min
The Power of the Scrum, with JJ Sutherland and Hugo Lindgren
In this episode, we are joined by JJ Sutherland, the business expert and author of The Scrum Fieldbook. In conversation with the journalist Hugo Lindgren, he explores his ideas for how the world of bu...
4 Helmi 202035min
