How Britain became Butler to the World, with Oliver Bullough
Bestselling investigative journalist Oliver Bullough discusses his recent book, Butler to the World, which details how Britain became a favoured destination for funnelling the finances of oligarchs an...
28 Maalis 202241min
The Sunday Debate: Iran Is Not Our Enemy
In this debate from the Intelligence Squared archive, we head back to 2020, when we invited journalist and broadcaster Mehdi Hasan, academic and writer Azadeh Moaveni, the Saudi political analyst Salm...
27 Maalis 20221h 3min
Reflections on Black Consciousness: Lewis Gordon and Paul Gilroy in conversation
Professor Lewis Gordon is a leading philosopher and Department Head at the University of Connecticut who believes that intellectual thought matters as much as political activism in the struggle to ach...
26 Maalis 202248min
The Animal Queendom: Rethinking Zoology, with Lucy Cooke
In his theory of evolution, Charles Darwin cast the female animal as passive, coy, monogamous and submissive: in other words, in the shape of a Victorian housewife. Meanwhile the male animal became th...
23 Maalis 202240min
Disorder: Ukraine, Politics and Conflict in the 21st Century, with Helen Thompson
Helen Thompson is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Cambridge, a columnist for The New Statesman, and has been a regular contributor to the Talking Politics podcast. Her new book, Di...
21 Maalis 202253min
The Sunday Debate: Sanctions Won’t Stop Putin
Banks, energy suppliers and oligarchs are just some of the targets that sanctions enforced by the West are looking to put pressure on in order to halt Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine. In this edition ...
20 Maalis 202239min
The Allure of Abandoned Places, with Cal Flyn
Cal Flyn’s Islands of Abandonment was one of the UK’s bestselling books of 2021. It was the Sunday Times Science and Environment book of the year and won her the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year ...
18 Maalis 202256min
No Bullsh*t Leadership, with John Simpson
John Simpson is the BBC’s World Affairs Editor and has dedicated his life to telling stories from the frontline having joined the BBC more than 50 years ago as a reporter. In this special episode, Chr...
16 Maalis 202252min
