Inside the 'Intellectual Dark Web'
Commentator Douglas Murray, journalist Bari Weiss and writer Ed Husain join Philip Dodd to explore the 'Intellectual Dark Web'. Their YouTube videos and podcasts receive millions of views and download...
13 Kesä 201844min
Mark Lilla. Owen Hatherley. Gulzaar Barn.
Mark Lilla could be called the conscience of liberal America. He talks to Anne McElvoy about life after identity politics. 2018 New Generation Thinker Gulzaar Barn discusses whether paying people for ...
12 Kesä 201844min
The Man Who Convinced Jimmy Carter to Run for President
Matthew Sweet meets with physician, anthropologist, author and Jimmy Carter's former 'drugs czar', Peter Bourne. Comparing his life to the title character in the film Forrest Gump, the trained psychia...
7 Kesä 201844min
Bernard-Henri Lévy, Edith Hall and Simon Critchley
From people-watching with Aristotle in a London park, to meeting in a luxury hotel at midnight to discuss the fate of a continent, to using a lunchtime five-a-side game as the starting point for a med...
7 Kesä 201844min
The rise of translation and the death of foreign language learning
Arundhati Roy, Meena Kandasamy and Preti Taneja share thoughts about translation. Plus Anne McElvoy will be joined by Professor Nichola McLelland and Vicky Gough of the British Councl to examine why, ...
6 Kesä 201844min
American slavery, the occult and modern politics, jobs for psychopaths.
Iraq vet and novelist Kevin Powers, the careers picked by psychopaths, and American writer Gary Lachman join Matthew Sweet.Kevin Powers' prize winning novel The Yellow Birds explored the experience of...
1 Kesä 201844min
Rowan Williams and Simon Armitage
Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has written about Auden, Dostoevsky and tragedy. At Hay Festival he talks to poet Simon Armitage about the imprint of landscapes in Yorkshire, West Wales...
30 Touko 201844min
Elif Shafak, Juan Gabriel Vásquez and Javier Cercas
The lure of conspiracy theories, the power of fiction to translate history and the public role of writer are debated as Shahidha Bari chairs a discussion recorded with the Colombian writer Juan Gabrie...
29 Touko 201844min
