Coronavirus and curbs on democratic freedoms
Gideon Rachman talks to journalist and historian Anne Applebaum about the threat to democracy as authoritarian leaders like Viktor Orban in Hungary exploit public willingness to have freedoms curtaile...
8 Huhti 202017min
New York hit by double shock
Gideon Rachman talks to the FT's Gillian Tett about New Yorkers' battle to contain the coronavirus pandemic and the shock to the US financial system that the virus has carried in its wake. Hosted on A...
1 Huhti 202015min
Life in Europe's coronavirus hotspots
Foreign affairs columnist Gideon Rachman discusses how the coronavirus epidemic has been handled in Italy and Spain with the local FT correspondents, Miles Johnson in Rome and Daniel Dombey in Madrid....
25 Maalis 202017min
Pandemics in the age of hyperconnectivity
In this week's Rachman Review, Gideon Rachman speaks to Ian Goldin of Oxford University - an economist who has long warned of the dangers of pandemics. Professor Goldin explains his theory of "the but...
18 Maalis 202018min
How Saudi Arabia and Iran's rivalry is unravelling the Middle East
Why has the Middle East been in turmoil for decades? Author Kim Ghattas argues that the contest for supremacy between the Saudis and the Iranians is key to understanding the region's troubles. In conv...
11 Maalis 202019min
Human rights under threat from politics
Gideon Rachman talks to Andrew Gilmour, former UN assistant secretary-general for human rights about the increase in human rights violations over the past ten years and the UN ambassadors and countrie...
4 Maalis 202021min
How is Modi's ideology shaping Indian society?
The ideology shaping India today is markedly different from the time of its first post-independence prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. Narendra Modi and his Bharitaya Janata Party, the BJP, are leading...
26 Helmi 202015min
Is there a Democrat that can beat Trump?
With the Democratic primaries underway and Super Tuesday on the horizon this week's episode takes a look at the US presidential election. Is there a Democratic frontrunner? Can we predict how the publ...
19 Helmi 202020min
