Jess Phillips on the Challenges of a New Era for British Politics
Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley since 2015, Jess Phillips has never shied away from controversy nor has she been afraid to veer away from Labour Party lines to uphold her political principles. For th...
10 Aug 20241h 24min
What Keeps Tyrants in Power? with Marcel Dirsus
Marcel Dirsus is a political scientist and the author of How Tyrants Fall: And How Nations Survive. As Non-Resident Fellow at the Institute for Security Policy at Kiel University, Dirsus mainly works ...
9 Aug 202433min
Power and Greed on the High Seas, with Olive Heffernan
The award-winning science journalist Olive Heffernan’s work has been featured in National Geographic, New Scientist, The Guardian, BBC Wildlife and more. Her new book is The High Seas: Ambition, Power...
7 Aug 202458min
Imagining London's Future through Fiction, with Joelle Taylor
A truly multifaceted talent, Joelle Taylor is a poet, playwight, actor and most recently a novelist, who has written four collections of poetry along with also being a Poetry Fellow of the University ...
5 Aug 202441min
The Women Who Shaped the Ancient World, with Daisy Dunn
The award-winning classicist and cultural critic Daisy Dunn is the author of seven books including her latest, The Missing Thread: A New History of the Ancient World through the Women Who Shaped It. T...
3 Aug 202442min
Is Telling a Life Story as Easy as ABC? with Sheila Heti
Sheila Heti is a writer from Toronto who has published 11 books since the early 2000s. Those include Motherhood, Pure Colour, and How Should A Person Be? That latter title was a breakout work mixing m...
1 Aug 202434min
A Story of Fine Art, Friendship and Fraud, with Orlando Whitfield
Orlando Whitfield started his career as a dealer in the feverish global art market but left it disillusioned and burnt-out a decade later. Today he works as a writer and his recent book is All That Gl...
28 Jul 202430min
Former FBI Director James Comey on Trump, his new Crime Thriller and The Politics of Justice
James Comey is the former FBI Director turned crime novelist who has spent a career fighting organised crime and hostile threats to American democracy. In 2016 as head of the FBI, he reopened a previo...
28 Jul 20241h 17min
