Head of TED Chris Anderson and Jon Ronson on Translating Optimism Into Action, Part One
As head of TED, Chris Anderson has had a ringside view of the world’s most influential thinkers in action. TED’s annual conference in Vancouver sees thousands of delegates flock from across the world ...
23 Feb 202442min
Archive: Killer in the Kremlin, with John Sweeney
The recent death of Russian anti-corruption activist, opposition leader and political prisoner Alexei Navalny while serving a decades-long sentence in a remote Arctic penal colony shocked the world la...
21 Feb 202431min
Six Centuries of Feminist Writing, with Hannah Dawson and Merve Emre
How has feminist thought evolved throughout the ages? Beginning in the fifteenth century with Christine de Pizan, who imagined a City of Ladies that would serve as a refuge from the harassment of men,...
19 Feb 202458min
Material World: How Six Crucial Substances Shape the Global Economy
There are six crucial substances in human history, according to writer and broadcaster Ed Conway: sand, iron, salt, oil, copper and lithium. They took us from the Dark Ages to the present day. They bu...
18 Feb 20241h 2min
Energised: How Do We Create A Green Jobs Revolution?
Solar panel installers, architects, environmental scientists, recycling coordinators, wind turbine engineers, geologists, project managers, electric vehicle manufacturers – these are just a small subs...
16 Feb 20241h 6min
Novelist Helen Oyeyemi on Why the City of Prague has Main Character Energy
The latest book from critically acclaimed writer Helen Oyeyemi, Parasol Against the Axe, is a novel set among the city of Prague’s streets. It’s often said that a city can feel like a character in a b...
14 Feb 202427min
Why the Political World's a Stage
Richard Sennett is a sociologist and the Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics, whose work has given particular focus to areas such as how we co-exist in urban spaces and...
12 Feb 202447min
Is Democracy Future-proof? with Jonathan White and David Runciman
2024 is set to be the biggest election year in history but what happens to politics when it’s always about the next election? We lose our sense of perspective, says Professor of Politics at London Sch...
11 Feb 202452min
