The Betrayal of Female Bodies in Professional Sport
International Women's Week on Intelligence Squared. Equality is no longer enough, women need equity - that's the message of former US 5000m champion, Lauren Fleshman who joins us on this episode of th...
8 Mar 202338min
Difficult Feminism: History’s Complicated Changemakers
International Women’s Week on Intelligence Squared. Change is never easy, it requires putting up a fight, going against the status quo, and if you’re a woman - this may require you to be difficult. In...
7 Mar 20231h 2min
Me Too: The Women Who Helped Ignite a Movement
International Women’s Week on Intelligence Squared. On this episode we hear from some of the women who helped sparked the 2017 MeToo movement. Jodi Kantor and Meghan Twohey are the Pulitzer Prize-winn...
6 Mar 20231h 32min
Old World vs New World: The Great Wine Debate
For the Sunday Debate this week, a dip back into the archive to 2019 when we partnered with Waitrose to invite three of the UK’s top wine experts to settle a rivalry for the ages: the so-called Old Wo...
5 Mar 20231h 3min
Mary Beard on Women and Power in Western Culture
How has Western culture depicted powerful women down the ages? To what extent have they been packaged into a male template? And how much have they been able to control their own image? Featuring class...
3 Mar 20231h 2min
Bernie Sanders on Money and Power
Senator Bernie Sanders is seen by many as the leader of the progressive movement in the United States. On this episode of the podcast, recorded in central London, he spoke to BBC broadcaster Justin We...
1 Mar 202327min
Introducing...Intelligence Squared: Arts & Culture
We have some really exciting news for you, we're launching a brand new podcast – Intelligence Squared Arts & Culture. Join us every week as we delve into the artistic and cultural moments, movements a...
28 Feb 202321min
Remembering The Cultural Revolution In Modern China
Journalist Tania Branigan has spent years covering China and is Foreign Leader writer for the Guardian. Her new book, Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China’s Cultural Revolution, explor...
27 Feb 202351min
