
The Sunday Debate: Britain Should Not Have Fought in the First World War
For this week's Sunday Debate, we're dipping back into the archive to 2014, when we gathered a panel of expert historians to debate whether Britain was right to fight in the First World War, a tragedy...
31 Jul 20221h 34min

How to Lead a Sustainable Business – Emma Dabiri on Reinventing Stories Around Race
For this edition of Intelligence Squared, we join Alannah Weston, Chairman of Selfridges Group, for her podcast How to Lead a Sustainable Business, in which she speaks to thought leaders who are reinv...
29 Jul 202232min

Putin’s Long War: From Chechnya to Ukraine, with John Sweeney
In the midst of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, award-winning journalist John Sweeney reported from Kiev, drawing on his decades of experience covering stories ranging from the Moscow apartment bombings...
27 Jul 202255min

Why Religion Keeps Evolving, with Robin Dunbar
Robin Dunbar has been hailed as one of the most insightful and creative evolutionary thinkers of our time, famed for his work on human networks and communities (he came up with the Dunbar number, the ...
25 Jul 202259min

The Sunday Debate: Angela Merkel is Destroying Europe
In this archive listen from 2013, we explore the global political impact of a leader whose legacy and influence is still being questioned today: Angela Merkel. As with any leader, a legacy isn't set i...
24 Jul 202254min

The Man Who Escaped Auschwitz to Warn the World, with Jonathan Freedland
During the Second World War, Rudolph Vrba was one of the very few people to escape the horrors of the Auschwitz concentration camp. He did so along with fellow escapee, Alfred Wetzler, in April 1944. ...
22 Jul 20221h

Breaking the Power of Big Tech, with Jamie Susskind
Trolling, conspiracy theories, racist algorithms, cyberwarfare – every day our headlines are ablaze with negative stories about the internet. The problem? The unaccountable power of the big tech compa...
21 Jul 20221h 5min

Next Steps for an Anti-Racist Society, with Ibram X. Kendi
Activist, academic and author Ibram X. Kendi joins us for a discussion on his new book, How to Raise an Antiracist. It follows his Intelligence Squared talk that took place in 2019 outlining how to im...
18 Jul 20221h 10min





















