The Specialist | The Rediscovery of Rubens’ The Massacre of the Innocents, with George Gordon
This is an episode of The Specialist, produced by Intelligence Squared in partnership with Sotheby's. In The Specialist, explore the significance and journey of an extraordinary work through the eyes ...
22 Jul 202514min
How Can Football Shirts Explain Money, Power and Politics?
In today’s episode, journalist and author Joey D'Urso joins us to discuss the themes of his new book More Than A Shirt: How Football Shirts Explain Global Politics, Money and Power. D'Urso travelled a...
21 Jul 202536min
How Geography Explains Our World, with Tim Marshall
Tim Marshall is one of the world’s most successful authors on foreign affairs. He’s the writer who put the ‘geo’ into geopolitics with his multi-million selling books Prisoners of Geography and The Po...
19 Jul 202529min
How will Trump’s tariff war impact the global economy? With Philip Coggan
What happens when the world’s biggest economy turns its back on global trade? In today's episode, host Adam McCauley is joined by renowned financial journalist and economist Philip Coggan to examine ...
17 Jul 202547min
The Search for a Jewish Homeland in Texas, with Rachel Cockerell and James McAuley
On June 7th 1907, a ship packed with Russian Jews sets sail not to Jerusalem or New York, as many on board have dreamt, but to Texas. The man who persuades the passengers to go is David Jochelmann, Ra...
15 Jul 202528min
What can Charlottesville teach us about America’s national story? With Deborah Baker
In August 2017, over a thousand neo-Nazis, fascists, Klan members, and neo-Confederates descended on a small southern city to protest the pending removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee. What happened i...
13 Jul 202537min
Why does nobody understand quantum physics? With Frank Verstraete and Céline Broeckaert
Why does the universe behave in ways that defy logic - and can anyone truly understand it? In this episode, we’re joined by physicist Frank Verstraete and writer Céline Broeckaert, the husband-and-wi...
12 Jul 202547min
What if Globalisation Fails? with Ben Chu
What happens if globalisation fails? Can nations truly stand alone in an interconnected world? Is the new race for national self-sufficiency a path to real security, or a dangerous illusion? In this ...
10 Jul 202538min
