We've Never Had It So Good
It's 2014 and what does Britain have to look forward to? Osborne’s welfare cuts. An umpteenth series of Celebrity Big Brother. Adult children still living at home and cadging off the Bank of Mum and D...
31 Jan 20141h 38min
An Evening With Slavoj Zizek
Radical philosopher, polymath, film star, cult icon, and author of over 30 books, Slavoj Žižek is one of the most controversial and leading contemporary public intellectuals, simultaneously acclaimed ...
24 Jan 20141h 32min
Let Them Come: We Have Nothing To Fear From High Levels Of Immigration
Does mass immigration boost our economy and cultural richness or undermine them? Hear Times columnist David Aaronovitch, former Mayor of London Ken Livingstone and the economist Susie Symes go head to...
17 Jan 20141h 50min
Steven Pinker on The Better Angels of Our Nature
We launch our first podcast of the year today – our 2011 talk by the world renowned American cognitive scientist Steven Pinker. In it he argues that, contrary to popular belief, we are living in the l...
10 Jan 20141h 30min
Verdi vs Wagner: The 200th Anniversary Debate with Stephen Fry
Think opera and you think Verdi. Verdi created some of the most beloved operas of all time, from the romantic tragedy of La traviata and Rigoletto to the Shakespearian dramas of Macbeth, Otello and Fa...
24 Des 20131h 52min
Eric Schmidt On The New Digital Age
Eric Schmidt is one of the leading visionaries of our time. He has taken Google from a small start-up to one of the world’s most influential companies. In this conversation with Bryan Appleyard from M...
21 Des 20131h 30min
An Anatomy Of Truth: Conversations on Truth-Telling
Not everyone tells the truth. ‘Read my lips: no new taxes.’ ‘This isn’t going to hurt.’ ‘I see no ships, my lord.’ ‘Of course I love you.’ When can we know what to believe? Four out of five of us don’...
20 Des 20131h 38min
Putin Has Been Good For Russia
There’s not a lot to like about Vladimir Putin: he’s autocratic, vain and runs a corrupt government. And he doesn’t give a fig for human rights. The repression in Chechnya, the jailing of the (now par...
20 Des 20131h 38min
