Niall Ferguson on the Politics of Catastrophe
Why was the response of the UK and US to the coronavirus pandemic so bungled? How can we be better prepared when the next disaster strikes? These are the questions that historian Niall Ferguson discus...
11 Mai 202159min
Joe Biden: Moderate or Radical? With Evan Osnos and Mark Mardell
As we pass Joe Biden's first one hundred days in office as President of the United States, we're joined by The New Yorker's Evan Osnos author of the biography Joe Biden: American Dreamer to discuss wh...
7 Mai 202159min
Mona Eltahawy on the Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
Be angry, ambitious, profane, violent, attention-seeking, lustful, and powerful. These are the “seven necessary sins” that Egyptian writer and activist Mona Eltahawy says women and girls are not suppo...
4 Mai 202158min
Getting into the Doughnut, with Kate Raworth and Matthew Taylor
In this week's episode Kate Raworth, Oxford University economist discusses what she calls Doughnut Economics, an idea she came up with to help humanity deal with the challenges we face today: financia...
30 Apr 20211h
The Social Dilemma, with Tristan Harris and Helen Lewis
In this week's episode Tristan Harris, star of Netflix hit documentary 'The Social Dilemma' speak to Helen Lewis about the the enormous power technology has in steering human attention and behaviour. ...
27 Apr 202141min
Difficult Women, with Helen Lewis and Rosamund Urwin
Helen Lewis argues that feminism's success is down to complicated, contradictory, imperfect women, who fought each other as well as fighting for equal rights. Too many of these pioneers have been whit...
23 Apr 202138min
Debate: The West Must Engage not Confront China
This week's episode features a debate from Intelligence Squared Germany in partnership with the ECFR. Kerry Brown goes up against Anastasia Lin on the question of how the West should engage a more ass...
22 Apr 202140min
Jews Don't Count, with David Baddiel and Armando Iannucci
In this week's episode comedian and writer David Baddiel discusses his new book, Jews Don’t Count. He argues that the progressive movement which often prides itself on principles of equality, justice ...
20 Apr 20211h 3min
