Ghost Ships and Geopolitics, with Ian Urbina and Ros Urwin
Ian Urbina, investigative reporter of The New York Times for 17 years returns to the podcast to discuss a new investigation, which he believes to uncover the largest known case of illegal fishing perp...
18 Aug 202035min
Partition Voices, with Kavita Puri and Rajini Vaidyanathan
The division of the Indian subcontinent in 1947 into India and Pakistan saw millions uprooted and resulted in unspeakable violence. It happened far away, but it would shape modern Britain. In this wee...
14 Aug 202049min
Can business deliver social good after Covid-19? With Warren Valdmanis and Michelle Meagher
As Covid-19 continues to suspend normal life across much of the globe, many commentators have argued the present moment offers a unique opening to re-imagine our societies and economic system. On this...
11 Aug 202037min
Deepfakes and the Infocalypse with Nina Schick and Carl Miller
In this week's podcast Nina Schick speaks to Carl Miller about the rise of Deepfakes and what she believes is an impending 'Infocalypse'. Advances in AI mean that by scanning images of a person (for e...
7 Aug 202046min
Niall Ferguson On What History Can Teach Us About Covid-19
There are few big thinkers better placed to explain the implications of the Covid-19 pandemic than historian Niall Ferguson. In addition to his profound understanding of past crises, since early March...
4 Aug 202059min
An Artificial Revolution, with Ivana Bartoletti and Yassmin Abdel-Magied
In this week's episode world-leading privacy expert Ivana Bartoletti speaks about the reality behind the AI revolution, from the low-paid workers who train algorithms to recognise cancerous polyps, to...
31 Jul 202045min
Slavoj Žižek and Shahidha Bari on Hegel in a Wired Brain
In celebration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of G.W.F. Hegel, Slavoj Žižek speaks to Shahidha Bari about the philosophical giant that changed our way of thinking about posthumanism. Together t...
28 Jul 202043min
Tony Blair and Andrew Adonis on Ernest Bevin, Britain’s Forgotten Political Giant
In this rare public appearance together, chaired by the BBC’s Rajini Vaidyanathan, the former Labour prime minister Tony Blair and cabinet minister Andrew Adonis discussed how the man known as ‘the wo...
24 Jul 202048min
