John and Paul: A Beatles Love Story in Songs (Part One)
In 1957 John Lennon and Paul McCartney were two ordinary teenagers who met in suburban Liverpool and decided to play rock and roll together. Twenty-three years later that friendship came to a tragic e...
1 Apr 202533min
Revisiting Wages for Housework, with Emily Callaci
Unpaid domestic labor has long been the invisible backbone of economies worldwide - but what if it were compensated? In this episode, historian Emily Callaci takes us inside the Wages for Housework mo...
30 Mar 202539min
Six Kings and the Making of the English State, with Caroline Burt and Richard Partington
Between 1199 and 1399, English politics was high drama. These two centuries witnessed savage political blood-letting - including civil war, deposition, the murder of kings and the ruthless execution o...
30 Mar 202550min
LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman on What Could Go Right with Our AI Future (Part Two)
Reid Hoffman is one of the world’s most influential and successful entrepreneurs. The co-founder of LinkedIn, Manas AI, Inflection AI and part of the original team at PayPal, he has built companies th...
28 Mar 202534min
LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman on What Could Go Right with Our AI Future (Part One)
Reid Hoffman is one of the world’s most influential and successful entrepreneurs. The co-founder of LinkedIn, Manas AI, Inflection AI and part of the original team at PayPal, he has built companies th...
26 Mar 202533min
The Rise of Spotify, with Liz Pelly
Music has become increasingly playlisted, personalized, and autoplayed. But how did we get here, and what does it mean for artists, listeners, and the music industry as a whole? In today’s episode, j...
24 Mar 202542min
Kavita Puri and Sathnam Sanghera on War, Empire and the Untold Story of the Bengal Famine (Part Two)
The Bengal Famine is the forgotten story of the Second World War. Between 1943 and 1944, at least three million Indians, all of whom were British subjects, died from starvation or diseases linked to m...
23 Mar 202541min
Kavita Puri and Sathnam Sanghera on War, Empire and the Untold Story of the Bengal Famine (Part One)
The Bengal Famine is the forgotten story of the Second World War. Between 1943 and 1944, at least three million Indians, all of whom were British subjects, died from starvation or diseases linked to m...
21 Mar 202537min
