Remembering The Cultural Revolution In Modern China
Journalist Tania Branigan has spent years covering China and is Foreign Leader writer for the Guardian. Her new book, Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China’s Cultural Revolution, explor...
27 Feb 202351min
The Sunday Debate: Should the West Send Fighter Jets to Ukraine?
As the war in Ukraine reaches its one year anniversary, there is still no clear end in sight. And while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy anticipates Russia’s spring offensive, he’s been clear i...
26 Feb 202340min
Russia and Ukraine: One Year On
On this episode of the podcast we look back on one year of Russia’s war in Ukraine by revisiting 10 Intelligence Squared conversations over the past 12 months with historians, politicians, journalists...
24 Feb 20231h 2min
How Nigeria Is Making Peace With The Legacy Of Its Civil War
Emmanuel Iduma is a Nigerian author and critic whose new book, I Am Still With You, explores the legacy of the Nigerian Civil War, which began in 1967 and lasted nearly three years. In the book, Iduma...
22 Feb 202348min
How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World
Language is perhaps humanity's most astonishing accomplishment but one that remains poorly understood. On this episode of the podcast we were joined by Nick Chater, Professor of Behavioural Science at...
20 Feb 202338min
The Sunday Debate: Atheism is the New Fundamentalism
Does God exist? In this archive debate from 2009, we invited a panel of expert speakers to discuss whether atheism had replaced religion as the new faith of the secular age. Are atheists as blinkered ...
19 Feb 20231h 4min
American Nightmare: Chinatown's People Smuggling Empire
Investigative journalist Patrick Radden Keefe joins us on the podcast to tell the story of an unlikely criminal mastermind, Sister Ping - a middle-aged, hardworking woman who is highly respected among...
17 Feb 202345min
Titanic: 25th anniversary special with Kate Winslet
It’s been 25 years since the release of James Cameron’s cult classic, Titanic. The epic movie, which early fans will remember came out on VHS in two parts because it was so long, is now being rereleas...
15 Feb 202353min
