What Did Twenty Years of Western Intervention in Afghanistan Achieve? With Jon Lee Anderson
For more than 40 years, world-renowned foreign correspondent Jon Lee Anderson has been reporting on wars, crises and revolutions, from Latin America to the Middle East and Africa. Throughout his car...
23 Sep 202537min
Who are the Trailblazing Women Hidden From Our History? With Women's Prize Founder Kate Mosse
Did you know that Mary Shelley was a teenager when she started writing Frankenstein in 1814? Or that England’s most prolific goal scorer - man or woman - was superstar striker Lily Parr, who scored a ...
21 Sep 202553min
Is the Data on Climate Change More Optimistic than We Thought? With Hannah Ritchie
What if the real story of climate change is far more hopeful than we’ve been led to believe? With so much doomsday reporting and general misinformation on climate change, it can be hard to know what’...
20 Sep 202542min
Ian McEwan on Speculative Fiction, Lost Poems and What We Can Know
Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of nineteen novels and two short story collections. His novels include Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach, and he is the rec...
18 Sep 202542min
Sotheby’s Talks | Custodians of Taste: Pauline Karpidas and the Women who Shape the Art World
On today’s episode, an episode from our friends at Sotheby's exploring the remarkable collecting journey of Pauline Karpidas, one of the most influential art patrons of the past fifty years. Ahead of ...
16 Sep 202553min
Arundhati Roy on Storytelling, Memory and The Human Condition (Part Two)
‘It is vanishingly rare for a writer to both confront the ugliness of humanity and still search for its beauty. Roy is that rare writer.’ – Naomi Klein Arundhati Roy is one of today’s most esteemed p...
14 Sep 202534min
Arundhati Roy on Storytelling, Memory and The Human Condition (Part One)
‘It is vanishingly rare for a writer to both confront the ugliness of humanity and still search for its beauty. Roy is that rare writer.’ – Naomi Klein Arundhati Roy is one of today’s most esteemed p...
13 Sep 202533min
Nick Clegg on Meta, AI and the Battle for Big Tech (Part Two)
Nick Clegg has had a seat at the heart of power for nearly two decades. As leader of the Liberal Democrats he served as deputy Prime Minister from 2010 to 2015 in the coalition government with David C...
11 Sep 202536min
