Gut Feelings: A History of Our Most Mysterious Organ, with Elsa Richardson
Cultural historian Elsa Richardson discusses her book, Rumbles: A Curious History of the Gut. It looks at our relationship over the centuries with a very intimate part of the body but one for which ma...
22 Jul 202443min
How Inequality in Healthcare Makes Society Sick, with Layal Liverpool and Chris van Tulleken, Part Two
The is the second instalment of a two-part discussion. We’re living longer than ever before but we are also spending more years in poor health and some communities become more sick than others. In Jun...
20 Jul 202444min
How Inequality in Healthcare Makes Society Sick, with Layal Liverpool and Chris van Tulleken, Part One
The is the first instalment of a two-part discussion. We’re living longer than ever before but we are also spending more years in poor health and some communities become more sick than others. In June...
19 Jul 202444min
Surprise Gift: How Inherited Generational Traits Underpin Our Societies, with Harvey Whitehouse
Renowned social anthropologist Harvey Whitehouse is Director of the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Oxford and has crisscrossed the globe, living in remote pa...
17 Jul 202450min
Why Parenthood is a Numbers Game, with Emily Oster
Emily Oster is an economist whose analytical eye is often focused on how to make better sense of the data behind raising children. As professor of economics at Brown University her analysis of the fac...
15 Jul 202443min
Archive – Can We Fix Capitalism? Yanis Varoufakis vs Gillian Tett
This is a dip back into the extensive Intelligence Squared archive from October, 2021. Should capitalism be reformed or replaced? Former Greek Finance Minister and economist Yanis Varoufakis and Gilli...
14 Jul 20241h 3min
The Invisible Science of Gas, with Mark Miodownik
Mark Miodownik is the materials scientist and engineer whose new book is It’s a Gas: The Magnificent and Elusive Elements that Expand Our World. The book is an exploration of that most ethereal of mat...
12 Jul 202440min
Why Turkey is a Country of Endless Curiosity, with Sami Kent
The history of Turkey is often told in well-worn tropes but journalist, audio producer and now author Sami Kent is going for something a little more heartfelt in his new book, The Endless Country: A P...
10 Jul 202440min
