The Economy in 2023: Where Do We Go From Here?
Russia's war on Ukraine, Liz Truss's mini budget and soaring inflation have all hammered the UK in recent months. But as the country begins a new year with a new Prime Minister – how much drama and un...
9 Jan 202356min
The Sunday Debate: How much wealth should parents pass down?
Some of the richest people in the world have decided against bequeathing their fortunes to their children; from Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, to Daniel Craig and Michael Sheen. The proponents of this...
8 Jan 202347min
The Powerful Women Who Made History
Powerful women have too often been overlooked by history. Of course we know about Boudica, Cleopatra, Elizabeth I and Catherine the Great. But there are many others whose stories are just as dramatic ...
6 Jan 202351min
The Bewildering Magic of the Narwhal, the Greenland Shark, and the Golden Mole
Are narwhals the closest creature to unicorns that we can ever know? How does the Greenland shark fill its 500 years on our planet? Is the iridescent golden mole a mole or an elephant? On this episode...
4 Jan 202357min
Cultural Favourites from the Archives – Words that Changed The World, with Jeremy Irons and Carey Mulligan
To celebrate some of the most influential and impactful speeches ever made, we invited Barack Obama’s director of speechwriting, Cody Keenan and Tony Blair’s former speechwriter, Philip Collins, to di...
2 Jan 20231h 40min
Cultural Favourites from the Archives – Letters That Changed The World
Letters grant us a glimpse into fascinating lives, whether through the eyes of a genius, a monster or of an ordinary person. For this archive event, we matched up award-winning historian Simon Sebag M...
1 Jan 20231h 28min
Cultural Favourites from the Archives – The Power of Poetry, with Helena Bonham Carter and Jason Isaacs
Continuing our series of cultural highlights from the Intelligence Squared archive, we revisit the event The Power of Poetry, which saw actors Helena Bonham Carter and Jason Isaacs bringing the words ...
30 Des 20221h 30min
Cultural Favourites from the Archives – James Rhodes and Armando Iannucci on the Transformative Power of Music
Intelligence Squared has been producing agenda-setting events for over a decade. During the holiday season we're looking back over that extensive archive to pick out some of our favourite and most enl...
28 Des 20221h 5min
