Robin Ince Meets Richard Dawkins
Have you ever dreamt you could fly? Or imagined what it would be like to glide and swoop through the sky like a bird? Do you let your mind soar to unknown, magical spaces? In conversation with comedia...
29 Apr 20221h 4min
Ed Miliband - How to Fix Our World
For the past four years, Ed Miliband has been discovering and interviewing brilliant people all around the world who are successfully tackling the biggest problems we face, transforming communities an...
26 Apr 202258min
Dispatches from Afghanistan
Bringing together leading Afghan politician and women’s rights advocate Fawzia Koofi, who was a member of the recent delegation negotiating peace with the Taliban; Sunday Times chief foreign correspon...
22 Apr 202255min
Matthew Green - A Journey Into the Shadowlands
From Old Winchelsea to Skara Brae, Matthew Green transports us to Britain's shadowlands - the once thriving towns and cities that are now lost to time and memory. Drowned by storms. Buried by sand. R...
19 Apr 202236min
Julia Samuel - Every Family Has a Story
Our family relationships fundamentally influence our health and happiness -- but we think too narrowly about the impact of our families on our lives. In this episode of the podcast, bestselling psycho...
11 Apr 202257min
Philip Oltermann - The Stasi Poetry Circle
In 1982, East Germany's fearsome secret police - convinced that writers were embedding subversive messages in their work - decided to train their own writers, weaponising poetry in the struggle agains...
8 Apr 202231min
Simon Sebag Montefiore and Luke Harding - The History of the Ukraine-Russia Conflict
The concept of a shared, single heritage and culture is central to Vladimir Putin’s justification for the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But what is the true story of the two nations, and how can it ill...
5 Apr 202241min
Max Porter - Why Art Should Challenge Us
Max Porter broke new ground with his highly-original debut Grief is a Thing With Feathers, and firmly established himself as a major literary talent with his second novel Lanny. The cult author joined...
1 Apr 202243min
