Martin Wolf on the World in 2022
2022 looks set to be another seismic year. A new Covid-19 variant threatens to prolong the pandemic. A diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics looks likely to escalate tensions with China. A...
7 Jan 202255min
Poles Apart: Why We Turn Against Each Other
In their recent book, Poles Apart, behavioural scientist Alex Chesterfield, public affairs specialist Laura Osborne and political advisor Ali Goldsworthy look at what factors drive society apart and w...
4 Jan 202256min
Business Weekly: Damian Bradfield, Co-founder of WeTransfer
Damian Bradfield is a tech leader who as co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of WeTransfer steers an essential tool for creatives plus the site's burgeoning culture brand WePresent, too. He joins jo...
3 Jan 202238min
The Sunday Debate: Austen vs Brontë
Jane Austen created the definitive picture of Georgian England. No writer matches Austen’s sensitive ear for the hypocrisy and irony lurking beneath the genteel conversation. That’s the argument of th...
2 Jan 20221h 35min
Gloria Estefan on the Latin American Dream
Gloria Estefan is one of the most successful female singers ever. With more than 120 million records sold worldwide, three Grammy Awards, and a career spanning four decades, she has helped make Latin-...
31 Des 202148min
Satire in an age of absurdity with Armando Iannucci, Jess Phillips and Jan Ravens
Though no laughing matter, the extremes of the Donald Trump presidency made comedians' jobs a little trickier: was the reality more absurd than satire created around it? In 2020 we invited celebrated ...
28 Des 20211h 1min
Business Weekly: Michael Lewis On How Behavioural Economics Changed The World
Michael Lewis is one of the most successful non-fiction authors alive. In a series of titles that have sold 9 million copies worldwide, he has lifted the lid on the biggest business stories of our tim...
27 Des 202158min
The Sunday Debate: Shakespeare vs Milton
Nearly four centuries after his death, no writer has matched William Shakespeare’s influence across drama, theatre and poetry but a few have come close. John Milton, say his fans, works on an altogeth...
26 Des 20211h 57min
