Novara FM: Rojava After Assad: Where Next for the Kurdish Struggle? w/ Elif Sarican
In the wake of Assad’s regime collapse and the call for the Kurdish Worker’s Party to disband, Elif Sarican talks to Richard Hames about how to make sense of this new world, and whether or not the Kur...
13 Mar 20251h 14min
Novara FM: The Absurdity of Rearmament w/ Khem Rogaly
The US is no longer supporting Ukraine, and in response, the UK and Europe are rearming. Germany is taking off its hallowed ‘debt brake’ to allow it, while Keir Starmer is talking tough about the capa...
11 Mar 20251h 17min
Downstream: Why Don’t We Have Any Hope? w/ Jonathan White
When we talk about politics – whether it’s the climate, the economy or constitutional reform – the thing that’s at stake is an idea of ‘the future’. These days, the idea of imminent societal or ecolog...
11 Mar 20251h 29min
ACFM Microdose: Making Art in a World on Fire w/ Amber Massie-Blomfield
What’s the point of the arts when the world is on fire? To follow the pipeline from creativity to activism and back again, Nadia Idle is joined by Amber Massie-Blomfield, former chief of theatre compa...
9 Mar 20251h 10min
Novara FM: Did Pandemics Make the Modern World?
Lockdown was one of the defining experiences of our lives, but it was far from unique in history. Contagion and confinement are inextricably intertwined, from the plantation to the infirmary, the lepe...
6 Mar 20251h
Downstream: Everything We’re Told About the History of the West Is Wrong w/ Josephine Quinn
In 1996 Samuel Huntington published ‘The Clash of Civilizations’. At the time its hypothesis was counter-intuitive. Despite the supremacy of the United States after the Cold War, the ascent of globali...
3 Mar 20251h 51min
Novara FM: The Decades Long Plan that Made Trump Possible w/ David Adler
Read any of the mainstream press at the moment and you’ll hear the same thing: unprecedented things are happening in America. But what if this sudden shift was an illusion? David Adler is co-general c...
27 Feb 202556min
Downstream: Europe’s Political Elite Are Completely Finished w/ Philip Pilkington
For almost six centuries Europe has been at the centre of world affairs. While the days of Empire are long gone, over the last several decades the importance and comparative wealth of Europe has decli...
24 Feb 20251h 36min
