Downstream: Everything You’re Told About Green Capitalism is Wrong w/ Brett Christophers
Renewable energy technology is only getting cheaper. And yet it hasn’t increased its share of the energy mix for two decades. So what explains this paradox: cheap green energy with incredibly slow ado...
3 Jun 20241h 33min
Novara FM: The Right Is Getting Real On Climate. Can We? w/ Ajay Singh Chaudhary
The right have ditched climate denial and found something worse. They’re doubling down on the exhaustion of people and planet alike, making us run ever-faster just to stay in place. Can we turn our co...
30 Mai 20241h 4min
Downstream: Is India Really a Democracy? w/ Alpa Shah
The Indian election will be one of the largest the world has ever seen, with almost 1 billion people eligible to vote. It’s often said that India is the world’s biggest democracy. But what if that isn...
27 Mai 20241h 14min
ACFM Trip 43: Cool
What exactly is cool? Well, if it was that easy to describe, it obviously wouldn’t be cool. In this Trip, Keir, Jem and Nadia wonder if cool can ever be politically useful, and what happens when cool ...
26 Mai 20241h 38min
Novara FM: How Trans Misogyny Works w/ Jules Gill-Peterson
The difference between sex and gender is fundamental to how we talk about trans people. But what if it obscures the richness of life outside of gender norms? There is so much more to gender non-confor...
23 Mai 20241h 21min
Novara Live: Rishi Sunak Announces July General Election
In the pouring rain and 20 points behind in the polls, Rishi Sunak has announced that a UK general election will take place on 4 July. Michael Walker and Moya Lothian-McLean report. Plus: Ireland, Sp...
23 Mai 20241h 2min
Downstream: The Truth About Incels w/ William Costello
The involuntary celibate community (aka ‘incels’) are often thought to be rightwing, white supremacist, and prone to violence. But how much of that is true? Ash Sarkar is joined by William Costello – ...
20 Mai 20241h 42min
Novara FM: Living Through the Chinese Miracle w/ Yuan Yang
No country has ever changed so fast as China. From the west, we see only the dazzling headline figures – 15% growth in some years. But it’s on the ground, in the huge shifts in the patterns of daily l...
16 Mai 20241h 8min
