Daily: FRANKENSTEIN IN DIGITAL – The coming AI revolution
Are we ready to live alongside artificial minds? And why do we still harbour a Terminator-style fear of vengeful machines? Oxford University Professor of Computer Science Michael Wooldridge, author of...
26 Mar 202130min
Daily: BORN IN CRISIS How constitutions are created
Constitutions are the rulebooks of government, but how does each country get its own peculiar arrangements? Linda Colley, author of The Gun, The Ship, And The Pen: War, Constitutions And The Making Of...
25 Mar 202121min
Daily: The City trader who fought ISIS
What makes someone give up a lucrative job in the City of London to risk their life fighting ISIS in Syria – with no prior military training? In one of our most astonishing interviews, Macer Gifford d...
24 Mar 202125min
CSI: Westminster
Which flavour of police overreach do you like least: COVID regulations if you’re on the right, or the Police Bill if you’re centre-left? Special guest Emily Benn joins us to disentangle the worsening ...
23 Mar 202158min
PER ARDUA, NO ASTRA – Start Your Week with Alex Andreou
The EU:UK vaccine export row: who’s in the right and will a friendly phone call from Boris Johnson sort it all out like it always does? On the anniversary of Lockdown 1, will the pandemic regulations ...
22 Mar 202120min
Extra: ISOLATION INSPIRATION with author Francis Spufford
A bonus weekend edition… Finding inspiration in the midst of pandemic can be difficult, but how hard is it to write a book about a city you can’t visit because of lockdown? And how has the Church fare...
21 Mar 202121min
Daily: Roofless People – How we COULD solve the Housing Crisis
The Grenfell tragedy exposed the worst of a housing crisis which affects some 8 million people and leaves one in seven people in unaffordable or unsuitable homes. How did we get into this mess and how...
19 Mar 202126min
Daily: THE RUSSIAN SPY AND I — Up close with Britain’s worst traitor
For British intelligence, Soviet mole George Blake was possibly the most damaging traitor of the whole Cold War. Towards the end of Blake’s life the FT’s Simon Kuper met the ageing defector for “the m...
18 Mar 202128min
