How the Middle East was made — with Simon Sebag Montefiore
How did we get the modern Middle East? Who shaped it and does the term even make sense in our current era? Seth Thévoz speaks to Simon Sebag Montefiore author of The Cauldron: the Making of the Modern...
20 Aug 26min
The Age of Surveillance is rewiring our minds
We live in a surveillance world, but what is it doing to us? To give one small example, hackers figured out Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson’s movements by tracking his bodyguard’s exercise data...
19 Aug 32min
The Nerd Reich – How tech billionaires went fascist
Silicon Valley’s overlords have completely lost their minds. Gil Durán, Kamala Harris’ former communications director and now a journalist, says Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and the rest of the tech oligarc...
18 Aug 31min
The Death of Jason Arday – Start Your Week with Ros Taylor
Setting out the stories of the week ahead… The shocking death of Jason Arday reignites questions about the press’s relentless pursuit of the story, Cambridge University and Simon & Schuster’s failure ...
17 Aug 27min
Trump off his trolley, Farage back in trouble – Weekly Wrap-Up with Rafael Behr
Looking back on the big stories of the past week… Will all of Nigel Farage’s problems come back to haunt him now his Clacton distraction is over? Andy Burnham tries to solve the unsolveable problem of...
14 Aug 32min
AI is finally going rogue. Here’s what it means
First an OpenAI artificial intelligence model hacked a tech start-up called Hugging Face. Then one of Anthropic’s creations escaped its testing environment and carried out cyberattacks on its own. Now...
13 Aug 30min
Al-Qaeda isn’t dead. It could be more dangerous than ever.
America’s hunt for al-Qaeda defined the 2000s in an epochal War on Terror that consumed $8 trillion. But the story didn’t end when Osama bin Laden and his successor Ayman al-Zawahiri were killed. The ...
12 Aug 28min
Lost in Translation – What happens when a language dies?
How do languages die? Who’s behind the death of languages from Ghana’s Dagbani to regional Italian dialects? And does it matter if they decay? Almost half of our 7,000 languages are expected to go ext...
11 Aug 30min
