Social Mobility and Making It in Modern Britain, with Hashi Mohamed and Razia Iqbal
This episode is an exploration of social mobility and inequality in contemporary Britain, featuring Hashi Mohamed, author of People Like Us. Hashi came to the UK aged nine, a refugee from the Somali c...
11 Feb 202044min
Trailblazers: Letters to my Younger Self
For the second installment of our Trailblazers series, Intelligence Squared has partnered with gal-dem to bring together a collection of outstanding women – and their letters – to our stage. If you co...
7 Feb 20201h 25min
The Power of the Scrum, with JJ Sutherland and Hugo Lindgren
In this episode, we are joined by JJ Sutherland, the business expert and author of The Scrum Fieldbook. In conversation with the journalist Hugo Lindgren, he explores his ideas for how the world of bu...
4 Feb 202035min
Debate: There’s Not Much Great About Britain
In this episode, our panel of top speakers battle it out over whether Brits should be proud or ashamed of their country. Is the phrase 'Great Britain' an oxymoron, or is Britain one of the world's mos...
31 Jan 20201h 4min
The 'Desk Killers' of History, with Dan Gretton and Ros Urwin
In this episode we are joined by Dan Gretton, the author of I You We Them: Journeys Beyond Evil: The Desk Killer in History and Today. In an interview with Ros Urwin of The Sunday Times, he explores t...
28 Jan 20201h 2min
BJ Fogg on Redesigning Habits and Human Behaviour
BJ Fogg is a pioneering research psychologist and founder of the iconic Behavior Design Lab at Stanford which has taught everyone from the founders of Instagram to the leading technology ethicist Tris...
24 Jan 202051min
The Philosophy of Polar Exploration, with Erling Kagge and Razia Iqbal
Erling Kagge, author of Philosophy for Polar Explorers, was the first man in history to reach all of the Earth's poles by foot – the North, the South, and the summit of Everest. In this interview with...
21 Jan 202041min
There Is No Planet B, with Mike Berners-Lee and Matthew Taylor
In this episode we were joined by Mike Berners-Lee, the climate change expert and author of There Is No Planet B: A Handbook For The Make Or Break Years. He was interviewed by Matthew Taylor of the RS...
17 Jan 202047min
