Inside China’s Quest for Social Control
China’s quest for social control is now playing out in ways that should worry us all. In this episode of the podcast, award-winning journalist Josh Chin explains how the Chinese government is weaving ...
1 Maj 202335min
The Sunday Debate: Charles III should be the last British monarch
On this episode of the Sunday Debate we’re going to explore an issue that is timely, yet draws on debates at the heart of British politics and identity for centuries; should King Charles III should be...
30 Apr 202335min
Hadley Freeman and Bari Weiss on Anorexia
Shortly after her fourteenth birthday, Hadley Freeman stopped eating. From the age of fourteen to seventeen, she lived in various psychiatric wards with a diagnosis of anorexia nervosa. And for the ne...
28 Apr 202351min
No Peace: The Story of the Rohingya in Myanmar
The Rohingya people of Myanmar have been persecuted for decades. The worst period of violence flared up in August 2017, when almost 700,000 Rohingya were forced to leave Myanmar after a large-scale mi...
26 Apr 202347min
The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation
On Easter weekend 1993 Nelson Mandela was engaged in slow-moving power-sharing talks with President F.W. de Klerk when a white supremacist shot Mandela’s heir-apparent, Chris Hani, in the hope of igni...
24 Apr 202344min
Debate: Who Will Win the Next General Election?
Is the UK’s 2024 general election a foregone conclusion, with the Labour Party some 20 points ahead in the opinion polls? Can Rishi Sunak turn around the economy in time? Is there enough difference be...
23 Apr 20231h
The Gendered Politics of Climate Change
As Earth Day approaches, we revisit a compelling conversation from 2021 asking which factors are really responsible for the climate emergency and who might be able to prevent it? Dr Anne Karpf is a wr...
21 Apr 202342min
Healthy or Wealthy?: The Commodification of Healthcare
The American healthcare system is one of the most expensive and complex systems in the world, yet it remains plagued by significant inequalities. Despite spending more per capita on healthcare than an...
19 Apr 202340min
