Exploring the Senses, with Guy Leschziner
Professor Guy Leschziner's new book, The Man Who Tasted Words, seeks to shed light on our experiences of the different senses. In the book, Guy meets individuals such as Valeria, for whom music is acc...
15 Feb 202248min
Business Weekly: the Jobs We Don’t Talk About, with Eyal Press
In business, there are some jobs that are talked about more opaquely in public discourse than others. Think Military Drone Operator or Industrial Slaughterhouse Manager, for example. These are roles t...
14 Feb 202247min
The Sunday Debate: Can the Internet be made Safe?
With proposed new legislation in the UK currently making its way through Parliament designed to protect internet users from harmful content, for this week's Intelligence Squared Sunday Debate we ask: ...
13 Feb 202256min
Survival and Hope in New York City, with Andrea Elliott
Andrea Elliott is the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and New York Times investigative reporter who spent nearly a decade following the journey of one family living on the poverty line in Brooklyn. Elli...
11 Feb 202258min
Adapting to the New World of War, with Mark Galeotti
Traditional conflict – fought with guns, bombs, and drones – has become almost too expensive to wage, too unpopular at home, and too difficult to manage. So nations have innovated. Russia wages hybrid...
8 Feb 20221h
Business Weekly: Into the Metaverse, with Herman Narula
Mark Zuckerberg may have gone all-in on the concept of the metaverse recently but he's actually a bit late to the conversation. Herman Narula is CEO and co-founder of Improbable, who since 2012 have c...
7 Feb 202238min
The Sunday Debate: Sports Boycotts Help No One
The 2022 Winter Olympics have just opened in Beijing. Not for the first time in Olympic history, the Games will begin amid controversy over the host nation. China is regularly criticised over its reco...
6 Feb 202238min
Megan Nolan on Acts of Desperation
Megan Nolan’s debut novel, Acts of Desperation, was hailed as a masterpiece by the literary world when it was published in 2021. Searingly honest and darkly amusing, it tells the story of an obsessive...
4 Feb 202254min
