Salman Rushdie on Truth, Language and the Power of Stories
Salman Rushdie, internationally bestselling author and ‘Best of the Booker’ winner, is a storyteller of the highest order, illuminating truths about our society and culture through his dazzling prose....
1 Juni 202155min
Carlo Rovelli and Philip Pullman on the Science and Stories That Transform Our World
Carlo Rovelli is the internationally bestselling theoretical physicist whose many fans include Benedict Cumberbatch, Antony Gormley, Neil Gaiman and Lily Cole. In May 2021 he came to Intelligence Squa...
28 Maj 202155min
Music in the Age of COVID-19, with David Gray and Rosamund Urwin
In this week's episode acclaimed singer/songwriter David Gray speaks to Rosamund Urwin about how music and the arts have fared throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. David had originally planned to spend 2...
25 Maj 202136min
The New Space Race, with Nicholas Schmidle and Helen Czerski
When Richard Branson founded Virgin Galactic in 2004, the goal was simple: to offer civilian space travel by the end of the decade. Seventeen years, a dozen delays and one catastrophic rocket crash la...
21 Maj 202158min
Common Ground: How to Democratise Nature
Spending a mere two hours a week outside is scientifically proven to lower blood pressure, enhance the immune system and reduce anxiety. Yet, for many communities, nature and the countryside are inacc...
20 Maj 202158min
Choices for a Better Now, with Ece Temelkuran and Matthew Taylor
Many of us felt it before but 2020 was the year it became undeniable: the status quo is not working. Political discontent is widespread – and for good reason. So what can we do now to change course? I...
18 Maj 202152min
The Hidden Language of Trees with Suzanne Simard
Trees have memories. They have wisdom. They cooperate in communities of immense complexity, communicating underground through a huge web of fungi, at the centre of which lie the Mother Trees: the myst...
14 Maj 202155min
Niall Ferguson on the Politics of Catastrophe
Why was the response of the UK and US to the coronavirus pandemic so bungled? How can we be better prepared when the next disaster strikes? These are the questions that historian Niall Ferguson discus...
11 Maj 202159min
