The Trillion Dollar Battle For Your Attention, with Peter Schmidt and D. Graham Burnett
Our attention is under attack. A handful of powerful tech companies are extracting and monetising our focus, reshaping our inner lives and threatening the foundations of democracy. Many proposed solut...
9 Feb 49min
Sir Sajid Javid – Lessons From the Front Bench (Part Two)
For more than a decade, Sir Sajid Javid was at the heart of power in Britain. First elected in 2010, he rapidly rose to his first cabinet position as Culture Secretary. The son of a bus driver and com...
8 Feb 36min
Sir Sajid Javid – Lessons From the Front Bench (Part One)
For more than a decade, Sir Sajid Javid was at the heart of power in Britain. First elected in 2010, he rapidly rose to his first cabinet position as Culture Secretary. The son of a bus driver and com...
6 Feb 41min
Can Water Shape Our Future?
In today’s episode, the second in our series in partnership with WaterAid, journalist and author Coco Khan speaks to Helen Rumford, WaterAid’s Lead Policy Analyst for Climate Policy and Campaigns and ...
4 Feb 29min
Julian Barnes in conversation with Ian McEwan (Part Two)
Julian Barnes and Ian McEwan are widely celebrated as two of the finest writers of their generation. Along with Salman Rushdie and Kazuo Ishiguro, they were included on Granta’s prescient Best Young B...
3 Feb 43min
Julian Barnes in conversation with Ian McEwan (Part One)
Julian Barnes and Ian McEwan are widely celebrated as two of the finest writers of their generation. Along with Salman Rushdie and Kazuo Ishiguro, they were included on Granta’s prescient Best Young B...
2 Feb 39min
Why Can’t We Stop Money Laundering? With Oliver Bullough
In an increasingly digital world, hardly anyone relies on cash. $100 bills are essentially absent from global commerce. So how come the US Federal Reserve printed 752 million and 867.2 million of them...
1 Feb 42min
Is the Arctic the World’s Next War Zone? With Kenneth R. Rosen
Why Is Everyone Suddenly Fighting Over the Arctic? In this episode, Adam McCauley speaks to journalist and author Kenneth R. Rosen about the Arctic’s shifting geopolitical role in the new world order...
30 Jan 51min
