Salman Rushdie on Truth, Language and the Power of Stories

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. Best known as a novelist, he is also a compelling essayist and last month he came to Intelligence Squared to talk about the ideas in his latest collection of nonfiction, Languages of Truth. In conversation with cultural critic Shahidha Bari, Rushdie shared with us his personal encounters, on the page and in person, with storytellers from Shakespeare and Cervantes to Philip Roth and Toni Morrison. We heard his thoughts on Christopher Hitchens and the American Right, Osama Bin Laden and Pakistan, and on the role of artists, intellectuals and ordinary citizens in fighting for freedom of speech and thought. To buy the book click here: https://www.primrosehillbooks.com/product/languages-of-truth-essays-2003-2020-salman-rushdie/ Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Demis Hassabis and Sebastian Mallaby on The Quest for Artificial General Intelligence (Part Two)

Demis Hassabis and Sebastian Mallaby on The Quest for Artificial General Intelligence (Part Two)

Demis Hassabis – CEO and co-founder of Google DeepMind – is one of the world’s most visionary technologists. A child chess prodigy from North London, Hassabis was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemi...

21 Apr 33min

Demis Hassabis and Sebastian Mallaby on The Quest for Artificial General Intelligence (Part One)

Demis Hassabis and Sebastian Mallaby on The Quest for Artificial General Intelligence (Part One)

Demis Hassabis – CEO and co-founder of Google DeepMind – is one of the world’s most visionary technologists. A child chess prodigy from North London, Hassabis was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemi...

19 Apr 37min

How Does Chemistry Shape our World? With Professor Dame Ijeoma Uchegbu

How Does Chemistry Shape our World? With Professor Dame Ijeoma Uchegbu

Chemistry is everywhere. From cosmetics and the clothes we wear to life-saving medicines and kitchen experiments, chemical processes are all around us, defining our interactions with the world we live...

18 Apr 43min

Why Did Elite Cambridge Graduates Become Soviet Spies? Revisiting the Cambridge Five, with Antonia Senior

Why Did Elite Cambridge Graduates Become Soviet Spies? Revisiting the Cambridge Five, with Antonia Senior

The Cambridge Five - Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Kim Philby, John Cairncross and Keeper of the Queen's Pictures Anthony Blunt - made up one of the most notorious spy rings of the 20th century. Besott...

16 Apr 40min

How Will the Climate Crisis Reshape Global Politics? With Former Diplomat and Author, Arthur Snell

How Will the Climate Crisis Reshape Global Politics? With Former Diplomat and Author, Arthur Snell

Our changing climate is accelerating conflict and migration, with the potential to drive political instability from the Sahel to Saudi Arabia to Siberia. From the water-stressed mountains of the Arabi...

14 Apr 49min

Is There a Crisis of Overdiagnosis in Modern Medicine? With Dr Suzanne O’Sullivan

Is There a Crisis of Overdiagnosis in Modern Medicine? With Dr Suzanne O’Sullivan

More people are being labelled with medical conditions than ever before. Diagnoses of autism, ADHD, allergies, and long COVID have skyrocketed - but are we actually getting less healthy?  In this epi...

12 Apr 48min

How Has Translation Transformed Shakespeare? With Daniel Hahn

How Has Translation Transformed Shakespeare? With Daniel Hahn

What does it mean to translate some of the most recognisable and revered works in the English language? When the wordplay, poetry, and syntax of Shakespeare are all changed, is it still truly Shakespe...

11 Apr 54min

Should You Be Talking To AI? with Jamie Bartlett

Should You Be Talking To AI? with Jamie Bartlett

Hundreds of millions of people now talk to AI, such as ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini every day. They organise their finances and holidays, ask advice, seek therapy and find love – via machines. Almost ove...

9 Apr 44min

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