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
Joe Biden: Moderate or Radical? With Evan Osnos and Mark Mardell
As we pass Joe Biden's first one hundred days in office as President of the United States, we're joined by The New Yorker's Evan Osnos author of the biography Joe Biden: American Dreamer to discuss wh...
7 Maj 202159min
Mona Eltahawy on the Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
Be angry, ambitious, profane, violent, attention-seeking, lustful, and powerful. These are the “seven necessary sins” that Egyptian writer and activist Mona Eltahawy says women and girls are not suppo...
4 Maj 202158min
Getting into the Doughnut, with Kate Raworth and Matthew Taylor
In this week's episode Kate Raworth, Oxford University economist discusses what she calls Doughnut Economics, an idea she came up with to help humanity deal with the challenges we face today: financia...
30 Apr 20211h
The Social Dilemma, with Tristan Harris and Helen Lewis
In this week's episode Tristan Harris, star of Netflix hit documentary 'The Social Dilemma' speak to Helen Lewis about the the enormous power technology has in steering human attention and behaviour. ...
27 Apr 202141min
Difficult Women, with Helen Lewis and Rosamund Urwin
Helen Lewis argues that feminism's success is down to complicated, contradictory, imperfect women, who fought each other as well as fighting for equal rights. Too many of these pioneers have been whit...
23 Apr 202138min
