Caitlin Moran Meets Alex James - Cocaine, Crash Diets and the Return of Blur
One winter’s night, Alex James received an unexpected call. Blur had been invited to play their biggest gig ever: Wembley Stadium. The only trouble was, he and his bandmates hadn’t spoken to – or even...
21 Jan 20251h 8min
Yanis Varoufakis Meets Slavoj Žižek
Erudite and comic, ironic and profound, philosopher Slavoj Žižek has travelled into territory where few of us dare to tread – and aged 75 he shows no signs of becoming less provocative. In this electr...
17 Jan 20251h 33min
Cosmologist Roberto Trotta - How the Stars Shaped Civilisation
Both infinitely larger than ourselves and one of humanity's greatest commonalities, the night sky has shaped millennia of human history. Cosmologist Roberto Trotta joins us to reveal what the mysterie...
10 Jan 20251h 3min
Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk – A Life in Writing
Orhan Pamuk has traveled far and wide, around the world, across the page, and in the landscapes of his mind. Now he joins Erica Wagner to illuminate his craft. From his travels around the world to his...
7 Jan 20251h 1min
Neuroscientist Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston - How and Why We Should Abolish Death
Can scientists now preserve human minds beyond death - and if so, should they? Australian neuroscientist and science communicator Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston joins us to explain the cutting-edge of his ...
17 Dec 202436min
Vanity Fair’s Lili Anolik - Joan Didion v. Eve Babitz
‘Could you write what you write if you weren’t so tiny, Joan?’ -Eve Babitz, in a letter to Joan Didion, 1972 One was the New York name on literary lips. The other, a Los Angeleno fireball with a feroc...
13 Dec 20241h 3min
Lucy Hughes-Hallett - The Brief & Brilliant Life of the Duke of Buckingham
George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham: never had King James I's court seen a man of such exquisite beauty. Capturing the heart of the King, becoming his lover and right-hand man, Villiers thus found him...
10 Dec 20241h 2min
Andrew Roberts - 150 Years of Winston Churchill
Few historical figures in the British political landscape have been as monumental as Winston Churchill. By the time of his death at the age of 90 in 1965, many thought him to be the greatest man in th...
6 Dec 20241h 19min
