Frankie Boyle Meets George Monbiot - The Fight Against Neoliberalism
Why are are the rich getting richer? Why is prosperity moving further and further out of reach for most people? An iconoclast unafraid to speak truth to power, George Monbiot joins comedian Frankie Bo...
4 Feb 20251h 37min
Neuroscientist Adam Zeman - The New Science of Imagination
We live in the here and now much less than we tend to think. Imagination isn’t the exception in our daily lives; it’s our default setting. Far from being a faculty used only in creative endeavours, th...
31 Jan 20251h 2min
Novelist and Activist Cory Doctorow - Fear and Loathing in Silicon Valley
Whether anticipating the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in his short story Radicalised, helping the world to wake up to the grift of the social media giants through his concept o...
28 Jan 20251h
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
