How to fix a country, with James Plunkett
James Plunkett's new book, End State: 9 Ways Society is Broken, draws on his years working in both public policy and at the top tiers of government. A former advisor to UK prime minister Gordon Brown,...
2 Nov 202152min
Business Weekly: Scary Smart with Mo Gawdat
Mo Gawdat was Chief Business Officer of Google X, the experimental development arm of the internet behemoth. He's since written books on how to find happiness and his new one, Scary Smart, warns of th...
1 Nov 202159min
The Sunday Debate: Is COP26 a turning point for the planet?
This debate, recorded on Thursday 28th October 2021, was part of Energised, a debate series from Intelligence Squared in partnership with Iberdrola, a leading company in the field of renewable energy....
30 Okt 202145min
COP26: Everything you need to know
With the devastating effects of the climate emergency becoming more urgent by the day, the COP26 summit in Glasgow now represents a pivotal moment in global cooperation on the issue. Can anything mean...
29 Okt 202135min
Mary Beard on Images of Power from the Ancient to the Modern World
What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of figures we deplore? In October 2021 Mary Beard, Britain’s best known classicist, came to ...
26 Okt 20211h
Business Weekly: Richard Branson on a Life of Entrepreneurship
In this week's Business Weekly, Samira Ahmed speaks to business mogul Sir Richard Branson about becoming a serial entrepreneur developing the Virgin brand, signing some of the biggest names in music a...
25 Okt 202144min
The Sunday Debate: Should the West pay Reparations for Slavery?
Should there be a broad programme of reparations – not just financial compensation, but acknowledgement of the crimes committed and the lasting damage caused by slavery? Or would this just worsen soci...
24 Okt 20211h 6min
The Untold Story of African Europeans, with Olivette Otele
The history of Africans in Europe may seem recent – a result of migration in the 20th and 21st centuries – but in her new book, African Europeans, historian Olivette Otele tells a very different story...
22 Okt 202153min
