The Sunday Debate: Rembrandt vs Vermeer
We compare the works of two of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age: Rembrandt and Vermeer. Making the case for Rembrandt van Rijn in this debate was historian, author and broadcaster Simon S...
19 Dec 20211h 2min
End of days or a new world order? With Peter Frankopan
Peter Frankopan is Professor of Global History at Oxford University and author of two seminal recent books on the shifting geopolitics of the world: The Silk Roads and its follow-up, The New Silk Road...
17 Dec 202149min
How I Found My Voice: Fatima Bhutto
Samira Ahmed speaks to the author Fatima Bhutto about the power of writing fiction, growing up in one of Pakistan’s most famous political dynasties and why she blames her aunt, former Prime Minister B...
14 Dec 202148min
Business Weekly: How To Reconstruct The Economy After Covid
Former governor of the Bank of England Lord King, global economist Dr Dambisa Moyo and businessman Ian Livingstone join Senior Editor at the Economist Anne McElvoy to map out a road to economic recove...
13 Dec 20211h
The Sunday Debate: It's time to bring Russia in from the cold: Rapprochement is in the West's best interests
This week, we’re going back to 2017, with our debate "It's time to bring Russia in from the cold: Rapprochement is in the West's best interests". For this major event, Intelligence Squared put togethe...
12 Dec 20211h
Keeping the faith in the Middle East with Janine di Giovanni
Journalist and author Janine di Giovanni's over the past 30 years has seen her report from the frontlines of some of the most complex and turbulent stories of our times, including the siege of Sarajev...
10 Dec 202144min
The Genetic Lottery: DNA demystified with Kathryn Paige Harden
The subject of genetic inheritance provokes passionate debate but behavioural geneticist Kathryn Paige Harden believes both sides are getting it wrong. It’s possible, she argues, to reclaim the scienc...
7 Dec 202157min
Business Weekly: Scaling up success
Andrew Chen is a specialist in growing tech businesses and for his new book, The Cold Start Problem, he has spoken to the founders of companies such as LinkedIn, Zoom, Uber, Dropbox, Tinder and Airbnb...
6 Dec 202143min
