Megan Nolan on Acts of Desperation
Megan Nolan’s debut novel, Acts of Desperation, was hailed as a masterpiece by the literary world when it was published in 2021. Searingly honest and darkly amusing, it tells the story of an obsessive...
4 Feb 202254min
How We Can Win: Kimberly Jones and Alvin Hall in conversation
The murder of George Floyd at the hands of police officers in Minneapolis in 2020 provoked a moment of cultural reckoning in the US and a wave of outrage across the globe. Amid those scenes, author an...
1 Feb 20221h 1min
Business Weekly: How to design a company, with Dr Naomi Stanford
Dr. Naomi Stanford is an expert in creating models to make organisations work better. Having begun in her career creating organisation design for large multinational companies such as British Airways ...
31 Jan 202231min
The Sunday Debate: The West Should Work With the Taliban
Since the hardline militant group recaptured the Afghan capital Kabul in August 2021, the question of how Western powers should deal with the Taliban has become one with no easy answers. The Taliban i...
30 Jan 202252min
Myth and Legend Reimagined: Charlotte Higgins and Dr Amy Jeffs in conversation
Art historian, printmaker and writer Dr Amy Jeffs is joined in conversation by author and journalist Charlotte Higgins to discuss how ancient myths and legends are constantly retold and reimagined by ...
28 Jan 202248min
Standoff in Ukraine: Fiona Hill on the politics that led to a crisis
Foreign policy and national security expert Fiona Hill is a go-to voice in Washington for understanding the longstanding tensions between the US and Russia. Her latest book, There Is Nothing For You H...
25 Jan 20221h 1min
Business Weekly: Connecting the Dots, with Dr Christian Busch
Dr Christian Busch has spent his career studying chance, serendipity, and how to maximise opportunity. He is director of the Center for Global Affairs' Global Economy Program at New York University an...
24 Jan 202249min
The Sunday Debate: Neville Chamberlain Did The Right Thing
As the new film, Munich – The Edge of War, hits Netflix screens starring Jeremy Irons as British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain negotiating on the brink of World War Two in 1938, we revisit an arc...
23 Jan 20221h 1min
