Putin’s Long War: From Chechnya to Ukraine, with John Sweeney
In the midst of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, award-winning journalist John Sweeney reported from Kiev, drawing on his decades of experience covering stories ranging from the Moscow apartment bombings...
27 Juli 202255min
Why Religion Keeps Evolving, with Robin Dunbar
Robin Dunbar has been hailed as one of the most insightful and creative evolutionary thinkers of our time, famed for his work on human networks and communities (he came up with the Dunbar number, the ...
25 Juli 202259min
The Sunday Debate: Angela Merkel is Destroying Europe
In this archive listen from 2013, we explore the global political impact of a leader whose legacy and influence is still being questioned today: Angela Merkel. As with any leader, a legacy isn't set i...
24 Juli 202254min
The Man Who Escaped Auschwitz to Warn the World, with Jonathan Freedland
During the Second World War, Rudolph Vrba was one of the very few people to escape the horrors of the Auschwitz concentration camp. He did so along with fellow escapee, Alfred Wetzler, in April 1944. ...
22 Juli 20221h
Breaking the Power of Big Tech, with Jamie Susskind
Trolling, conspiracy theories, racist algorithms, cyberwarfare – every day our headlines are ablaze with negative stories about the internet. The problem? The unaccountable power of the big tech compa...
21 Juli 20221h 5min
Next Steps for an Anti-Racist Society, with Ibram X. Kendi
Activist, academic and author Ibram X. Kendi joins us for a discussion on his new book, How to Raise an Antiracist. It follows his Intelligence Squared talk that took place in 2019 outlining how to im...
18 Juli 20221h 10min
The Sunday Debate: The Battle for the Countryside, with George Monbiot, Rory Stewart, Minette Batters and Mark Cocker
This event was recorded on the 10th of July 2018 in London SPEAKERS FOR THE MOTION: Mark Cocker - Author and naturalist and George Monbiot - Guardian columnist, environmental campaigner and author of ...
17 Juli 20221h 4min
The Magical World of Animal Senses, with Ed Yong
What do bees sense in flowers? What do songbirds hear in each others’ tunes? And what’s that smell sending your dog running up the street? These questions and many more are the basis of science commun...
15 Juli 202257min
