Novara FM: Die Hard w/ James Butler
Die Hard is a perennial of festive TV, but is it really a Christmas movie? James Butler and Eleanor Penny explore what the 1988 action comedy reveals about corporate power, class antagonism, mid-centu...
19 Dec 20241h 11min
Downstream: Is Germany’s Economy Heading for Collapse? w/ Wolfgang Münchau
Just two months before a general election, Germany finds itself in a precarious position. The European project is fragile, the country’s manufacturing innovation has stalled, and Germany’s dependence ...
16 Dec 20241h 48min
Novara FM: We Need a New Wikileaks w/ Stefania Maurizi
In the 2010s, we found out that we were all being watched. A series of leaks, from Wikileaks and others, revealed that our governments were conducting mass surveillance operations on their own populat...
13 Dec 20241h 27min
Downstream: The Journalist Who Spent A Year With The Taliban w/ Ibrahim Nash’at
When the Taliban retook all of Afghanistan in 2021, it came as a shock to much of the West. The day after the last American soldier left, journalist and filmmaker Ibrahim Nash’at flew into Kabul to sp...
9 Dec 202453min
ACFM Trip 48: Political Commitment
Which side are you on? Keir, Nadia and Jem consider the ebb and flow of political commitment with ideas and music from Jodi Dean, Gramsci, John Coltrane and the Raincoats. Is cultural production the ...
8 Dec 20241h 43min
Novara FM: The New Scramble for Africa in the Vacuum of Empire w/ James Pogue
In 1891, the French drew the borders of what became Mali. Like many colonial borders, they were arbitrary, absurd to the many nomads who supposedly lived within them. Now climate change is ravaging th...
5 Dec 20241h 22min
Downstream: Humans Could Become Immortal This Century w/ Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston
Humanity has long pursued an elixir of youth and dreamed of eternal life. For the Abrahamic faiths, physical immortality was lost in the Garden of Eden, with only the soul remaining of permanence. Mor...
2 Dec 20241h 17min
Novara FM: Protect or Punish? The Stakes of Sex Worker Activism w/ Laura Watson
Imagine a person arrested for keeping a brothel. Who are they? An abusive pimp? Such people exist, no doubt, but the law isn’t set up just to catch abusers: it also targets sex workers working togethe...
28 Nov 20241h
