Downstream: Israelis Want Genocide w/ Abby Martin
Abby Martin is an American journalist and activist, host of the interview series The Empire Files, and a co-founder of the citizen journalism website Media Roots. She joins Ash Sarkar to discuss her p...
8 Apr 20241h 1min
Novara FM: What’s Really Causing the Housing Crisis? w/ Nick Bano
Why is it so expensive to rent in the UK? In a divisive new book, barrister Nick Bano places the blame squarely on price-gouging landlords, rejecting the conventional wisdom that calls for more new ho...
4 Apr 20241h 6min
Downstream IRL: This Ideology Threatens Our Fundamental Freedoms w/ Judith Butler
For a special edition of Downstream IRL, Ash Sarkar is joined by philosopher, author, and one of the world’s most cited academics, Judith Butler. Their new book, ‘Who’s Afraid of Gender’ charts how a ...
1 Apr 202455min
Downstream: We Are Getting Foreign Policy Very Wrong w/ Steve Coll
With hindsight, the wars waged by the US and Britain in Afghanistan and Iraq look like terrible failures, both strategically and politically: the Taliban are back in power in Afghanistan, and living s...
25 Mars 20241h 5min
Novara FM: Critical Theorists Hate This One Weird Trick w/ Anna Kornbluh
We’re living in a world of hurry and shortcuts, of intimacy on tap and just-in-time production. Immediacy, according to Anna Kornbluh, is the link between flow-states and Fleabag, between food deliver...
21 Mars 20241h 11min
Downstream: On Gaza, Grammar Schools and British War Crimes w/ Peter Hitchens
Peter Hitchens is an author and journalist whose contrarian takes on drug policy, education and foreign policy have found him occupying a singular place in the British media – with his brand of conser...
18 Mars 20241h 34min
ACFM Trip 41: Trust Your Gut
From fecal transplants to the yoghurt-industrial complex, we’ve never been more absorbed in the workings of our gut. But can we trust it? Nadia, Jem and Keir investigate the mysterious connections bet...
17 Mars 20241h 20min
Novara FM: The Untold Histories of Black Gay Britain w/ Jason Okundaye
Researching Black British history “often feels like a rescue effort, a race against time,” writes Jason Okundaye. In his first book, he narrates the mingled histories of seven astonishing lives in the...
13 Mars 20241h 12min
