Lost in Translation – What happens when a language dies?
How do languages die? Who’s behind the death of languages from Ghana’s Dagbani to regional Italian dialects? And does it matter if they decay? Almost half of our 7,000 languages are expected to go ext...
11 Aug 30min
Bin it to win it – Start Your Week with Gavin Esler
It’s Farage vs. Binface at this week’s Clacton by-election, what has this campaign taught us? Plus, Burnham is on tour and Trump finds himself in a new conundrum. Gavin Elser joins Jacob Jarvis to dis...
10 Aug 27min
Badenoch’s neo-Nazi fiasco, the Farage-Lowe Love-In… and Welsh Star Wars – Weekly Wrap-Up with Jonn Elledge
Looking back on the big stories of the past week… Kemi Badenoch faces fury after defending a former neo-Nazi’s decision to stand as a Tory councillor. What was she thinking? Burnham amends his early p...
7 Aug 28min
Downturn Abbey – Why wealth-obsessed US TV is finally discovering ordinary lives
Sick of watching Shiv Roy or Tanya McQuoid strut around luxury properties? You’re not alone. For years, depictions of extreme wealth have dominated the airwaves with shows like Succession and The Whit...
6 Aug 31min
The wars growing in Europe’s secret battlegrounds
Europe is secretly at war – and it has been for a long time. Across the continent, 34 disputed territories remain with places where the conflicts of empire still linger and rival nations continue to c...
5 Aug 33min
The MAGA money tree – How Don Jr. is cashing in on Trump 2.0
Donald Trump is making more money than any sitting US president in history – and his eldest son isn’t about to let Dad have all the fun… Through his investment firm 1789 Capital, Donald Trump Jr is ca...
4 Aug 24min
The devolution will be televised – Start Your Week with Alex von Tunzelmann
Andy Burnham is pushing his new devolution agenda and suggested it could mean we need a written constitution. How might that work? Plus, there’s a new mayor in Manchester, what did the by-election sho...
3 Aug 30min
Burnham bamboozles the right and Trump goes rogue – Weekly Wrap-Up with Rafael Behr
Looking back on the big stories of the past week… The Burnham bounce is driving the right completely bonkers. How long can his momentum last – and can anyone knock the PM off his pedestal? Plus: Donal...
31 Juli 31min
