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How Covid-19 Will Shape the Next Decade, with P...
This week we were joined by Philip Rowley Media Futurist & Futures Director at Omnicom to explore how Covid-19 will shape the next decade of culture, politics and entertainment. From remote working to video gaming Phil provides a ...
40 min
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Debate: Cancel Culture is Threatening Our Freedoms
JK Rowling, Scarlett Johansson, Kanye West. All have been ‘cancelled’ – denounced on social media for doing or saying something considered wrong or offensive, often on matters to do with race or gender. In this week's episode Ayaan Hirsi Ali and J...
63 min
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China's Good War, with Rana Mitter and Gideon R...
For most of its history, the People’s Republic of China limited public discussion of the war against Japan. It was an experience of victimization—and one that saw Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek fighting for the same goals. But now, as China grows more ...
48 min
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A Secret History of Stars, with Jo Marchant and...
Jo Marchant and Helen Czerski take us on a journey through humanity’s relationship with the heavens. The stars have shaped who we are - our religious beliefs, power structures, scientific advances and even our biology. But over the last few ce...
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The Spies Fighting Communism During the Cold Wa...
At the end of World War II, the United States dominated the world militarily, economically, and in moral standing – seen as the victor over tyranny and a champion of freedom. But it was clear – to some – that the Soviet Union was already executing a pl...
46 min
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Journeys to Freedom After the Holocaust, with R...
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared------One summer’s night in 1946, over 1,000 European Jews waited silently on an Italian beach to board a secret ship. They had survived Auschwitz, hidden and fought in forest...
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Clive, Capitalism and The East India Company, w...
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared------We still talk about the British conquering India, but that phrase disguises a more sinister reality. For it was not the British government that began seizing chunks of I...
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Taming Covid and Preventing the Next Pandemic, ...
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared------In this week's episode we brought together two of Britain’s most esteemed experts on global pandemics to discuss what we got wrong about the virus and how we can le...
54 min
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Power, Control and Domestic Abuse, with Jess Hi...
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared------Every week in England and Wales, two women are killed by a current or former partner. And still we ask the question: 'Why didn't she leave?' Ac...
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BONUS EPISODE: Shinzo Abe's Life and Legacy
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared------As Japan's longest serving premier, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, steps down due to health concerns, we examine his life and legacy in a special bonus episode. We we...
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Rutger Bregman on Human Kindness in a Frightene...
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared------Human beings, we’re taught, are by nature selfish and governed by self-interest. From Hobbes’ theory about the state of nature to Richard Dawkins’ ‘selfish gene’, the ...
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Dark Money and Dirty Politics, with Peter Geogh...
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared------Democracy is in crisis, and unaccountable and untraceable flows of money are helping to destroy it. According to Peter Geoghegan, politicians lie gleefully, making wil...
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The Hidden Power of Caste, with Isabel Wilkerso...
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared.--------Race, class, gender. These are the categories that are commonly thought to define our lives. But Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson argues that ultimate...
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Ghost Ships and Geopolitics, with Ian Urbina an...
Ian Urbina, investigative reporter of The New York Times for 17 years returns to the podcast to discuss a new investigation, which he believes to uncover the largest known case of illegal fishing perpetrated by a single industrial fleet operat...
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Partition Voices, with Kavita Puri and Rajini V...
The division of the Indian subcontinent in 1947 into India and Pakistan saw millions uprooted and resulted in unspeakable violence. It happened far away, but it would shape modern Britain. In this week's episode Kavita Puri speaks to Rajini Vaidya...
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Can business deliver social good after Covid-19...
As Covid-19 continues to suspend normal life across much of the globe, many commentators have argued the present moment offers a unique opening to re-imagine our societies and economic system. On this week's episode we delved into this topic with ...
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Deepfakes and the Infocalypse with Nina Schick ...
In this week's podcast Nina Schick speaks to Carl Miller about the rise of Deepfakes and what she believes is an impending 'Infocalypse'. Advances in AI mean that by scanning images of a person (for example using Facebook), a powerful ma...
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Niall Ferguson On What History Can Teach Us Abo...
There are few big thinkers better placed to explain the implications of the Covid-19 pandemic than historian Niall Ferguson. In addition to his profound understanding of past crises, since early March he has been meticulously collatin...
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An Artificial Revolution, with Ivana Bartoletti...
In this week's episode world-leading privacy expert Ivana Bartoletti speaks about the reality behind the AI revolution, from the low-paid workers who train algorithms to recognise cancerous polyps, to the rise of data violence and the sym...
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Slavoj Žižek and Shahidha Bari on Hegel in a Wi...
In celebration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of G.W.F. Hegel, Slavoj Žižek speaks to Shahidha Bari about the philosophical giant that changed our way of thinking about posthumanism. Together they investigate what he might have...
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Tony Blair and Andrew Adonis on Ernest Bevin, B...
In this rare public appearance together, chaired by the BBC’s Rajini Vaidyanathan, the former Labour prime minister Tony Blair and cabinet minister Andrew Adonis discussed how the man known as ‘the working-class John Bull’ grew to become one of this co...
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Science Fictions, with Stuart Ritchie and Tom W...
Medicine, education, health, parenting – wherever it really matters, we look to science for guidance and answers. In this episode Stuart Ritchie discusses his new book 'Science Fictions' and reveals the disturbing flaws that undermine our und...
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Sex Robots & Vegan Meat, with Jenny Kleeman and...
Award-winning journalist and documentary-maker Jenny Kleeman takes us on a journey into the world of the people who are changing what it means to be human. Focusing on the central pillars of the human experience–birth, food, ...
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Angrynomics: Why The World is So Angry, with Ma...
Why are measures of stress and anxiety on the rise, when economists and politicians tell us we have never had it so good? While statistics tell us that the vast majority of people are getting steadily richer the world most of us experience day-in and d...
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Outraged: Why Everyone is Shouting and No One i...
In this week's episode BBC presenter and DJ Ashley 'Dotty' Charles joins us to discuss her new book 'Outrage' and the insatiable appetite for anger in today's world. In conversation with Ash Sarkar, she explores how outrag...
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