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Satire in an age of absurdity with Armando Iann...
58 min
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Business Weekly: Michael Lewis On How Behaviour...
55 min
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The Sunday Debate: Shakespeare vs Milton
114 min
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How I Found My Voice: Yotam Ottolenghi
37 min
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History vs Herstory
41 min
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Business Weekly: Steering a tech giant with Sat...
54 min
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The Sunday Debate: Rembrandt vs Vermeer
59 min
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End of days or a new world order? With Peter Fr...
46 min
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How I Found My Voice: Fatima Bhutto
45 min
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Business Weekly: How To Reconstruct The Economy...
57 min
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The Sunday Debate: It's time to bring Russia in...
57 min
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Keeping the faith in the Middle East with Janin...
41 min
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The Genetic Lottery: DNA demystified with Kathr...
54 min
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Business Weekly: Scaling up success
40 min
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The Sunday Debate: Assisted Dying Should Be Leg...
57 min
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Wole Soyinka on writing, politics and the power...
55 min
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Nationalism and the Battle for India’s Soul, wi...
55 min
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Business Weekly: The Race for a Vaccine
35 min
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COP26: Success or Failure for the World?
57 min
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Huma Abedin on Hillary Clinton, Anthony Weiner ...
53 min
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The Sweet Spot: why pain can be a pleasure
We go to movies that make us cry, scream or gag we poke at sores, eat spicy foods and run marathons. Some of us even seek out discomfort and humiliation for sexual gratification. Most of these activities are painful yet many of us find pleasure within ...
52 min
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Business Weekly: How To Lead A Sustainable Busi...
Today's episode comes from the How To Lead a Sustainable Business podcast, brought to you by Selfridges Group and Intelligence Squared. In the podcast, Alannah Weston, Chairman of Selfridges Group, speaks to inspiring leaders at the forefront of s...
20 min
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Will electric vehicles make our roads green and...
Transport emissions account for almost a third of global carbon dioxide emissions – and while other sectors such as the energy industry have reduced their emissions over the past three decades, transport emissions are growing. It is the EU’s second mos...
56 min
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Constitutional Rights and Wrongs, with Linda Co...
Linda Colley is the Shelby MC Davis 1958 professor of history at Princeton University and one of the most acclaimed historians of her generation. Her latest book is The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen, which tells the stories of h...
48 min
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Black British Lives Matter, with Marcus Ryder MBE
Black British Lives Matter is a new anthology of writing and conversations collecting the experiences of thought leaders in the UK including novelist Kit de Waal, architect Sir David Adjaye, politician Dawn Butler and many mo...
46 min