Behind The Lines with Arthur Snell

Behind the Lines with Arthur Snell is a geopolitics podcast. Every week we give the listener access to the best informed people to help you understand this turbulent world and get a feel for the things that will matter in the future.

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Politics
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Ukraine, its occupied territories and its future
with Jade McGlynn
44 min
52
A Moment of Change? France recognises the State...
With Michael Stephens
51 min
53
Is the Islamic regime in Iran fatally wounded?
with Charlie Gammell
45 min
54
Russia's Use of Chemical Weapons and a Victory ...
With Steven Derix
31 min
55
EPISODE 100: Creeping authoritarianism in the U...
with Jonathan Terra
65 min
56
Israel - Iran - ceasefire? Or more chaos
Joint episode with Disorder Podcast
31 min
57
War in the Middle East and its wider impacts
with Chris Coghlan MP
38 min
58
Sten Rynning on the Past and the Future of NATO
Shared episode with the Disorder Podcast
49 min
59
Mike Martin MP on the Strategic Defence Review
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35 min
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Iran and the US: is a new nuclear deal in sight?
with Charlie Gammell
38 min
61
Starvation in Gaza, is the world finally respon...
with Michael Stephens
54 min
62
Murder in Helmand
Did British Special Forces Commit War Crimes in Afghanistan?
46 min
63
Yemen, the UK, the US and the transatlantic all...
How the Houthis might have helped Starmer get his trade agreement
64 min
64
Ukraine and America: the great betrayal
with Romeo Koktriatski
58 min
65
The Geopolitics of Climate: how Tuvalu is think...
The tragedy of rising oceans
45 min
66
RUSI/Disorder Partnership: Ransomware in our Ag...
With RUSI's Jamie MacColl
48 min
67
The Crisis in The Atlantic Alliance ep 2
The impact on Central and Eastern Europe, with Jonathan Terra
51 min
68
The Crisis in the Atlantic Alliance
with Jonathan Terra
60 min
69
Blood, toil, tears, and sweat: the plight of mi...
with James Lynch
55 min
70
Myanmar: the Unfolding Civil War
with Ronan Lee
63 min
71
What does the collapsing global order mean for ...
with Samir Puri
43 min
72
How the extremism of our age is being fed by di...
with Amil Khan
49 min
73
The latest from Kyiv: what does John Sweeney ma...
The man in the lucky orange hat
36 min
74
THIS ONE'S A REAL EMERGENCY EPISODE: THE END OF...
With Mike Martin MP
45 min
75
UKRAINE, John Sweeney and a betrayal foretold
Revisiting an episode from November 2023
60 min