Podcast Episodes

Europe’s triple shock: Putin, Trump and Xi

The French pioneer of European integration Jean Monnet believed that Europe would be ‘built in crisis’. The war in Ukraine is putting this theory to the test, once again. Gideon discusses with histor…

Published on 5 hours ago

The battle for AI supremacy

Gideon Rachman sits down with the FT's innovation editor John Thornhill and Caiwei Chen, China reporter for the MIT Technology Review, to discuss the race between China and the US to become the 21st-…

Published on 1 week ago

Donald Trump and autocracy in America

Gideon Rachman talks to historian and author Anne Applebaum about the Trump presidency. The US president is increasingly accused of being a would-be dictator, but is it fair to compare Donald Trump t…

Published on 2 weeks ago

US versus China: a test of strength

Gideon talks to former US trade representative Michael Froman about Donald Trump’s visit to Asia this week, culminating in a meeting with Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Apec summit in South Korea…

Published on 3 weeks, 1 day ago

Nuclear weapons and the balance of terror

Gideon talks to the historian and author Serhii Plokhy about how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine changed our calculations about the risk of nuclear war. They discuss the history of the atom bomb from it…

Published on 4 weeks ago

Introducing Untold: Toxic Legacy

Introducing Toxic Legacy, a new season of Untold from the Financial Times. Host Laura Hughes uncovers a lead poisoning epidemic across the UK. You might be living with lead and not know it: the toxin…

Published on 4 weeks, 2 days ago

Taiwan under threat: how strong are its defences?

Gideon talks to Taipei-based policy analyst J Michael Cole about how the Taiwanese are handling the threat of invasion from Beijing. Clips: APT News; RTI English.

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Published on 1 month ago

What chance for Trump’s Gaza peace plan?

Gideon talks to former White House official and Middle East expert Philip Gordon about Donald Trump’s plan for a peaceful end to the Gaza conflict. What are the chances that it can succeed and what a…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Coming soon from Tech Tonic: Mission to Mars

US President Donald Trump has pledged to “plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars”, China could send its first crewed mission to Mars within a decade, and Elon Musk wants people to actually se…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

David Lammy on the fight for democracy

Gideon interviews Britain's deputy prime minister David Lammy at the Labour Party conference at a meeting hosted by the Tony Blair Institute. They discuss how the Starmer government, which has had a …

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago