Podcast Episodes

ACFM Trip 54: The Future

What if we stopped treating the future like a speculative asset and started trying to actually build and prepare? The ACFM gang look to the horizon in this Trip episode.

Did young people always worry…

Published on 6 hours ago

Downstream: The Political Possibilities of the Ancient World w/ Josephine Quinn

What were the ancient alternatives to democracy? Did people in the Bronze Age forget how to write – or deliberately stop? And what’s the use in studying ancient languages?

In a Downstream IRL recorde…

Published on 6 days, 6 hours ago

Downstream: Are We Living Through the End of an Empire? w/ Lea Ypi

What can the collapse of the Ottoman Empire teach us about the danger of the current discourse around migration?

‘Re-migration’ is not a new concept conjured up by the far-right, but rather something…

Published on 1 week, 6 days ago

Downstream: Infinite Growth Will Lead to Collapse w/ Jason Hickel

Our politicians don’t agree on much, but one thing most of them agree on is that growth is universally good. Grow the pie, they assure us, and there will be more to go around. Our guest on Downstream…

Published on 2 weeks, 6 days ago

ACFM Microdose: Gardening

Are gardens a sanctuary or an enclosure? The ACFM gang sketch out a weird-left history of gardening, from the walled gardens of paradise to the tarmacked lawns of suburban Britain.

Find the books, m…

Published on 3 weeks ago

Downstream: China Is Building While the West Crumbles w/ Dan Wang

Dan Wang is a technology analyst and author whose life experience, spent partly in North America, partly in China, sets him up as an authoritative observer of the differences and similarities between…

Published on 3 weeks, 6 days ago

Downstream: A Reckoning Is Coming For The Establishment Over Gaza w/ Owen Jones

Owen Jones is a journalist and the author of ‘Chavs’, ‘The Establishment’, and ‘This Land’. He has spent the last 21 months relentlessly reporting and commenting on Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.

He…

Published on 1 month ago

Downstream: The Ancient Indian History Our Schools Don’t Teach w/ William Dalrymple

Ash Sarkar sat down at EartH Hackney with acclaimed historian and author William Dalrymple.

Picking up where they left off last time they spoke on Downstream, Sarkar and Dalrymple had a wide-ranging …

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Novara FM: Where Did Novara Media Come From? w/ Aaron Bastani, James Butler and Ash Sarkar

Novara FM was Novara Media’s first show – it’s now coming to an end.

On the final episode, Richard Hames sat down with Aaron Bastani, James Butler and Ash Sarkar to talk about 15 years of Novara Medi…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Downstream: The Real Reason Millennials Are Screwed w/ Eliza Filby

Dr Eliza Filby is a historian and author of the bestselling book Inheritocracy: It’s Time to Talk About the Bank of Mum and Dad. In conversation with Ash Sarkar, Dr Filby draws on her own life story,…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago