Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHalima Aden: Challenging supermodel stereotypes
The designer catwalk and the glossy magazine cover are powerful cultural signifiers. Top models who occupy those spaces are deemed to have a look tha…
6 years, 3 months ago
Agnes Callamard: Investigating the Khashoggi and Soleimani killings
There are international laws and norms designed to prohibit states from bumping off their enemies, internal or external. But look around the world, a…
6 years, 3 months ago
Paul Krugman: Nobel Prize-winning economist warns of threat to America’s economic future
Remember the time when political discourse was founded on those quaint concepts - facts, evidence, and expertise? Now it seems partisanship infects e…
6 years, 3 months ago
Len McCluskey: What's the future of the UK Labour Party?
Like many of Europe’s long-established parties of the left, the UK Labour Party is in big trouble. In last December’s election, Labour wasn’t just be…
6 years, 3 months ago
John Kani: Art and activism
For a generation of black South African artists who came of age in the apartheid era, art and activism were intertwined; the liberation struggle was …
6 years, 3 months ago
Ian Blackford: Does the SNP have a winning strategy?
Ian Blackford is the Scottish Nationalist MP for a vast tract of north-west Scotland, and the leader of the SNP’s 48-strong band of Westminster MPs. …
6 years, 3 months ago
Ai Weiwei: Huawei, Hong Kong and being an artist in exile
China's rise to economic superpower status has not brought with it an opening up of politics or culture. Far from it. The Communist Party has intensi…
6 years, 3 months ago
Lauri Love: The realities of cyber security
Stephen Sackur speaks to the accused computer hacker Lauri Love. For nations, corporations and all of us as individuals, the age of the internet has …
6 years, 4 months ago
Jean-Claude Juncker: What's next for the EU and Britain?
Britain is at an historic fork in the road - taking the UK in a new direction, and maybe Europe too. Many on both sides didn't think it would come to…
6 years, 4 months ago
Patrick Suckling: Is Australia becoming a climate pariah?
Since September 2019, bush fires in Australia have consumed 10 million hectares of land – an area almost the size of England. People have died, homes…
6 years, 4 months ago