Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchGeorgia Holly et al, .eds., "Heritage in the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030) and Beyond" (U Edinburgh Press, 2025)
Episode 2117
Heritage in the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030) and Beyond (U Edinburgh Press, 2025) outlines the need to embed…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Ambrogio Caiani, "Flirting with Evil: The Catholic Church in the Age of Total War and Globalisation" (Apollo, 2026)
Episode 2116
It's a shadowy, ornate world of cover-ups and hidden motives. In Flirting with Evil: The Catholic Church in the Age of Total War and Globalisation (…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Rory Cormac, "Fakers: A Top-Secret Tale of Phantoms and Forgeries on the Disinformation Front Line" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Episode 2115
Fakers: A Top-Secret Tale of Phantoms and Forgeries on the Disinformation Front Line (Oxford UP, 2026) reveals the rise and fall of the mavericks run…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Massoud Amin, "Both Your Houses: Iran, America, and the Wages of Unchecked Power" (Wisdom Editions, 2026)
Episode 2114
In Both Your Houses: Iran, America, and the Wages of Unchecked Power (Wisdom Editions, 2026), Massoud Amin confronts the war between Iran, Israel, …
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Dan Altman, "Taking Territory: The Persistence of Conquest Since 1945" (Cornell UP, 2026)
Episode 2113
Taking Territory: The Persistence of Conquest Since 1945 (Cornell University Press, 2026) is an eye-opening account of why territorial conquest persi…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Kit Chapman, "The Age of Alchemy: How Early Innovators Shaped Modern Chemistry" (Profile Books, 2026)
Episode 2112
The first chemists were Sri Lankan forgers who crafted unimaginably strong steel millennia before it should have been possible. They were alchemi…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Aswin Punathambekar, Adrienne Shaw and Jonathan Gray eds., "Planet Digital: A Global Media Cultures Reader" (NYU Press, 2026)
Episode 2111
In the three decades since the rise of the global internet, digitalization has transformed how media are made, circulated, and consumed, reshaping …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Tyler Girard, "Financial Inclusion: How an Idea Became a Global Agenda" (Stanford UP, 2026)
Episode 2110
The number of people in the world with a bank account or money service provider increased by 2 billion over the past decade. This phenomenon refle…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
How “They” See “Us” with editor Madeleine Schwartz
Episode 2108
The remarkable political ascent of Donald J. Trump and his sustained grip on a certain segment of American society have given fresh life to a questio…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Sadiah Qureshi, "Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction" (Penguin, 2025)
Episode 2109
Anyone alive today is among a tiny fraction of the once living: over 90% of species that ever existed are now extinct. How did we come to think of …
3 months, 4 weeks ago