Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWhat is the metaverse and can it replace the real world?
Episode 248
The idea of a virtual world existing in parallel to the real one was once the stuff of science fiction. But today, millions of people are already spe…
4 years, 8 months ago
A journey into the future of the UAE’s Etihad Rail
Episode 247
The UAE is a country of cars and buses. The only way to travel between Abu Dhabi and Dubai, the two major cities, is by road - a journey of at least …
4 years, 8 months ago
How CIA pop music helped elect the president of the Philippines
Episode 246
Filipinos will go to the polls in May to elect a new president, marking the end of Rodrigo Duterte’s years in power. Presidential hopefuls will be us…
4 years, 8 months ago
What Israel’s Omicron wave means for global vaccine push
Episode 245
In Israel in January 2021, then prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised the people that if they turned out at vaccine centres then Israel would be…
4 years, 9 months ago
Can Iran and the US reach a new nuclear deal?
Episode 244
Talks in Vienna between Iran and the US have resumed in the hope of reviving the 2015 nuclear deal.
It was then US President Donald Trump who, in 201…
4 years, 9 months ago
A look back at 2021 (Part 2): The Taliban takeover and the Gaza-Israel War
Episode 243
This week, as we wrap up 2021, we’re looking at two conflicts that have defined not only the past year, but the past few decades.
We’re talking about…
4 years, 9 months ago
A look back at 2021 (Part 1): Covid-19 and the space race
Episode 242
Lockdowns may have given way to Covid vaccine drives in 2021 but as the year ends, the spread of Omicron has pushed millions back into some form of s…
4 years, 9 months ago
How worried should we be about the Omicron variant?
Episode 241
A new variant of coronavirus is spreading across the globe.
Named Omicron, after the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet, it has sparked travel bans a…
4 years, 9 months ago
Macron in the Middle East
Episode 240
President Emmanuel Macron of France has been back in the Middle East. This time he was in Saudi Arabia, his first visit to the kingdom since 2017, be…
4 years, 10 months ago
50 years of the UAE through the eyes of those who lived it
Episode 239
The UAE is 50 years old. Half a century of growth and change has taken place to bring a small desert country to the forefront of global recognition. …
4 years, 10 months ago