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Will A.I. really kill us all?
Season 1 Episode 1688
Amid the multi-trillion dollar stampede to build and control A.I., one question is being drowned out: Will artificial intelligence kill the entire human race, and all life on the planet? Nate Soares …
Published on 2 weeks ago
Coup at the BBC – Start Your Week with Ros Taylor
Season 1 Episode 1687
The BBC’s Director General and head of news are forced to resign in a confected row about Donald Trump’s incendiary Jan 6 speech. Overdue accountability for mediocre leaders, or a successful drive-by…
Published on 2 weeks, 1 day ago
NEW Weekly Wrap-Up – From New York to Westminster with Alex von Tunzelmann
Season 1 Episode 1686
NEW: If you like Start Your Week’s look ahead, how about a round-up of the biggest, strangest, most important stories of the week, every Friday? On today’s debut edition: What Zohran Mamdani’s win in…
Published on 2 weeks, 4 days ago
Iron Curtain Call – How The Spy Who Came In From The Cold still tells the ugly truth about espionage
Season 1 Episode 1685
John le Carré was still a working secret agent when he wrote The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, the book that shocked the Britain of 1963 with its portrait of espionage not as heroic but as sordid, m…
Published on 2 weeks, 5 days ago
One year of Trump 2.0 – Does scandal mean anything anymore?
Season 1 Episode 1684
It's been a year since Trump’s election victory, how has US politics changed? What’s the trajectory? And is there any hope for the future? Emma Kennedy is joined by Casey Burgat, author of We Hold Th…
Published on 2 weeks, 6 days ago
Could it happen here? The threat of a British version of MAGA
Season 1 Episode 1683
The MAGA cult’s idol worship is the fuel for Trump’s war on American democracy. As British politics lurches to the right, could something similar ever happen here? Could violent racist nationalism an…
Published on 3 weeks ago
Knife attack fallout, Andrew scandal and Trump’s wars — Start Your Week with Gavin Esler
Season 1 Episode 1682
The horrific train stabbing attack at the weekend has shaken the nation. But are the media and politicians talking about it responsibly? Plus, the Andrew scandal rolls on and Trump continues to to co…
Published on 3 weeks, 1 day ago
How will Trump fall? – Five ways his reign might end
Season 1 Episode 1681
From troops on the streets to desecrating the White House to literal sh*tposting videos, Trump’s fascistic reign is relentless and exhausting. One day it will end – but how? Will he run out of steam,…
Published on 3 weeks, 4 days ago
One battle after another – The extremists who hijacked the 1970s
Season 1 Episode 1680
In the 1970s, a new kind of revolutionary emerged: terrorists who used spectacle as a weapon. Plane hijackings, hostage crises and televised terror became the tools of radicals. Figures like Leila Kh…
Published on 3 weeks, 5 days ago
Trump’s money mayhem — From his father’s millions to history’s biggest grift
Season 1 Episode 1679
Donald Trump built his brand on the myth of the self-made billionaire. The man who turned a ‘small loan’ from his father into a global empire. But behind the gold-plated image lies a trail of bankrup…
Published on 3 weeks, 6 days ago