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Burnham gets serious – Start Your Week with Ros Taylor and Andrew Harrison
Season 1 Episode 1889
Setting up the stories for the week ahead… The carefree summer of announcing fun policies is over for Andy Burnham as Parliament returns with tricky …
3 weeks, 6 days ago
Parton is such sweet sorrow – Weekly Wrap-Up with Zoë Grünewald
Season 1 Episode 1888
Looking back at the big stories of the past seven days… Dolly Parton’s death leaves the world brokenhearted but reflecting on a true rarity: someone …
1 month ago
Inside the clickbait storm – Hot Take Time Machine with Jonn Elledge and Miranda Sawyer
Season 1 Episode 1887
Hot Take Time Machine is back with Paper Cuts alumni Miranda Sawyer, Jonn Elledge and Jacob Jarvis sniffing out the strangest, worst – and occasional…
1 month ago
Lightbulb moments – John Elledge on the big ideas that created our world
Season 1 Episode 1886
We’re living through another technological revolution, but it’s easy to take for granted how much of the world around us was once a radical new inven…
1 month ago
Churchill, JFK, Mao, Alex Ferguson… The “great leader” is a myth, says Jared Diamond
Season 1 Episode 1885
Do great leaders actually matter? Or are they just being carried along by bigger forces – from timing to sheer dumb luck? It’s the question that unde…
1 month ago
Burnham’s summer review – Start Your Week with Gavin Esler and Ros Taylor
Season 1 Episode 1884
Burnham’s summer is coming to an end, how has his start in office gone? And what problems does he have to look forward to? Plus, there are new hackin…
1 month ago
Trump’s emotional support dictator – Weekly Wrap-Up with Rafael Behr
Season 1 Episode 1883
Looking back on the big stories of the past seven days… Donald Trump is once again cosying up to his dictator bestie Kim Jong Un – what’s he got up …
1 month, 1 week ago
How the Middle East was made — with Simon Sebag Montefiore
Season 1 Episode 1882
How did we get the modern Middle East? Who shaped it and does the term even make sense in our current era? Seth Thévoz speaks to Simon Sebag Montefio…
1 month, 1 week ago
The Age of Surveillance is rewiring our minds
Season 1 Episode 1881
We live in a surveillance world, but what is it doing to us? To give one small example, hackers figured out Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson’s …
1 month, 1 week ago
The Nerd Reich – How tech billionaires went fascist
Season 1 Episode 1880
Silicon Valley’s overlords have completely lost their minds. Gil Durán, Kamala Harris’ former communications director and now a journalist, says Elon…
1 month, 1 week ago