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COP26: How Women Can Save the Planet, with Anne Karpf
As the COP26 global climate summit takes place, many are asking who is really responsible for the climate emergency and who might be able to prevent …
4 years, 5 months ago
How to fix a country, with James Plunkett
James Plunkett's new book, End State: 9 Ways Society is Broken, draws on his years working in both public policy and at the top tiers of governm…
4 years, 5 months ago
Scary Smart with Mo Gawdat
Mo Gawdat was Chief Business Officer of Google X, the experimental development arm of the internet behemoth. He's since written books on ho…
4 years, 6 months ago
The Sunday Debate: Is COP26 a turning point for the planet?
This debate, recorded on Thursday 28th October 2021, was part of Energised, a debate series from Intelligence Squared in partnership with Iberdrola, …
4 years, 6 months ago
COP26: Everything you need to know
With the devastating effects of the climate emergency becoming more urgent by the day, the COP26 summit in Glasgow now represents a pivotal moment in…
4 years, 6 months ago
Mary Beard on Images of Power from the Ancient to the Modern World
What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of figures we deplore? In October 2021 Ma…
4 years, 6 months ago
Business Weekly: Richard Branson on a Life of Entrepreneurship
In this week's Business Weekly, Samira Ahmed speaks to business mogul Sir Richard Branson about becoming a serial entrepreneur developing the Virgin …
4 years, 6 months ago
The Sunday Debate: Should the West pay Reparations for Slavery?
Should there be a broad programme of reparations – not just financial compensation, but acknowledgement of the crimes committed and the lasting damag…
4 years, 6 months ago
The Untold Story of African Europeans, with Olivette Otele
The history of Africans in Europe may seem recent – a result of migration in the 20th and 21st centuries – but in her new book, African Europeans, hi…
4 years, 6 months ago
Empire of Pain: Sacklers, Opioids and the Sickening of America
How did one family become associated with an epidemic of drug addiction that has caused the death of almost half a million people?
In this episode, aw…
4 years, 6 months ago