Podcast Episodes

Debate: Sanctions Don’t Work as a Tool of Foreign Policy

Season 1 Episode 3327

In partnership with GlobalSanctions.com, the world’s leading online resource for up to the minute information on sanctions and export controls worldwide.

Sanctions have become one of the most widely …

Published on 1 month ago

How does a nation’s language shape its identity? Hannah Kent on her year in Iceland

Season 1 Episode 3326

When Australian writer Hannah Kent first travelled to Iceland at the age of 17, she had never seen snow before, and didn’t speak a word of Icelandic. Living in a remote part of Iceland during the dar…

Published on 1 month ago

How To Lose Your Country, with Ece Temelkuran (Part Two)

Season 1 Episode 3325

Temelkuran is a brilliant writer, finding humour, hope and humanity in the darkest corners of our current malaise.’ – BRIAN ENO

Ece Temelkuran is the award winning Turkish writer and author who was f…

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How To Lose Your Country, with Ece Temelkuran (Part One)

Season 1 Episode 3324

Temelkuran is a brilliant writer, finding humour, hope and humanity in the darkest corners of our current malaise.’ – BRIAN ENO

Ece Temelkuran is the award winning Turkish writer and author who was f…

Published on 1 month ago

Why Are We So Addicted to Everything? With Nicklas Brendborg

Season 1 Episode 3323

Are we living in a world designed to hijack our brains?

In this episode, Dr Emma Yhnell speaks to international best-selling author Nicklas Brendborg about how supernormal stimuli have become the nor…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Sotheby’s Talks | The Leonard A. Lauder Collection: Klimt and the Art of Connoisseurship

Season 1 Episode 3322

On today’s episode, an episode from our friends at Sotheby's exploring the remarkable collection of Leonard A. Lauder, one of the greatest collectors and benefactors of the arts in America. At its ce…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Is This the Twilight of American Supremacy? Simon Jenkins on Why the World Needs the USA

Season 1 Episode 3321

The United States of America is younger than the British Museum and Guinness - in 2026 it celebrates its 250th birthday. How did this vast melting pot of people and ideas come to dominate global poli…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Olivia Laing on Passion and Heartbreak in the Golden Age of New Italian Cinema

Season 1 Episode 3320

Olivia Laing is an internationally acclaimed writer and critic. They are the author of eight books, including The Lonely City, Everybody and the Sunday Times bestseller The Garden Against Time. Laing…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Salman Rushdie on Mortality, Memory and The Eleventh Hour

Season 1 Episode 3319

Salman Rushdie is one of the world’s most acclaimed, award-winning contemporary authors. 

Translated into over forty languages, his sixteen works of fiction include Midnight’s Children – for which he…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

What was the Iranian Revolution really about? With Scott Anderson

Season 1 Episode 3318

Scott Anderson is a veteran foreign reporter and war correspondent, and a contributing writer for The New York Times. Over his career he has reported from Bosnia, Libya, Palestine and across the Midd…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago