Podcast Episodes

Former FBI Director James Comey on Trump, his new Crime Thriller and The Politics of Justice

Season 1 Episode 3035

James Comey is the former FBI Director turned crime novelist who has spent a career fighting organised crime and hostile threats to American democracy. In 2016 as head of the FBI, he reopened a previ…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Generation One: The Climate Podcast | Brought to you by UCL

Season 1 Episode 3034

This is an episode of Generation One: The Climate Podcast, brought to you by UCL.

Generation One is a collective of people committed to a new era of positive climate action. By turning science and id…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

The Story of Wartime Kyiv, with Illia Ponomarenko

Season 1 Episode 3033

Ukrainian journalist Illia Ponomarenko is a co-founder of The Kyiv Independent and former defence and security reporter for the Kyiv Post. He's been one of the most important voices reporting from th…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Gut Feelings: A History of Our Most Mysterious Organ, with Elsa Richardson

Season 1 Episode 3032

Cultural historian Elsa Richardson discusses her book, Rumbles: A Curious History of the Gut. It looks at our relationship over the centuries with a very intimate part of the body but one for which m…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

How Inequality in Healthcare Makes Society Sick, with Layal Liverpool and Chris van Tulleken, Part Two

Season 1 Episode 3031

The is the second instalment of a two-part discussion. We’re living longer than ever before but we are also spending more years in poor health and some communities become more sick than others. In Ju…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

How Inequality in Healthcare Makes Society Sick, with Layal Liverpool and Chris van Tulleken, Part One

Season 1 Episode 3030

The is the first instalment of a two-part discussion. We’re living longer than ever before but we are also spending more years in poor health and some communities become more sick than others. In Jun…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

Surprise Gift: How Inherited Generational Traits Underpin Our Societies, with Harvey Whitehouse

Season 1 Episode 3029

Renowned social anthropologist Harvey Whitehouse is Director of the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Oxford and has crisscrossed the globe, living in remote p…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

Why Parenthood is a Numbers Game, with Emily Oster

Season 1 Episode 3028

Emily Oster is an economist whose analytical eye is often focused on how to make better sense of the data behind raising children. As professor of economics at Brown University her analysis of the fa…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

Archive – Can We Fix Capitalism? Yanis Varoufakis vs Gillian Tett

Season 1 Episode 3027

This is a dip back into the extensive Intelligence Squared archive from October, 2021. Should capitalism be reformed or replaced? Former Greek Finance Minister and economist Yanis Varoufakis and Gill…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

The Invisible Science of Gas, with Mark Miodownik

Season 1 Episode 3026

Mark Miodownik is the materials scientist and engineer whose new book is It’s a Gas: The Magnificent and Elusive Elements that Expand Our World. The book is an exploration of that most ethereal of ma…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago