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Back to SearchHow Technology Has Made Us What We Are, with Tom Chatfield
Season 1 Episode 2058
Tom Chatfield is a tech philosopher whose new book looks at how humans have lived side by side with technology for millennia and offers ideas for how humanity will fare in the imminent AI-powered fut…
Published on 1 year, 8 months ago
Misogyny and the Middle-Aged Woman, with Victoria Smith, Hadley Freeman and Sonia Sodha, Part Two
Season 1 Episode 2057
This is Part Two of a three-part discussion. Why are middle-aged women these days subject to so much rage and hatred – frequently from people who see themselves as kind and ‘on the right side of hist…
Published on 1 year, 8 months ago
Misogyny and the Middle-Aged Woman, with Victoria Smith, Hadley Freeman and Sonia Sodha, Part One
Season 1 Episode 2056
This is Part One of a three-part discussion. Why are middle-aged women these days subject to so much rage and hatred – frequently from people who see themselves as kind and ‘on the right side of hist…
Published on 1 year, 8 months ago
The Long Shadow of AI, with Madhumita Murgia
Season 1 Episode 2055
As a writer who focuses on technology and as AI Editor for The Financial Times, Madhumita Murgia has been unable to ignore the increasing reach of AI into the infrastructure that helps run our societ…
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
How to Fix the Inequality of Wealth, with Liam Byrne
Season 1 Episode 2054
The Labour MP Liam Byrne is Chair of the House of Commons Business and Trade Select Committee. He also served on the front bench for both prime ministers Gordon Brown and Tony Blair. So he is well-po…
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
Page-Turner: A History of the Notebook
Season 1 Episode 2053
Roland Allen is a publisher and author whose new book is a history of that everyday essential, the humble notebook. His book – The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper – explores how the notebook…
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
Reimagining the Life of Mary, Queen of Scots, with Flora Carr
Season 1 Episode 2052
Debut novelist Flora Carr's new book, The Tower, looks at the life Scotland's 16th-century monarch Mary, Queen of Scots. In this tale of desire and friendship, Carr weaves in figures that have been l…
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook with Martin Wolf
Season 1 Episode 2051
2024 is set to be a seismic year. A win by Donald Trump in the US presidential election could upend the world economy, ongoing military conflicts could continue to escalate and the race to develop AI…
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
Can You Put a Price Tag on a Life? with Jenny Kleeman
Season 1 Episode 2050
It’s often said that you can’t put a price on a life but in the name of business many organisations do it everyday. Drawing from the themes of her latest book, The Price of Life, journalist and broad…
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler, with Peter Pomerantsev
Season 1 Episode 2049
Peter Pomerantsev is the journalist, author and academic who specialises in disinformation and the more covert mass communication techniques of our geopolitical age. His latest book is How to Win an …
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago