Podcast Episodes

Fear: An Alternative History of the World

Season 1 Episode 1055

Anyone who follows the news cycle knows that between conflict and pandemics, the looming threat of the climate crisis, powerful AI and not to mention political scaremongering and moral panics, we’re …

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

Wes Streeting on Navigating a Path from Poverty to Politics

Season 1 Episode 1054

The Labour MP Wes Streeting reveals his childhood struggle with poverty and the inspirational figures who set him on the path to university and politics in this discussion with BBC Radio 4 broadcaste…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

Oil Today: Beyond Extraction

Season 1 Episode 1053

This is an episode of Tides of Transformation: An Oil Story, a brand new podcast from Intelligence Squared.

In this episode, Gavin Bridge from Durham University and James Marriott of Platform London a…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

Power Trip: The Age of AI

Season 1 Episode 1052

When did you first hear of GPT, Claude, DALL-E or Bard? Feels like a while ago, right? In barely over a year AI has permeated our conversations, our places of work and it feels omnipresent in the cul…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

Gillian Tett and Yanis Varoufakis: Can We Fix Capitalism?

Season 1 Episode 1051

We revisit a debate from 2021 between the former Greek finance minister, economist and author Yanis Varoufakis, and Gillian Tett, the Financial Times columnist, anthropologist, and author. The two ga…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

Debate: We Should All Go Vegan, Part 2

Season 1 Episode 1050

This is the second instalment of our two-part debate, with George Monbiot, Guardian columnist, environmental campaigner and author of Regenesis: Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet, arguin…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

Debate: We Should All Go Vegan, Part 1

Season 1 Episode 1049

In this two-part debate, George Monbiot, Guardian columnist, environmental campaigner and author of Regenesis: Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet, argues for the motion We Should All Go V…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

The End of the Murdoch Empire

Season 1 Episode 1047

Until recently, the Murdoch's formed the most powerful media and political force in America. Now their empire is cracking up and crashing down. Michael Wolff the acclaimed author of a trilogy of book…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

What Britain Gets Wrong About Race

Season 1 Episode 1045

Tomiwa Owolade is a rising star of literary and cultural criticism in the UK. His first book is This Is Not America: Why Black Lives in Britain Matter. In this discussion, Owolade joins commentator I…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

Putin's Shrinking Circle: Russia after Prigozhin

Season 1 Episode 1043

Mark Galeotti is one of the world’s leading experts on modern Russia and is the author of books such as Putin’s Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine and The Weaponisation of Everything: A Field Guide to th…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago