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Back to SearchDickens vs Tolstoy: The Battle Of The Great 19th-century Novelists PART 1
Season 1 Episode 1003
Dickens. Tolstoy. Their names and reputations shake the ground – and so do their books, if you drop one. But whose legacy is more enduring? Whose vision truer and more relevant today? Should you emba…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
Rome’s Golden Age with Tom Holland
Season 1 Episode 1002
What was Rome like during its zenith? In July 2023 acclaimed historian and co-host of The Rest Is History podcast Tom Holland came to Intelligence Squared to paint a vivid picture of Rome during the …
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
How to Flex Your Imagination Muscle
Season 1 Episode 1001
What is it to imagine exactly? How do we go about it, and why is it so important that we imagine for ourselves? In July 2023 author and Condé Nast Britain managing director Albert Read came to Intell…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
Mariana Mazzucato and Stella Creasy on the Global Economy, PART 2
Season 1 Episode 1000
This is the second part of a two-part interview. Recorded in 2018, economist and author Mariana Mazzucato discusses her book, The Value of Everything, with UK Labour MP Stella Creasy. It's a wide-ran…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
Mariana Mazzucato and Stella Creasy on the Global Economy, PART 1
Season 1 Episode 999
In this two-part episode recorded in 2018, economist and author Mariana Mazzucato discusses her book, The Value of Everything, with UK Labour MP Stella Creasy. It's a wide-ranging discussion looking …
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
Eighty Is The New Thirty: A Guide To Getting Older, PART 2
Season 1 Episode 997
This is the second part of a three-part interview. Join us for more in the following episode. We tend to associate old age with deterioration, especially of our mental powers and memory. But today we…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
Eighty Is The New Thirty: A Guide To Getting Older, PART 1
Season 1 Episode 996
We tend to associate old age with deterioration, especially of our mental powers and memory. But today we are seeing a new cohort of the so-called young-old, people in their sixties, seventies and be…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
Gloria Estefan on the Latin American Dream
Season 1 Episode 995
Gloria Estefan is one of the most successful female singers ever. With more than 120 million records sold worldwide, three Grammy Awards, and a career spanning four decades, she has helped make Latin…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
The Networks of History, with Niall Ferguson
Season 1 Episode 994
Niall Ferguson is the preeminent historian of the ideas that define our time. He has challenged how we think about money, power, civilisation and empires. Now he wants to reimagine history itself. Ne…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
The Futureverse: The Risk-Takers, with Simon Reeve and Christina Lamb
Season 1 Episode 993
Not many of us can claim to have hunted with the Bushmen of the Kalahari; been detained for spying by the KGB; or smuggled ourselves over a border into an active war zone under the floorboards of an …
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago