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Back to SearchDifficult Feminism: History’s Complicated Changemakers
Season 1 Episode 884
International Women’s Week on Intelligence Squared. Change is never easy, it requires putting up a fight, going against the status quo, and if you’re a woman - this may require you to be difficult. I…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
Me Too: The Women Who Helped Ignite a Movement
Season 1 Episode 883
International Women’s Week on Intelligence Squared. On this episode we hear from some of the women who helped sparked the 2017 MeToo movement. Jodi Kantor and Meghan Twohey are the Pulitzer Prize-win…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
Old World vs New World: The Great Wine Debate
Season 1 Episode 882
For the Sunday Debate this week, a dip back into the archive to 2019 when we partnered with Waitrose to invite three of the UK’s top wine experts to settle a rivalry for the ages: the so-called Old W…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
Mary Beard on Women and Power in Western Culture
Season 1 Episode 881
How has Western culture depicted powerful women down the ages? To what extent have they been packaged into a male template? And how much have they been able to control their own image? Featuring clas…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
Bernie Sanders on Money and Power
Season 1 Episode 880
Senator Bernie Sanders is seen by many as the leader of the progressive movement in the United States. On this episode of the podcast, recorded in central London, he spoke to BBC broadcaster Justin W…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
Introducing...Intelligence Squared: Arts & Culture
We have some really exciting news for you, we're launching a brand new podcast – Intelligence Squared Arts & Culture.
Join us every week as we delve into the artistic and cultural moments, movements a…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
Remembering The Cultural Revolution In Modern China
Season 1 Episode 878
Journalist Tania Branigan has spent years covering China and is Foreign Leader writer for the Guardian. Her new book, Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China’s Cultural Revolution, explo…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
The Sunday Debate: Should the West Send Fighter Jets to Ukraine?
Season 1 Episode 877
As the war in Ukraine reaches its one year anniversary, there is still no clear end in sight. And while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy anticipates Russia’s spring offensive, he’s been clear …
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
Russia and Ukraine: One Year On
Season 1 Episode 876
On this episode of the podcast we look back on one year of Russia’s war in Ukraine by revisiting 10 Intelligence Squared conversations over the past 12 months with historians, politicians, journalist…
Published on 2 years, 10 months ago
How Nigeria Is Making Peace With The Legacy Of Its Civil War
Season 1 Episode 875
Emmanuel Iduma is a Nigerian author and critic whose new book, I Am Still With You, explores the legacy of the Nigerian Civil War, which began in 1967 and lasted nearly three years. In the book, Idum…
Published on 2 years, 10 months ago