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Back to SearchHadley Freeman and Bari Weiss on Anorexia
Season 1 Episode 924
Shortly after her fourteenth birthday, Hadley Freeman stopped eating. From the age of fourteen to seventeen, she lived in various psychiatric wards w…
3 years ago
No Peace: The Story of the Rohingya in Myanmar
Season 1 Episode 923
The Rohingya people of Myanmar have been persecuted for decades. The worst period of violence flared up in August 2017, when almost 700,000 Rohingya …
3 years ago
The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation
Season 1 Episode 922
On Easter weekend 1993 Nelson Mandela was engaged in slow-moving power-sharing talks with President F.W. de Klerk when a white supremacist shot Mande…
3 years ago
Debate: Who Will Win the Next General Election?
Season 1 Episode 921
Is the UK’s 2024 general election a foregone conclusion, with the Labour Party some 20 points ahead in the opinion polls? Can Rishi Sunak turn around…
3 years ago
The Gendered Politics of Climate Change
Season 1 Episode 920
As Earth Day approaches, we revisit a compelling conversation from 2021 asking which factors are really responsible for the climate emergency and who…
3 years ago
Healthy or Wealthy?: The Commodification of Healthcare
Season 1 Episode 919
The American healthcare system is one of the most expensive and complex systems in the world, yet it remains plagued by significant inequalities. Des…
3 years ago
Brave New Birth: The Ethics of Artificial Womb Technology
Season 1 Episode 918
As technology continues to advance, the once distant concept of growing a human fetus outside the womb is inching closer to reality. But with these a…
3 years ago
Archive: Contemporary Art Excludes the 99%
Season 1 Episode 917
What is the role of contemporary art museums today? Are biennales and art fairs platforms for experiment and exchange, or little more than social att…
3 years ago
Russell Kane on Class and Comedy
Season 1 Episode 916
Samira Ahmed speaks to award-winning comedian Russell Kane. They speak about his life and career, growing up in Essex, his break into comedy at the p…
3 years ago
Gods and Mortals: What Ancient Greek Myths Can Teach Us About Today
Season 1 Episode 915
Hercules, Prometheus, Pandora. The compelling characters of Greek mythology continue to fascinate readers thousands of years after their stories were…
3 years ago