Podcast Episodes

Why Religion Keeps Evolving, with Robin Dunbar

Season 1 Episode 744

Robin Dunbar has been hailed as one of the most insightful and creative evolutionary thinkers of our time, famed for his work on human networks and communities (he came up with the Dunbar number, the…

Published on 3 years, 4 months ago

The Sunday Debate: Angela Merkel is Destroying Europe

Season 1 Episode 743

In this archive listen from 2013, we explore the global political impact of a leader whose legacy and influence is still being questioned today: Angela Merkel. As with any leader, a legacy isn't set …

Published on 3 years, 4 months ago

The Man Who Escaped Auschwitz to Warn the World, with Jonathan Freedland

Season 1 Episode 742

During the Second World War, Rudolph Vrba was one of the very few people to escape the horrors of the Auschwitz concentration camp. He did so along with fellow escapee, Alfred Wetzler, in April 1944.…

Published on 3 years, 4 months ago

Breaking the Power of Big Tech, with Jamie Susskind

Season 1 Episode 741

Trolling, conspiracy theories, racist algorithms, cyberwarfare – every day our headlines are ablaze with negative stories about the internet. The problem? The unaccountable power of the big tech comp…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

Next Steps for an Anti-Racist Society, with Ibram X. Kendi

Season 1 Episode 740

Activist, academic and author Ibram X. Kendi joins us for a discussion on his new book, How to Raise an Antiracist. It follows his Intelligence Squared talk that took place in 2019 outlining how to i…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

The Sunday Debate: The Battle for the Countryside, with George Monbiot, Rory Stewart, Minette Batters and Mark Cocker

Season 1 Episode 739

This event was recorded on the 10th of July 2018 in London

SPEAKERS FOR THE MOTION: Mark Cocker - Author and naturalist and George Monbiot - Guardian columnist, environmental campaigner and author of …

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

The Magical World of Animal Senses, with Ed Yong

Season 1 Episode 738

What do bees sense in flowers? What do songbirds hear in each others’ tunes? And what’s that smell sending your dog running up the street? These questions and many more are the basis of science commu…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

The Futureverse: Reimagining Worth

Season 1 Episode 737

How do we define value? How has this changed over time? And who decides what is deemed valuable? For centuries, society has seen value mainly through an economic lens: one takes a job because of its …

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

Doughnut Economics, with Kate Raworth

Season 1 Episode 736

Oxford University economist Kate Raworth has been described by the author and environmentalist George Monbiot as, "The John Maynard Keynes of the 21st century." In 2018, she came to Intelligence Squa…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

The Sunday Debate: Hip-hop vs Shakespeare

Season 1 Episode 735

Created in partnership with Sotheby's, in a debate that spans the centuries, Peabody Award-winning spoken word performer George the Poet and Booker Prize-winning author Howard Jacobson go head-to-hea…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago