Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSexual Revolution: Modern Fascism and the Feminist Fightback, with Laurie Penny
We are in an era of crisis, collapse, and reactionary tyrants, argues Laurie Penny, but we are also witnessing a transformation: a revolutionary change in how we define gender, sex, consent and whose…
Published on 3 years, 8 months ago
The World for Sale, with Javier Blas and Jack Farchy
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has laid bare the West’s reliance on Russian oil and gas. Around 40 per cent of Europe’s gas comes from Russia, while some 7 per cent of US oil is Russian. Journalists Ja…
Published on 3 years, 8 months ago
How Britain became Butler to the World, with Oliver Bullough
Bestselling investigative journalist Oliver Bullough discusses his recent book, Butler to the World, which details how Britain became a favoured destination for funnelling the finances of oligarchs a…
Published on 3 years, 8 months ago
The Sunday Debate: Iran Is Not Our Enemy
In this debate from the Intelligence Squared archive, we head back to 2020, when we invited journalist and broadcaster Mehdi Hasan, academic and writer Azadeh Moaveni, the Saudi political analyst Sal…
Published on 3 years, 8 months ago
Reflections on Black Consciousness: Lewis Gordon and Paul Gilroy in conversation
Professor Lewis Gordon is a leading philosopher and Department Head at the University of Connecticut who believes that intellectual thought matters as much as political activism in the struggle to ac…
Published on 3 years, 8 months ago
The Animal Queendom: Rethinking Zoology, with Lucy Cooke
In his theory of evolution, Charles Darwin cast the female animal as passive, coy, monogamous and submissive: in other words, in the shape of a Victorian housewife. Meanwhile the male animal became t…
Published on 3 years, 8 months ago
Disorder: Ukraine, Politics and Conflict in the 21st Century, with Helen Thompson
Helen Thompson is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Cambridge, a columnist for The New Statesman, and has been a regular contributor to the Talking Politics podcast. Her new book, D…
Published on 3 years, 8 months ago
The Sunday Debate: Sanctions Won’t Stop Putin
Banks, energy suppliers and oligarchs are just some of the targets that sanctions enforced by the West are looking to put pressure on in order to halt Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine. In this edition…
Published on 3 years, 9 months ago
The Allure of Abandoned Places, with Cal Flyn
Cal Flyn’s Islands of Abandonment was one of the UK’s bestselling books of 2021. It was the Sunday Times Science and Environment book of the year and won her the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year…
Published on 3 years, 9 months ago
No Bullsh*t Leadership, with John Simpson
John Simpson is the BBC’s World Affairs Editor and has dedicated his life to telling stories from the frontline having joined the BBC more than 50 years ago as a reporter. In this special episode, Ch…
Published on 3 years, 9 months ago