Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWhy 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 c…
3 years, 9 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: Ange…
3 years, 9 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 w…
3 years, 9 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 pro…
3 years, 9 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 Squar…
3 years, 9 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 …
3 years, 9 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 ques…
3 years, 9 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…
3 years, 9 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 21s…
3 years, 9 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 P…
3 years, 9 months ago