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The Sunday Debate: Neville Chamberlain Did The Right Thing
As the new film, The Edge of War, hits Netflix screens starring Jeremy Irons as British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain negotiating on the brink of World War Two in 1938, we revisit an archive deb…
Published on 3 years, 10 months ago
The Pandemic on the Page, with Roopa Farooki
Roopa Farooki is a doctor, author and creative-writing lecturer, whose new book, Everything Is True, tells the story of her first 40 days treating patients during the pandemic in the UK. She speaks w…
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago
The Untold Story of the Rothschild Women, with Natalie Livingstone
Natalie Livingstone’s recently published book, The Women of Rothschild, tells the lesser known stories of the women who have played pivotal roles in one of the world’s most storied family dynasties t…
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago
Business Weekly: The Future of publishing
Zillah Byng-Thorne is CEO of Future, the UK’s biggest magazine publishing group. With a stable of over 160 titles across print and online including recent acquisitions such as Wallpaper and The Week,…
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago
The Sunday Debate: It's Time to Break Up Facebook
Whether we call it Facebook or the recently coined Meta, the Silicon Valley tech giant founded by Mark Zuckerberg has rarely been out of the headlines since its inception over a decade ago and rarely…
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago
Coming of Age in a Country Reborn, with Lea Ypi
Lea Ypi grew up in Albania during the 1980s and 1990s, the last Stalinist outpost in Europe. Almost impossible to visit and nearly impossible to leave, during that era it was a place of queuing and s…
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago
Liberalism in Dark Times
In today's highly polarised political landscape, Liberalism, somewhere in the middle, often comes under attack from both right and left. Joshua L Cherniss is Associate Professor of Government at Geor…
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago
Business Weekly: How influencers break the internet
Olivia Yallop is a strategist, creative and trend analyser, whose new book Break the Internet lifts the lid on how the influencer economy works. She speaks with Carl Miller, Research Director of the …
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago
The Sunday Debate: Verdi vs Wagner
Verdi created some of the most beloved operas of all time. Wagner’s music is in an altogether more intellectual sphere. Back in 2013, Stephen Fry hosted a debate featuring cultural critic and author …
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago
Martin Wolf on the World in 2022
2022 looks set to be another seismic year. A new Covid-19 variant threatens to prolong the pandemic. A diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics looks likely to escalate tensions with China. …
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago