Podcast Episodes

COP26: How Women Can Save the Planet, with Anne Karpf

As the COP26 global climate summit takes place, many are asking who is really responsible for the climate emergency and who might be able to prevent it? Dr Anne Karpf is a writer and sociol…

Published on 4 years, 1 month ago

How to fix a country, with James Plunkett

James Plunkett's new book, End State: 9 Ways Society is Broken, draws on his years working in both public policy and at the top tiers of government. A former advisor to UK prime minister Gordon …

Published on 4 years, 1 month ago

Scary Smart with Mo Gawdat

Mo Gawdat was Chief Business Officer of Google X, the experimental development arm of the internet behemoth. He's since written books on how to find happiness and his new one, Scary Smart, …

Published on 4 years, 1 month ago

The Sunday Debate: Is COP26 a turning point for the planet?

This debate, recorded on Thursday 28th October 2021, was part of Energised, a debate series from Intelligence Squared in partnership with Iberdrola, a leading company in the field of renewable energy…

Published on 4 years, 1 month ago

COP26: Everything you need to know

With the devastating effects of the climate emergency becoming more urgent by the day, the COP26 summit in Glasgow now represents a pivotal moment in global cooperation on the issue. Can anything mea…

Published on 4 years, 1 month ago

Mary Beard on Images of Power from the Ancient to the Modern World

What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of figures we deplore? In October 2021 Mary Beard, Britain’s best known classicist, came to…

Published on 4 years, 1 month ago

Business Weekly: Richard Branson on a Life of Entrepreneurship

In this week's Business Weekly, Samira Ahmed speaks to business mogul Sir Richard Branson about becoming a serial entrepreneur developing the Virgin brand, signing some of the biggest names in music …

Published on 4 years, 1 month ago

The Sunday Debate: Should the West pay Reparations for Slavery?

Should there be a broad programme of reparations – not just financial compensation, but acknowledgement of the crimes committed and the lasting damage caused by slavery? Or would this just worsen soc…

Published on 4 years, 1 month ago

The Untold Story of African Europeans, with Olivette Otele

The history of Africans in Europe may seem recent – a result of migration in the 20th and 21st centuries – but in her new book, African Europeans, historian Olivette Otele tells a very diff…

Published on 4 years, 1 month ago

Empire of Pain: Sacklers, Opioids and the Sickening of America

How did one family become associated with an epidemic of drug addiction that has caused the death of almost half a million people?

In this episode, award-winning writer and author of Empire of Pain,&n…

Published on 4 years, 2 months ago