Podcast Episodes

Framing: A Guide to Thinking in the 21st Century

An industrialist looks at a rain forest and sees trees to cut down and sell, while an environmentalist sees the ‘lungs of the planet’. To one person, complying with a mandate to wear a face mask in p…

Published on 4 years, 6 months ago

Ed Miliband on How To Build a Better World

Is the pandemic a wake-up call to build a better world? Ed Miliband, politician and host of the award-winning Reasons to Be Cheerful podcast, thinks so.

And in June 2021 he came to Intelligence Square…

Published on 4 years, 6 months ago

Salman Rushdie on Truth, Language and the Power of Stories

Salman Rushdie, internationally bestselling author and ‘Best of the Booker’ winner, is a storyteller of the highest order, illuminating truths about our society and culture through his dazzling …

Published on 4 years, 6 months ago

Carlo Rovelli and Philip Pullman on the Science and Stories That Transform Our World

Carlo Rovelli is the internationally bestselling theoretical physicist whose many fans include Benedict Cumberbatch, Antony Gormley, Neil Gaiman and Lily Cole. In May 2021 he came to Intell…

Published on 4 years, 6 months ago

Music in the Age of COVID-19, with David Gray and Rosamund Urwin

In this week's episode acclaimed singer/songwriter David Gray speaks to Rosamund Urwin about how music and the arts have fared throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. David had ori…

Published on 4 years, 6 months ago

The New Space Race, with Nicholas Schmidle and Helen Czerski

When Richard Branson founded Virgin Galactic in 2004, the goal was simple: to offer civilian space travel by the end of the decade. Seventeen years, a dozen delays and one catastrophic rocket crash l…

Published on 4 years, 6 months ago

Common Ground: How to Democratise Nature

Spending a mere two hours a week outside is scientifically proven to lower blood pressure, enhance the immune system and reduce anxiety. Yet, for many communities, nature and the countryside are inac…

Published on 4 years, 7 months ago

Choices for a Better Now, with Ece Temelkuran and Matthew Taylor

Many of us felt it before but 2020 was the year it became undeniable: the status quo is not working. Political discontent is widespread – and for good reason. So what can we do now to change cou…

Published on 4 years, 7 months ago

The Hidden Language of Trees with Suzanne Simard

Trees have memories. They have wisdom. They cooperate in communities of immense complexity, communicating underground through a huge web of fungi, at the centre of which lie the Mother Trees: the mys…

Published on 4 years, 7 months ago

Niall Ferguson on the Politics of Catastrophe

Why was the response of the UK and US to the coronavirus pandemic so bungled? How can we be better prepared when the next disaster strikes? These are the questions that historian Niall Ferguson discu…

Published on 4 years, 7 months ago