Podcast Episodes

ACFM Trip 50: Fifty Shades of Acid

The gang present a milestone 50th Trip all about acid: a drug, a genre, a political concept, a mental tool and a thought corrosive. Looking back on s…

1 year, 1 month ago

Novara FM: Geoengineering is Coming Whether We Like it Or Not w/ Laurie Laybourn

We’ve entered a new climate reality. The pace of the energy transition has picked up – and so have the impacts of climate change.

But has there ever …

1 year, 1 month ago

Downstream: The British Military is Actively Involved in the Gaza Genocide w/ Matt Kennard

Investigative journalist Matt Kennard joins Aaron Bastani to discuss Britain’s complicity in the genocide of Palestinians, following a series revelat…

1 year, 2 months ago

Novara FM: Is This What Neofeudalism Looks Like? w/ Jodi Dean

After capitalism comes communism, according to Marxist doctrine. But in the meantime, what should we call our increasingly unequal system? Political …

1 year, 2 months ago

Downstream: We Have to Break Up With The USA w/ Angus Hanton

The ‘special relationship’ is central to how Britain conducts its foreign policy and perceives itself as a country. The argument goes: proximity to W…

1 year, 2 months ago

Novara FM: Rojava After Assad: Where Next for the Kurdish Struggle? w/ Elif Sarican

In the wake of Assad’s regime collapse and the call for the Kurdish Worker’s Party to disband, Elif Sarican talks to Richard Hames about how to make …

1 year, 2 months ago

Novara FM: The Absurdity of Rearmament w/ Khem Rogaly

The US is no longer supporting Ukraine, and in response, the UK and Europe are rearming. Germany is taking off its hallowed ‘debt brake’ to allow it,…

1 year, 2 months ago

Downstream: Why Don’t We Have Any Hope? w/ Jonathan White

When we talk about politics – whether it’s the climate, the economy or constitutional reform – the thing that’s at stake is an idea of ‘the future’. …

1 year, 2 months ago

ACFM Microdose: Making Art in a World on Fire w/ Amber Massie-Blomfield

What’s the point of the arts when the world is on fire? To follow the pipeline from creativity to activism and back again, Nadia Idle is joined by Am…

1 year, 2 months ago

Novara FM: Did Pandemics Make the Modern World?

Lockdown was one of the defining experiences of our lives, but it was far from unique in history. Contagion and confinement are inextricably intertwi…

1 year, 2 months ago