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Anna Sulan Masing - Chinese and Any Other Asian
'Chinese and Any Other Asian.' On official documents, a vast range of identities in the East and South East Asian (ESEA) population in the UK is redu…
1 year ago
Neal Stephenson – Dawn of the Atomic Age
History and geopolitical intrigue meet fiction under the masterful skill of #1 New York Times bestselling author Neal Stephenson. He joins us with a …
1 year ago
Activist, Actor and Baroness Lola Young - Defying The Odds
Lola Young has been an actress, an academic, an activist and campaigner, well known for her work on modern slavery and climate justice. But from the …
1 year, 1 month ago
Frankie Boyle Meets George Monbiot - The Fight Against Neoliberalism
Why are are the rich getting richer? Why is prosperity moving further and further out of reach for most people? An iconoclast unafraid to speak truth…
1 year, 1 month ago
Neuroscientist Adam Zeman - The New Science of Imagination
We live in the here and now much less than we tend to think. Imagination isn’t the exception in our daily lives; it’s our default setting. Far from b…
1 year, 1 month ago
Novelist and Activist Cory Doctorow - Fear and Loathing in Silicon Valley
Whether anticipating the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in his short story Radicalised, helping the world to wake up to the gri…
1 year, 1 month ago
Caitlin Moran Meets Alex James - Cocaine, Crash Diets and the Return of Blur
One winter’s night, Alex James received an unexpected call. Blur had been invited to play their biggest gig ever: Wembley Stadium. The only trouble w…
1 year, 1 month ago
Yanis Varoufakis Meets Slavoj Žižek
Erudite and comic, ironic and profound, philosopher Slavoj Žižek has travelled into territory where few of us dare to tread – and aged 75 he shows no…
1 year, 1 month ago
Cosmologist Roberto Trotta - How the Stars Shaped Civilisation
Both infinitely larger than ourselves and one of humanity's greatest commonalities, the night sky has shaped millennia of human history. Cosmologist …
1 year, 1 month ago
Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk – A Life in Writing
Orhan Pamuk has traveled far and wide, around the world, across the page, and in the landscapes of his mind. Now he joins Erica Wagner to illuminate …
1 year, 2 months ago