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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, 4 months 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, 4 months 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, 5 months 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, 5 months 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, 5 months 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, 5 months 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, 5 months 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, 5 months ago
Neuroscientist Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston - How and Why We Should Abolish Death
Can scientists now preserve human minds beyond death - and if so, should they? Australian neuroscientist and science communicator Ariel Zeleznikow-Jo…
1 year, 6 months ago
Vanity Fair’s Lili Anolik - Joan Didion v. Eve Babitz
‘Could you write what you write if you weren’t so tiny, Joan?’ -Eve Babitz, in a letter to Joan Didion, 1972
One was the New York name on literary lip…
1 year, 6 months ago