Podcast Episodes

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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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, 8 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, 8 months ago

Lucy Hughes-Hallett - The Brief & Brilliant Life of the Duke of Buckingham

George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham: never had King James I's court seen a man of such exquisite beauty. Capturing the heart of the King, becoming hi…

1 year, 8 months ago

Andrew Roberts - 150 Years of Winston Churchill

Few historical figures in the British political landscape have been as monumental as Winston Churchill. By the time of his death at the age of 90 in …

1 year, 8 months ago

Dr Guy Leschziner - A Neuroscientist's Guide to the Seven Deadly Sins

The seven deadly sins are the vices of humankind that define immorality, the roots of all evil in the world. But do these sins really represent moral…

1 year, 8 months ago

Rory Stewart Meets Saad Mohseni - The Fight for a Free Press in Kabul

In the Kabul offices of Moby Group, Afghanistan's largest media company, hundreds of men and women continue to bring programmes and news to the count…

1 year, 9 months ago