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Ed Miliband - How to Fix Our World
Season 7 Episode 22
For the past four years, Ed Miliband has been discovering and interviewing brilliant people all around the world who are successfully tackling the bi…
4 years, 2 months ago
Dispatches from Afghanistan
Season 6 Episode 21
Bringing together leading Afghan politician and women’s rights advocate Fawzia Koofi, who was a member of the recent delegation negotiating peace wit…
4 years, 2 months ago
Matthew Green - A Journey Into the Shadowlands
Season 6 Episode 20
From Old Winchelsea to Skara Brae, Matthew Green transports us to Britain's shadowlands - the once thriving towns and cities that are now lost to tim…
4 years, 2 months ago
Julia Samuel - Every Family Has a Story
Season 6 Episode 19
Our family relationships fundamentally influence our health and happiness -- but we think too narrowly about the impact of our families on our lives.…
4 years, 2 months ago
Philip Oltermann - The Stasi Poetry Circle
Season 6 Episode 18
In 1982, East Germany's fearsome secret police - convinced that writers were embedding subversive messages in their work - decided to train their own…
4 years, 2 months ago
Simon Sebag Montefiore and Luke Harding - The History of the Ukraine-Russia Conflict
Season 6 Episode 17
The concept of a shared, single heritage and culture is central to Vladimir Putin’s justification for the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But what is th…
4 years, 2 months ago
Max Porter - Why Art Should Challenge Us
Season 6 Episode 16
Max Porter broke new ground with his highly-original debut Grief is a Thing With Feathers, and firmly established himself as a major literary talent …
4 years, 3 months ago
Alan Moore and B. Catling - The Power of Imagination
Few figures make such a seismic impact on their artistic medium that they transform its reputation from childish pulp entertainment to a vital and ex…
4 years, 3 months ago
Olia Hercules and Alissa Timoshkina - #CookForUkraine
Season 6 Episode 14
Food writers Olia Hercules and Alissa Timoshkina have been friends since university and together they have come together to launch #CookForUkraine - …
4 years, 3 months ago
Yanis Varoufakis Meets David Wengrow - The Dawn of Everything
Season 6 Episode 13
What if everything we thought we knew about the origins of human civilisation is a myth?
In their book The Dawn of Everything, the late David Graeber …
4 years, 3 months ago