Podcast Episodes

Downstream: The Right Is Stirring up Anti-Muslim Hate – and It’s Getting Worse w/ Myriam François

In the summer of 2024, hotels sheltering Muslim asylum seekers across Britain were attacked by violent mobs. A year later, as the summer of 2025 drew…

6 months, 4 weeks ago

Downstream: How Brexit Paved The Way For Farage’s Bid for Downing Street w/ Tom McTague

It’s almost 10 years since Britain voted to leave the EU, and we’re still dealing with the consequences. In his new book, Between The Waves, Politico…

7 months ago

Downstream: The Political Possibilities of the Ancient World w/ Josephine Quinn

What were the ancient alternatives to democracy? Did people in the Bronze Age forget how to write – or deliberately stop? And what’s the use in study…

7 months, 1 week ago

Downstream: Are We Living Through the End of an Empire? w/ Lea Ypi

What can the collapse of the Ottoman Empire teach us about the danger of the current discourse around migration?

‘Re-migration’ is not a new concept …

7 months, 2 weeks ago

Downstream: Infinite Growth Will Lead to Collapse w/ Jason Hickel

Our politicians don’t agree on much, but one thing most of them agree on is that growth is universally good. Grow the pie, they assure us, and there …

7 months, 3 weeks ago

Downstream: China Is Building While the West Crumbles w/ Dan Wang

Dan Wang is a technology analyst and author whose life experience, spent partly in North America, partly in China, sets him up as an authoritative ob…

8 months ago

Downstream: A Reckoning Is Coming For The Establishment Over Gaza w/ Owen Jones

Owen Jones is a journalist and the author of ‘Chavs’, ‘The Establishment’, and ‘This Land’. He has spent the last 21 months relentlessly reporting an…

8 months, 1 week ago

Downstream: The Ancient Indian History Our Schools Don’t Teach w/ William Dalrymple

Ash Sarkar sat down at EartH Hackney with acclaimed historian and author William Dalrymple.

Picking up where they left off last time they spoke on Do…

8 months, 2 weeks ago

Downstream: The Real Reason Millennials Are Screwed w/ Eliza Filby

Dr Eliza Filby is a historian and author of the bestselling book Inheritocracy: It’s Time to Talk About the Bank of Mum and Dad. In conversation with…

8 months, 3 weeks ago

Downstream: Ash Sarkar meets Gerry Adams

This interview would once have been illegal to broadcast in the UK. For many, Gerry Adams is a peacemaker, but for others he remains inseparable from…

8 months, 4 weeks ago