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Tim Marshall: New Turkey's old politics
Episode 29
As a result of President Erdogan's embrace of two interlinked geopolitical concepts, 'Strategic Depth' and 'Blue Homeland', Turkey faces internationa…
4 years, 9 months ago
Graham Stewart on Thatcher's rescue from historical cliché
Episode 28
To argue that Margaret Thatcher attacked the post-war dream is to caricature, not illuminate, her importance to British history. Read by Leighton Pug…
4 years, 10 months ago
Mark Honigsbaum: Challenging the 'Great Reset' theory of pandemics
Episode 27
Thucydides saw plague as an opportunity to improve the health of society. But history shows that pandemics have a way of disrupting medical and socia…
4 years, 10 months ago
History Lessons – Niall Ferguson on the politics of catastrophe
Episode 26
Mattias Hessérus is in conversation with Niall Ferguson on how pandemics, and other disasters, shape human history.
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4 years, 10 months ago
Clive Aslet: The changing fate of the English country house
Episode 25
Amid the tumult of the 1970s, it appeared the traditional country house had gone into irreversible decline - but it was too early to write it off. Re…
4 years, 10 months ago
Worldview – Can meritocracy be rescued and repaired?
Episode 24
Iain Martin is joined by Adrian Wooldridge and Daniel Markovits to discuss the crisis of opportunity and self-reinforcing elites.
4 years, 10 months ago
Helen Thompson: Geopolitics of a pandemic
Episode 23
The Covid-19 crisis has accentuated all the geopolitical fault lines of the past decade. Read by Leighton Pugh.
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4 years, 10 months ago
History Lessons – Catherine Ostler on Elizabeth Chudleigh
Episode 22
Mattias Hessérus is in conversation with Catherine Ostler on the 18th-century Duchess who scandalised a nation.
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4 years, 11 months ago
Philip Bobbitt: A government of laws
Episode 21
The constitutional order is changing as citizens become alienated and demand more say. Americans must take care that their habits of law are not swep…
4 years, 11 months ago
Vanessa Harding: Remembering London's last Great Plague
Episode 20
London's response to its last plague epidemic involved close collaboration between crown, City and parish. Read by Leighton Pugh.
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4 years, 11 months ago