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How Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin fought Hitler – and each other
EI’s Paul Lay joins historian Tim Bouverie to discuss ‘Allies at War’, his gripping new book on how Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin’s uneasy allianc…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
What happened to the politician’s moustache?
Writer Luka Ivan Jukic laments the all-but-total disappearance of facial hair from politics. Read by Leighton Pugh.
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11 months, 3 weeks ago
The strange death of squalor
Journalist and author Jenny McCartney celebrates the magic of squalor, and explores how generations of artists have seen the sublime in slime. Read b…
1 year ago
Why Finns joined the fight
Geopolitical analyst Charly Salonius-Pasternak examines Finland's long journey to full membership of the Western alliance, and explores how the Nordi…
1 year ago
The West’s lust for liberty
The late Christopher Coker, Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics for almost 40 years, explains why, although the lo…
1 year ago
Christianity and the creation of England
In this episode of The EI Podcast, the historian Bijan Omrani is joined by EI's Paul Lay to explore the indelible mark Christianity has left on Engla…
1 year ago
How the liberation of France shaped the modern world
Agnès Poirier, journalist and broadcaster, examines how the liberation of France in 1944 opened the way for Paris to become a laboratory of ideas. R…
1 year, 1 month ago
China vs the WTO: The Inside Story
EI's Alastair Benn and Paul Lay are joined by Michael Sheridan, author of two books on China and a foreign correspondent for 40 years, to discuss Chi…
1 year, 1 month ago
Madame Bovary and the problem of desire
Marie Daouda, lecturer in French language and literature at the University of Oxford, shows how the pursuit of apparently 'real' desires comes at th…
1 year, 1 month ago
The German key to European liberty
Brendan Simms, founder and Director of the Centre for Geopolitics at the University of Cambridge, illustrates why contemporary Germany struggles to …
1 year, 1 month ago