Ranked #1
What's Happening in Italy Now?
What's Happening in Italy Now?
We catch up again with Lucia Rubinelli to discuss the latest developments in Italy. With anger against the EU on the ris... Read more
26 Apr 2020
•
27mins
Ranked #2
What's Next for France and Italy?
What's Next for France and Italy?
As we wait for a Brexit deal or no deal, we discuss what the next year might hold for French and Italian politics. What ... Read more
10 Dec 2020
•
39mins
Similar Podcasts
Ranked #3
War: What Is it Good For?
War: What Is it Good For?
We talk to the historian Margaret MacMillan about the changing character of war, from the ancient world to the twenty-fi... Read more
11 Nov 2020
•
38mins
Ranked #4
Facts vs Opinions
Facts vs Opinions
David and Helen talk with Jonathan Shainin, Head of Opinion at the Guardian newspaper, about the challenges of political... Read more
4 Jun 2020
•
45mins
Ranked #5
Bread, Cement, Cactus
Bread, Cement, Cactus
David talks to the writer Annie Zaidi, winner of the Nine Dots Prize, about her remarkable memoir of life in India and t... Read more
24 May 2020
•
54mins
Ranked #6
Uninhabitable Earth
Uninhabitable Earth
David talks to David Wallace-Wells about his bestselling - and terrifying - new book on the coming hellscape of climate ... Read more
24 Mar 2019
•
37mins
Ranked #7
Jill Lepore
Jill Lepore
We speak with New Yorker writer and historian Jill Lepore about Trump, the Tea Party and the constitution. She tells us ... Read more
26 Jan 2017
•
51mins
Ranked #8
S02-EP02 - Anne-Marie Slaughter talks about what is making Americans so fearful and the difference it would make to have a grandmother in the White House.
S02-EP02 - Anne-Marie Slaughter talks about what is making Americans so fearful and the difference it would make to have a grandmother in the White House.
This week we look at the US elections and speak to our panel and to voters in New York about what Hillary Clinton means ... Read more
28 Jan 2016
•
50mins
Ranked #9
Educated
Educated
David talks to Tara Westover about her incredible new book Educated, which tells the story of how a girl brought up by s... Read more
15 Feb 2018
•
41mins
Ranked #10
Thomas Piketty: Three Years On
Thomas Piketty: Three Years On
We revisit our interview with the economist Thomas Piketty recorded the week Emmanuel Macron won the French presidency a... Read more
27 Aug 2020
•
42mins
Ranked #11
S01-EP17 The Election Podcast returns for a special edition, recorded in front of a live audience as part of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas 2015
S01-EP17 The Election Podcast returns for a special edition, recorded in front of a live audience as part of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas 2015
We ask special guest Charles Clarke - the former Labour Home Secretary - about political leadership, the Corbyn phenomen... Read more
27 Oct 2015
•
59mins
Ranked #12
Yuval Noah Harari
Yuval Noah Harari
Yuval Noah Harari talks about what technology means for the future of the human race and the future of politics. If Fac... Read more
22 Sep 2016
•
33mins
Ranked #13
Crashed
Crashed
Crashed - Helen and David talk to historian Adam Tooze about his epic new book Crashed: How A Decade of Financial Crises... Read more
30 Aug 2018
•
1hr 6mins
Ranked #14
S01-EP16 - FINALE: Remembering a remarkable election PLUS Lord Grabiner on the Human Rights Act, the future of Labour & the lessons of Tony Blair
S01-EP16 - FINALE: Remembering a remarkable election PLUS Lord Grabiner on the Human Rights Act, the future of Labour & the lessons of Tony Blair
In the final episode of the series, the team debate what we will remember about this election. We’ve had television deba... Read more
27 May 2015
•
58mins
Ranked #15
S01-EP03 - Martin Jacques on the global perspective, Britain’s decline, & China’s rise
S01-EP03 - Martin Jacques on the global perspective, Britain’s decline, & China’s rise
David asks Martin Jacques – journalist, academic, and author of the bestseller When China Rules the World – if this elec... Read more
25 Feb 2015
•
44mins
Ranked #16
Tech Election - Part 2
Tech Election - Part 2
We talk about the impact of different online platforms on the general election campaign, from Twitter and Facebook to Wh... Read more
28 Nov 2019
•
51mins
Ranked #17
How Democracy Ends
How Democracy Ends
Worst-case scenarios for democracy - especially since Trump's victory - hark back to how democracy has failed in the pas... Read more
7 Dec 2017
•
54mins
Ranked #18
Mary Beard
Mary Beard
Ahead of her LRB lecture at the British Museum, we talk to Mary Beard about women in power. Why are powerful women so o... Read more
22 Feb 2017
•
47mins
Ranked #19
Thomas Piketty
Thomas Piketty
We're joined by internationally best-selling economist Thomas Piketty, author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century, to... Read more
6 May 2017
•
29mins
Ranked #20
What is the Union?
What is the Union?
For this first in our series looking at the future of the UK, we talk to the historian Colin Kidd about the origins of t... Read more
4 Feb 2021
•
48mins