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A left-wing route to Remain with Zoe Williams
A left-wing route to Remain with Zoe Williams
This week Zoe Williams speaks to Tom Clark about the left-wing path to a new Europe. But what would that look like and w... Read more
25 Jul 2018
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32mins
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How to have better political arguments, with Adam Wagner
How to have better political arguments, with Adam Wagner
This week human rights barrister Adam Wagner talks tribal politics, twitter, and how to achieve a more civilised online ... Read more
6 Feb 2019
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41mins
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Brexonomics
Brexonomics
Britain’s business leaders are increasingly jittery about a “cliff edge” Brexit. But is leaving Europe necessarily a thr... Read more
14 Nov 2017
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32mins
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Is identity a mirage? With Kwame Anthony Appiah
Is identity a mirage? With Kwame Anthony Appiah
Kwame Anthony Appiah’s new book The Lies That Bind confronts the question of how social identities are formed. They are ... Read more
26 Sep 2018
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34mins
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Behind the generation wars, with Jennie Bristow
Behind the generation wars, with Jennie Bristow
Our headlines are full of stories about benighted millennials and over-pensioned baby boomers, but what’s behind this ne... Read more
3 Jul 2019
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29mins
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Why the world is getting better
Why the world is getting better
Prospect Editor Tom Clark sits down with Steven Pinker, the Harvard scientist, to discuss his new book on the Enlightenm... Read more
27 Feb 2018
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35mins
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Why are so many of us tracking our own lives? With Barbara Speed
Why are so many of us tracking our own lives? With Barbara Speed
This week, Prospect gets inside the craze for tracking everything from our steps to our alcohol intake with Barbara Spee... Read more
23 Jan 2019
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26mins
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Simone de Beauvoir’s philosophy, with Kate Kirkpatrick
Simone de Beauvoir’s philosophy, with Kate Kirkpatrick
Known as the philosopher who wrote The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir’s life has been the subject of much attention and ... Read more
30 Aug 2019
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23mins
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The experiment that gave us the wrong idea about evil, with Stephen Reicher and Alex Haslam
The experiment that gave us the wrong idea about evil, with Stephen Reicher and Alex Haslam
In 1961, two things happened that seemed to change our idea about evil forever: Hannah Arendt reported on the trial of A... Read more
27 Mar 2019
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41mins
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Robert Shiller’s narrative economics
Robert Shiller’s narrative economics
Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Shiller joins this week’s Prospect podcast to discuss what he calls “narrative econ... Read more
18 Sep 2019
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29mins
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Experts on trial
Experts on trial
Alison Wolf, Paul Ormerod and Adam Tooze join Prospect Editor Tom Clark to discuss whether it’s a good thing that so man... Read more
14 Jul 2017
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34mins
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Stephen Wall on the coming Brexit battles
Stephen Wall on the coming Brexit battles
Former ambassador to Europe Stephen Wall joins Prospect's Alex Dean to discuss Parliament's Brexit problems, including w... Read more
9 Jan 2019
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28mins
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Rock n’ Roll n’ Brexit with DJ Taylor
Rock n’ Roll n’ Brexit with DJ Taylor
Rock music is on the way down, music magazines aren’t what they used to be—but there are still an awful lot of sharp pen... Read more
27 Jun 2018
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24mins
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Hay Festival special, with Steven Pinker, Elif Shafak and the Roundhouse Poetry Collective
Hay Festival special, with Steven Pinker, Elif Shafak and the Roundhouse Poetry Collective
Prospect’s editors went up to Hay-on-Wye last week for the annual Hay Festival of Literature & Arts. We joined Steve... Read more
5 Jun 2019
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43mins
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Rethinking Israel-Palestine with Donald Macintyre
Rethinking Israel-Palestine with Donald Macintyre
This week we speak to Donald Macintyre, the author and journalist who was Jerusalem correspondent for the Independent. M... Read more
28 Aug 2018
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31mins
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The Uninhabitable Earth, with David Wallace-Wells
The Uninhabitable Earth, with David Wallace-Wells
In recent months, the climate change movement reach new heights with global strikes and large-scale marches. Journalist ... Read more
2 Oct 2019
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42mins
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The untold story of the financial crisis with Adam Tooze
The untold story of the financial crisis with Adam Tooze
This week it’s economic historian Adam Tooze, whose new book Crashed tells the story of the financial crisis. It is prom... Read more
29 Aug 2018
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28mins
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Crowns and Culture Wars
Crowns and Culture Wars
This month Tom Clark and guests chew over three simmering—or potential—culture wars.Immigration is often said to divide ... Read more
15 Aug 2017
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34mins
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Understanding the ugly building, with Timothy Hyde
Understanding the ugly building, with Timothy Hyde
From London’s many skyscrapers to the wars over brutalism, many of us know what it’s like to either complain about an un... Read more
26 Jun 2019
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25mins
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Game, set and match to the malcontents
Game, set and match to the malcontents
The malconents have, once again, wrought revenge on the know-it-alls, landing Britain with a hung parliament instead of ... Read more
20 Jun 2017
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32mins