Sebastian Mallaby on Demis Hassabis and the making of DeepMind
Demis Hassabis, the founder of Google's DeepMind, is an AI pioneer we know little about. He has largely stayed away from the public eye. In...
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Indicast is the longest running and most popular Indian podcast network. This is the mother feed of all the shows produced by Indicast including a current affairs new show, a business news s...
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20 of 471 episodesJennifer Shahade on how to think like a chess champion
How do elite chess players think? How many moves ahead do they plan? Jennifer Shahade should know. A Woman Grandmaster, two-time US Women's...
Johan Norberg on why civilisations rise, flourish and fall
Johan Norberg's latest book, Peak Human: What We Can Learn from the Rise and Fall of Golden Ages, is a sweeping account of seven civilizatio...
Jonathan Wilson on football, FIFA and 100 years of World Cup history
Why does the World Cup captivate billions of people every four years? How did a football tournament become a stage for politics, national id...
Dr Masud Husain on what the brain reveals about us
The human brain has fascinated and confounded us for centuries. Few dedicate their lives to studying and understanding its inner workings. F...
Tim Wigmore: The story of Test cricket
Tim Wigmore's "Test Cricket: A History" is a definitive account of the game's longest and the most demanding format. In this podcast Tim cov...
Samanth Subramanian on the undersea cables that run the world
How do undersea cables work and what is their significance in our daily lives? Samanth Subramanian, an award-winning journalist tells us abo...
Adam Weymouth: What wolves tell us about Europe
In this podcast Adam Weymouth, one of the most compelling young writers in the UK, talks about his latest book, "Lone Wolf: Walking the Line...
Kieran Mulvaney on the battle for power at the top of the world
How does it feel to stay in a cabin in Alaska? How does one keep their wits about oneself in places like the Arctic when the sun doesn't ris...
Philip Coggan on trade wars, globalisation and economic Common Sense
Cricket, globalisation, Trump's tariff tantrums, quirks of the English language, jargons and philosophy. This podcast covers some ground as...
Sir John Kay on why almost everything we are told about business is wrong
In this podcast Sir John Kay, one of the most original economic thinkers of our time, talks about what companies often get wrong. Drawing fr...
Edward Fishman on sanctions, chokepoints and the art of economic pressure
Turning jargons and complex spagetti-like subjects into simple (but not simplistic) language is an art that few authors can pull off. Edward...
Jason Burke on the extremists who hijacked the 1970s
Jason Burke has spent decades reporting from conflict zones around the world. In this episode he speaks about his latest book, "The Revoluti...
Patrick McGee on Apple in China
Patrick McGee, the Financial Times San Francisco correspondent, covers Apple and the U.S. technology industry. His book, Apple in China: The...
Marc Dunkelman on Why Nothing Works
Marc J. Dunkelman is a political scientist and author of Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress and How to Bring It Back. Drawing on example...
Danny Bate: Stories behind the English letters we use every day
Danny Bate joins us to talk about the history of the English alphabet, letter by letter. From the ancient Egyptian origins of A to the comeb...
Stephen Witt on the cult of Nvidia and its charismatic founder, Jensen Huang
Few people have had more access to Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s charismatic founder, than Stephen Witt. In his book "The Thinking Machine: Jensen...
Richard Overy on why humans go to war
Why do humans go to war? Is peace ever truly possible? In this podcast historian of the Second World War and expert on totalitarian regimes...
Charlie English on the CIA's quietest operation
Charlie English is the author of "The CIA Book Club: The Best Kept Secret of the Cold War". In this episode he talks about a little-known ch...
Beyond Silicon Valley: Ludwig Siegele on China’s quiet AI revolution
Ludwig Siegele, senior editor AI Initiatives at The Economist talks about how Chinese AI companies like DeepSeek and Alibaba are disrupting...