Is Politics Beyond Satire? Live with Armando Iannucci, Jan Ravens and Jess Phillips [Archive]
Has satire lost its power in this new world of fake news and ‘alternative facts’ - when our leaders lie so blatantly and frequently, and sti...
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The Forgotten War: Inside the Democratic Republic of Congo
In 2005, journalist Anjan Sundaram travelled to the Democratic Republic of Congo to work as a stringer for the Associated Press. What follow...
Marina Hyde and Jesse Armstrong, Live in Brighton
Described by Phoebe Waller-Bridge as “the most lethal, vital, screamingly funny truth-teller of our time”, Marina Hyde has become one of Bri...
Were Castles the Original Military-Industrial Complex? With Dan Jones
For more than 3,000 years, castles and fortifications have shaped the landscapes around them. They defended cities, controlled trade and pro...
Archive: Is Mark Zuckerberg Damaging Society?
With the release of Aaron Sorkin's new film The Social Reckoning, Mark Zuckerberg and the dark side of Facebook are back in the spotlight.In...
Has America Abandoned Ukraine? With Michael McFaul
Donald Trump’s growing accommodation of Vladimir Putin has raised a stark question: has the US abandoned Ukraine? Conor Boyle speaks to Mich...
What Must Burnham Sacrifice To Make Britain Grow? With Michael Gove
Few figures in modern British politics have operated as close to the centre of power as Michael Gove. Over more than a decade in government,...
Why Are People Having Fewer Children Than They Want? With Camilla Cavendish
In England and Wales, the total fertility rate fell to 1.39 children per woman in 2025. More than half of the world’s countries and areas ar...
Archive: Can the Arts Drive Social Change? With Idris Elba, Kwame Kwei-Armah and Yassmin Abdel-Magied
In the summer of 2020, as Black Lives Matter protests swept the world, the arts and creative industries faced urgent questions about racism,...
How One Family Remade Britain: Thomas and Oliver Cromwell, with Miranda Malins
Thomas Cromwell helped Henry VIII break with Rome, reshape government and establish the Church of England. A century later, his distant rela...
Can Europe Defend Itself? Timothy Garton Ash on Europe's Future
Europe’s past is not past. The borders of vanished empires still surface in election results. The European Union and Nato face a world in wh...
Can Pigs Really Appreciate Bach? Katherine Rundell Live
Katherine Rundell has dazzled millions of readers globally with her writing on fantastical beasts. In her bestselling book The Golden Mole,...
Archive: What Are the Chances We Exist at All? With Brian Cox and Alice Roberts
Who are we? Why are we here? Are we alone in the universe? How did we become the creatures that we are? How might we further evolve? These a...
What James Baldwin Can Teach Us About the World Today
On the 70th anniversary of the publication of Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin’s seminal novel about sexuality, race and myth in America, Book...
The Age of Change with Jeremy Hunt, in Partnership with IBM
In this episode, Kamal was joined by Jeremy Hunt, former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lawrence Tallon, Chief Executive of the Medicines and...
Carlo Rovelli Live: Why Numbers Don’t Exist
Carlo Rovelli is an award-winning theoretical physicist and writer with a gift for making complex ideas feel real and accessible. Whether ex...
Anthony Scaramucci Tour Highlights
With the US midterm elections one month away, we revisit highlights from Anthony Scaramucci’s recent Intelligence Squared tour across the UK...
Harlan Coben and Bill Nighy on the Art of the Plot Twist
The bestselling author of more than 36 novels, including Fool Me Once, Tell No One and the Myron Bolitar series, Coben is renowned for his a...
Introducing: Intelligence Squared Live
This podcast has always brought together two kinds of conversation. Original episodes recorded in the studio, and live events from the Intel...
Britain’s War in Palestine, with Sebastian Faulks
Sebastian Faulks is one of the country’s best loved novelists, known for books such as Birdsong, Human Traces, Engleby and Charlotte Gray. H...