Luke Harding and Alastair Campbell: Trump, Putin and the New Age of Conquest (Part One)
The post-war international order is under increasing strain. The principle that borders cannot be changed by force is being challenged –not...
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Francis Fukuyama on the New World Order (Part Two)
Francis Fukuyama is one of the most influential political thinkers of our time. His famous 1989 essay, The End of History? – written as the...
What Comes After the End of History? with Francis Fukuyama (Part One)
Francis Fukuyama is one of the most influential political thinkers of our time. His famous 1989 essay, The End of History? – written as the...
The New Silencing: Women Versus the Manosphere (Part Two)
When the MeToo movement ignited in 2017, many believed it would be a turning point for women after which positive change would become inevit...
The New Silencing: Women Versus the Manosphere (Part One)
When the MeToo movement ignited in 2017, many believed it would be a turning point for women after which positive change would become inevit...
Why Did the Working Class Abandon the Left? With Nobel Economist Daron Acemoglu
Liberal democracy was once a radical force. It challenged monarchies, expanded political rights and, at its most successful, helped deliver...
How Trade Shapes Our World, With Ed Conway
Trade has shaped human civilisation for thousands of years. From the copper used in Mesopotamian ploughs to the silicon inside our smartphon...
NYT’s Novel of the Century? Marlon James on The Disappearers
In 1988, eight men in Kingston, Jamaica, begin rehearsals for a play. Though strangers to one another, they share an inescapable truth: All...
The Secret History in Our DNA: Adam Rutherford Meets David Olusoga (Part Two)
Adam Rutherford is a science broadcaster, and author of A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, which transformed the way we think about...
The Secret History in Our DNA: Adam Rutherford Meets David Olusoga (Part One)
Adam Rutherford is a science broadcaster, and author of A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, which transformed the way we think about...
Can Democracy Survive the Age of AI? With Jill Lepore
We live in the age of data. Over the past century, rapidly evolving technologies have transformed almost every aspect of our society, in way...
What John Berger Saw That We Still Don’t, with Tom Overton
John Berger transformed the way generations thought about art, politics and the act of looking. Best known for Ways of Seeing, his work rang...
Is Tech Making Our Kids Less Capable? With Dr Jared Cooney Horvath
Schools were promised that laptops, educational apps and artificial intelligence would make learning more personalised, engaging and effecti...
Is Ukraine’s Culture Worth Fighting For? With Charlotte Higgins
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has placed not only lives and cities under attack, but also the country’s language, history and cult...
How George Michael Changed Music Forever, with Sathnam Sanghera (Part Two)
George Michael wrote Careless Whisper, one of the biggest pop songs of our age, in an hour in his childhood bedroom. Alongside his childhood...
How George Michael Changed Music Forever, with Sathnam Sanghera (Part One)
George Michael wrote Careless Whisper, one of the biggest pop songs of our age, in an hour in his childhood bedroom. Alongside his childhood...
Spielberg, Coppola and Lucas: The Remaking of Modern Cinema, With Paul Fischer
By the early 1980s Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas were the richest, best-known filmmakers in the world, with an emp...
Colm Tóibín on Stories of Exile (Part Two)
Colm Tóibín is widely acclaimed for the emotional restraint and quiet power of his prose. His writing explores exile, abandonment, loss and...
Colm Tóibín on Stories of Exile (Part One)
Colm Tóibín is widely acclaimed for the emotional restraint and quiet power of his prose. His writing explores exile, abandonment, loss and...
Uncovering the Epstein Story, with Emily Maitlis and Amy Wallace (Part Two)
The Jeffrey Epstein story has created shockwaves on both sides of the Atlantic. As new documents continue to emerge, and as journalists cont...