Radio and PodcastLive Radio & PodcastsOpening Radio and Podcast...
Radio and PodcastLive Radio & PodcastsFetching podcast shows and categories...
Radio and PodcastLive Radio & PodcastsFetching podcast episodes...
Hosts Zoe Williams (@zoesqwilliams) and Luke Cooper (@lukecooper100) are joined by guests with a left take on Brexit, Europe and more. Surveying the big transformative ideas of the age, inte...
Syria and the new world war Are we witnessing the beginnings of a new global war? With conflicts stretching from Afghanistan and Pakistan to...
This episode steps back from the daily news cycle to examine the structural roots of the current global energy crisis. Host Zoe Williams spe...
War and resistance in Ukraine Just over four years ago, as Putin launched Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, he expected the war to be...
The issue which has, more than any other, shown the depth of hypocrisy in the international rules based order is Palestine. In Gaza, the wor...
Islamophobia and antisemitism are unfortunately no longer fringe. Increasingly open, increasingly violent, they are reshaping what it means...
Fascism has never really gone away—but it has changed shape. From the street-level racism and open organising of the British National Party...
The first year of Donald Trump’s second term is over — with three long years still to go. Far from the myth of “Trump the peacemaker,” the p...
To much fanfare, Britain has announced yet another "strategic" defence review - the fifth that a UK Government has undertaken in the last 15...
In an age of war and permanent crisis, is it all too easy to forget the fundamentals? How do we look after each other, care for one another...
The drift of the global billionaire oligarchy to the radical right is quickening its pace. The Arc conference - billed as a "far right Davos...
With the return of Donald Trump in the White House - and his insistence that Kyiv and Moscow strike a peace deal "in 24 hours - huge uncerta...
Millions of people across the world have looked on at the American election result with a sense of dismay and fear. As the world tries to co...
After 14 years of frankly horrendous Conservative rule, millions celebrated Labour’s decisive victory. But since that fateful July day the n...
With white supremacist riots targeting Muslims and peoples of colour, this was a summer to forget for many of our communities in the UK. Bui...
A huge protest movement has taken to the streets in Georgia against the "foreign agent" law. This new legislation would require all organisa...
Liz Truss has managed to persuade herself of a very convenient (from her perspective) "truth": she wasn't a terrible prime minister with a f...
He's the city trader that went rogue. But he didn't lose the bank money. Quite on the contrary, he made them hundreds of millions from the f...
George Galloway has done it again, in a byelection as predictable as it was depressing. But surely this is isn't just about one individual....
Poland has dumped its far right government in a historic election victory for pro-democratic forces. After years of authoritarianism and ant...
It was a scientific discovery that changed the world forever. The nuclear bomb was largely a brainchild of left wing scientists who were det...
In the first podcast in our Ukraine and the World series, Luke Cooper talks to Masha Shynkarenko, a Research Associate with the Ukraine in E...
It managed to unite Donald Trump, Hilary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in opposition. So why has the UK signed up to the CPTPP (the 'Comprehens...
Ukrainians have shown extraordinary heroism and resilience in pushing back the imperialism Russian invasion. But are Ukraine's successes on...
Hosts Zoe Williams and Luke Cooper talk to Another Europe Is Possible old-hand, Michael Chessum, about his new book, This is only the beginn...
In our latest podcast, Luke Cooper talks to Lea Ypi about her extraordinary international bestseller, Free; Coming of Age at the End of Hist...
Another year, another crisis. As inflation skyrockets, we talk to leading economic thinker and former City trader Gary Stevenson about the a...
Asking whether "Brexit is racist" might be seen as the "is the pope a Catholic" question of our era. But calling out the racism of Brexit is...
As the Russian invasion moves into its second month, in this special edition of the Another Europe podcast we were joined by a panel of expe...
In the last twenty years Britons and Eastern Europeans have become closer and more intertwined than ever before. But it's often been a relat...
As his government lurches from scandal to scandal there is a new sense of hope that the Tories can be defeated. So what role can Another Eur...
Spain has one of the most successful vaccination programmes in the world. It's also set to launch the most ambitious national investment str...
As COP26 comes to a close, we investigate the global environmental and economic challenge facing humanity. In this podcast, Luke Cooper talk...
It wasn't so long ago that Germany's declining social democratic party was seen as a a classic example of 'Pasokification' in Europe, a term...
Fascism - the twentieth century's most barbaric ideology - is back and winning support on the streets and at the ballot boxes all over the w...
The crisis in Afghanistan has dominated the airwaves this summer - and rightly so. In this episode, Luke Cooper talks to Shukria Rezaei, an...
Can Englishness be anti-racist? After a remarkable football tournament, where the England football players made such a strong anti-racist st...
Does June 2016 seem like only yesterday? Or does it seem like an eternity? Fives years on from the referendum hosts Luke Cooper and Zoe Will...
The fight is on to replace Germany's centrist chancellor, Angela Merkel, who is stepping down after dominating the country's political scene...
The European Super League was dead almost on arrival. An uprising of fans, the football authorities and governments swiftly killed the proje...
In this podcast, hosts Zoe Williams and Luke Cooper talk to ecological economist, Tim Jackson, about his new book, Post-Growth; Life After C...
By now it should be clear. Coronavirus is a ‘strategic’, not episodic, crisis for human development in this century. It poses sweeping socia...
Britain's migrant workers are living through a huge moment of change. The country's immigration system has now fundamentally changed after t...
As the four nations of the United Kingdom struggle to reconcile themselves to life outside the EU are we witnessing the gradual unravelling...
The Coronavirus pandemic can be seen as a huge ecological warning: a sign that our footprint on planet Earth is becoming terribly unsustaina...
Will he do it? If Boris Johnson leads the UK to a no deal crash out from the transition period he'll surely be remembered as the most irresp...
After what seemed like a lifetime, the final results are in: America has said "no more" to Donald Trump. Collectively the world breathed a s...
We talk about authoritarianism a lot on this podcast and how it's resisted from below by grassroots movements. But we haven't yet broached w...
This definitely isn't normal is it? The world feels increasingly like a strange absurdist theatre we have all found our collective selves in...
As American democracy faces the most troubling moment in its modern history, hosts Zoe Williams and Luke Cooper talk to one of the world's l...
It is no exaggeration to say that dark money is now a major factor in our politics - and the lack of transparency threatens the democratic p...