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The Missing Thread: A New History of the Ancient World, with Daisy Dunn
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Class, surrealist fiction and geographies of queerness, with Joelle Taylor
With both a T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry and Polari Prize under her belt, Joelle Taylor's distinctive voice is one for the ages. Her experiences of growing up in working-class Lancashire and finding community in the lesbian counterculture of 80s and 90s London are reflected in her six plays and f...
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Edward Wong on At The Edge of Empire: A Family's Reckoning with China
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How to Fix the Inequality of Wealth, with Liam Byrne
The Labour MP Liam Byrne is Chair of the House of Commons Business and Trade Select Committee. He also served on the front bench for both prime ministers Gordon Brown and Tony Blair. So he is well-positioned to be thinking about some of society's more pressing economic questions and these are the...
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Why Politics Matters, with Alastair Campbell and Manveen Rana
The political strategist turned hit podcast host of ‘The Rest is Politics’ returns to Intelligence Squared to discuss why politics matters in our everyday lives.
Campbell has just released two children’s books for different age groups Alastair Campbell Talks Politics and Why Politics Matters whic... -
The History of Ideas, with David Runciman and Sophie Scott-Brown
The spectres of political disillusionment and apathy have weighed heavily on this year of momentous elections. With the present feeling bleak, do we need to look to the past to reinvigorate our political imagination going forward? In this episode, Cambridge Professor and host of the Past Present ...
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Mishal Husain on Family, Empire and Why Partition Still Matters
On August 15 1947 Pakistan and India gained their independence and colonialism came to an end in the subcontinent. But it was not a time of celebration. A botched process of partition saw unprecedented sectarian violence, an estimated death of more than a million people and some 15 million more d...
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Rachel Cusk on Art, Womanhood and Redefining Fiction
This event is in partnership with Faber Members.
The writing of Rachel Cusk poses us constant challenges. Her critically acclaimed Outline trilogy and memoirs – A Life's Work and Aftermath – dared us to rethink the limits of character, identity and what it means to be a woman. Arguably, no writ...
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The Volatile Future of US Politics, with Robert Kagan and Edward Luce
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Native Nations: A Millennium in North America, by Kathleen DuVal
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Max Hastings on On the Secret Mission to Defeat Hitler
February 1942. RAF intelligence is baffled by a newly-identified radar network on the coast of Nazi-occupied Europe. Several radar installations are identified from aerial photographs but the purpose and the nature of the installations are not known. Some British scientists believe that these sta...
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The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook China Special, with Keyu Jin
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The Youth Mental Health Crisis with Jonathan Haidt
Bestselling author and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt has dedicated his career to speaking truth and wisdom in some of the most challenging spaces – communities polarised by politics and religion and university campuses mired in culture wars. Now he turns his attention to what he sees as a pe...
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The World in 2024 with Niall Ferguson: Crisis, Conflict and Consequences
‘The point of studying the past is to understand our present predicament’ – Niall Ferguson
There are few big thinkers better placed to explain global events than historian Niall Ferguson. He has not just a profound understanding of past crises, but also an exceptional ability to map out the long...
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Will Hutton & Alastair Campbell: How to Remake Britain (with guest Keir Starmer)
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Fiction, Trauma and Ordinary Human Failings, with Megan Nolan and Holly Williams
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How the British Empire Changed the World, with Sathnam Sanghera and Helen Carr
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Nuclear War: A Scenario, with Annie Jacobsen and Josh Glancy
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2054: A Trip to the Future, with Elliot Ackerman and Carl Miller
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Comedy in Dark Times, with Armando Iannucci and Helen Lewis
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Nostalgia: A History of A Dangerous Emotion, with Agnes Arnold-Forster
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A Curious History of the Gut, with Elsa Richardson
The wellness industry makes millions by promising to boost gut bacteria, and we all know the idiom of trusting our gut. Frequently referred to as the body’s second brain, this often misunderstood organ has a vast and varied history, and in her new book 'Rumbles: A Curious History of the Gut', Dr ...