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🎧 Has Tech Lost All Humanity? With Mark Little
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🎧 Kevin Fong on Why Your Plans Fail After Five Minutes (and How To Fix Them)
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🎧 Luke Harding and Alastair Campbell: Trump, Putin and the New Age of Conquest
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🎧 What Comes After the End of History? with Francis Fukuyama
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🎧 The New Silencing: Women Versus the Manosphere
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🎧 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 smartphones, vast networks have evolved to move the materials and products on which modern life depends. Yet much of this system remains invisible, only becoming clea...
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🎧 NYT’s Novel of the Century? Marlon James on The Disappearers
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🎧 The Secret History in Our DNA: Adam Rutherford Meets David Olusoga
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🎧 How George Michael Changed Music Forever, with Sathnam Sanghera
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🎧 Spielberg, Coppola & Lucas: The Remaking of Modern Cinema, With Paul Fischer
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🎧 What Everyone Gets Wrong About Iran, with Clarissa Ward and Lyse Doucet
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🎧 Can the US Survive Donald Trump? With Pod Save the US’ Ben Rhodes
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🎧 Is the Algorithm Destroying Taste? With Polyester Editor-In-Chief Ione Gamble
What we like has never been entirely our own. Taste has always been shaped by class, culture and the people around us. But in the age of algorithms and AI, our preferences are increasingly being predicted, curated and sold back to us.
In this episode, Mia Sorenti speaks with Ione Gamble, founding... -
🎧 Should We Stop Catastrophising About AI? With Eleanor Drage and Carl Miller
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🎧 How Has Forensic Science Transformed Criminal Justice, With Sue Black
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🎧 The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook, with Robert Peston
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🎧 How Sex Scenes in Film Can Reshape Real Intimacy, with Ita O’Brien
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🎧 Olivia Laing on Art, Solitude, and The Lonely City at 10
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🎧 How Did World War II Create Modern Asia? With Professor Hans van de Ven
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🎧 Is Our Justice System Failing Women? With Barrister Charlotte Proudman
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🎧 Andrew Ross Sorkin & Zanny Minton Beddoes on The Future of The Global Economy
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🎧 How Should We Prepare for the Unknown? With Statistician David Spiegelhalter
In a world of economic shocks, geopolitical crises and constant predictions about the future, how should we make decisions when certainty is impossible? And what can statistics teach us about living with risk, chance and the unknown?
In this episode, physicist and science broadcaster Helen Czer...
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🎧 Was George Forster the Enlightenment’s Lost Visionary? With Andrea Wulf
In this episode, historian and philosopher Sophie Scott Brown speaks with writer Andrea Wulf about her new book The Traveller: The Revolutionary Life of George Forster and his Search for Humanity. A naturalist, explorer and political radical, Forster travelled around the world with Captain Cook a...
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🎧 Reasons for Hope in Turbulent Times, with Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit is an award-winning American writer and activist whose incisive work explores feminism, democracy, climate change and social justice.
In this episode, she joins Mythili Rao to argue that, despite today's anxieties about democratic backsliding, technological disruption and environm...
