The EI Podcast
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EI Weekly Listen — Benedetta Berti on the past, present and future of the transatlantic alliance
15 mins; October 04, 2024
EI Talks... the attention dilemma
45 mins; October 03, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Fredrik Logevall on JFK's abiding legacy
17 mins; September 27, 2024
EI Portraits — Jessica Frazier on Akbar the Great, the ultimate Renaissance ruler
14 mins; September 26, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Kentaro Fujimoto on Japan's global future
21 mins; September 20, 2024
EI Talks... the making of Xi Jinping with Michael Sheridan
43 mins; September 19, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Daisy Dunn on the pursuit of greatness
18 mins; September 13, 2024
EI Portraits — Rob Johnson on Basil Liddell Hart, alchemist of war
15 mins; September 12, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Kori Schake on US grand strategy
14 mins; September 06, 2024
EI Talks... the search for a promised land with Rachel Cockerell
38 mins; September 05, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Sergey Radchenko on the past, present and future of Sino-Russian relations
22 mins; August 30, 2024
EI Portraits — Agnès Poirier on Anna de Noailles, bright star of the Belle Époque
12 mins; August 29, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Munira Mirza on how the British elite lost its way
19 mins; August 23, 2024
EI Talks... what the Romans found funny with Orlando Gibbs
50 mins; August 22, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Ali Ansari on the secret to Cyrus the Great’s success
18 mins; August 16, 2024
EI Portraits — Andrew Wilton on Amanda McKittrick Ros, the Florence Foster Jenkins of the romantic novel
13 mins; August 15, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Lucy Ward on the invention of Catherine the Great
18 mins; August 09, 2024
EI Talks... the atomic human with Neil D. Lawrence
54 mins; August 08, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Alexander Lee on why Machiavelli wrote The Prince
21 mins; August 02, 2024
EI Portraits — Rana Mitter on Tsiang Tingfu, pre-revolutionary China’s last bridge with the West
14 mins; August 01, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Francis J. Gavin on the terrible dilemmas of leadership in a thermonuclear world
16 mins; July 26, 2024
EI Talks... Paris in the Belle Époque with Marie Kawthar Daouda
24 mins; July 25, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — James Marriott on why human art matters in the age of AI
15 mins; July 19, 2024
EI Portraits — Lawrence Freedman on John McDonald, poker-playing popularizer of game theory
13 mins; July 19, 2024
EI Talks... bringing history to the public with Alice Loxton
31 mins; July 18, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Katja Hoyer on East Germany's battle for technology
19 mins; July 12, 2024
EI Talks... how advertising consumed the counter-culture with Ian Leslie
17 mins; July 11, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Gudrun Persson on Russia’s forever war against Ukraine
21 mins; July 05, 2024
EI Portraits — Catherine Ostler on Maria Antonia of Bavaria, Electress of many talents
12 mins; July 04, 2024
EI Talks... Ronald Reagan's grand strategy with William Inboden
32 mins; July 04, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Iskander Rehman on early modern information overload
22 mins; June 28, 2024
EI Talks... marketing Classical music with Richard Bratby
21 mins; June 27, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Julian Jackson on De Gaulle’s world in motion
17 mins; June 21, 2024
EI Talks... John Law and financial crises with Kwasi Kwarteng
28 mins; June 20, 2024
EI Portraits — Laura Freeman on Helen Sutherland, brave cultivator of the beautiful
12 mins; June 19, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Josef Joffe on Germany, the engine that couldn't
23 mins; June 14, 2024
EI Talks... women of the ancient world with Daisy Dunn
36 mins; June 12, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Maurizio Viroli on how we can learn from history
18 mins; June 07, 2024
EI Portraits — James Barr on George McGhee, American father to Britain’s Suez Crisis
13 mins; June 06, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Philip Bobbitt on the decay and renewal of the US constitutional order
34 mins; May 31, 2024
EI Talks... the history of democracy with Erica Benner
55 mins; May 30, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Lars Trägårdh on the origins of Swedish democracy
34 mins; May 24, 2024
EI Portraits — Dominic Sandbrook on Jesse Ventura, the wrestling governor who blazed a trail for Trump
14 mins; May 23, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Josef Joffe on the future of the European Union
17 mins; May 17, 2024
EI Talks... the age of upheaval
45 mins; May 17, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Simon Mayall on the history of the modern Middle East
22 mins; May 10, 2024
EI Portraits — James Hardie on Heinrich Biber, composer of rapture and ravings
10 mins; May 09, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Lawrence James on the invention of jingoism
33 mins; May 03, 2024
EI Talks... Caravaggio
36 mins; May 02, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Steven Grosby on the persistence of nationhood
22 mins; April 26, 2024
EI Portraits — Vanessa Harding on Nehemiah Wallington, Puritan chronicler who had far less fun than Pepys
13 mins; April 25, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Adrian Wooldridge on meritocracy
29 mins; April 19, 2024
EI Talks... the Entente Cordiale with T.G. Otte
36 mins; April 18, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Mariano Sigman on how language has shaped human consciousness
13 mins; April 12, 2024
EI Portraits — Peter Frankopan on Anna Komnene, the princess who chronicled Byzantium’s changing fortunes
13 mins; April 12, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Nathan Shachar on ideology in science
20 mins; April 05, 2024
EI Talks... terrorism with Suzanne Raine
37 mins; April 05, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Gregory Feifer on the mirage of Russian power
16 mins; March 29, 2024
EI Portraits — Gillian Clark on the many ways of seeing Saint Monica
14 mins; March 28, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Peter Heather on empire and development in first millennium Europe
36 mins; March 22, 2024
EI Talks... AI and education with Daisy Christodoulou
39 mins; March 21, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Barry Strauss on Ancient Greek geopolitics
27 mins; March 15, 2024
EI Portraits — Jenny McCartney on Jean Denis, Comte Lanjuinais, fearless opponent of The Terror
12 mins; March 14, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Josef Joffe on the end of 'the end of history'
28 mins; March 08, 2024
EI Talks... Werner Herzog with Geoff Andrew and Muriel Zagha
67 hours 17 mins; March 06, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Michael Broers on how Napoleon built a continent
34 mins; March 01, 2024
EI Portraits — Aspasia of Miletus: queen of the Athenian salon
16 mins; February 29, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Norman Stone on the 1860s
18 mins; February 23, 2024
Worldview — Ukraine, two years on
84 hours 36 mins; February 22, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — David Frum on how empire-states are changing the game
16 mins; February 16, 2024
EI Talks... Horace
42 mins; February 16, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Elisabeth Kendall on Jihadist poetry as propaganda
21 mins; February 09, 2024
EI Talks... the Edwardians: the calm before the storm
51 mins; February 09, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Malise Ruthven on the appeal of ISIS
33 mins; February 02, 2024
EI Talks... can Israel win the peace?
40 mins; February 02, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Andrew Preston on the invention of American national security
24 mins; January 26, 2024
EI Talks... the Soviet Union's bid for Africa
36 mins; January 26, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Charly Salonius-Pasternak on how Nordic and Baltic countries are preparing for war
23 mins; January 19, 2024
EI Talks... Studio Ghibli
37 mins; January 19, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Kimberly Kagan on the United States and the new way of war
19 mins; January 12, 2024
EI Talks... December, 1941
40 mins; January 12, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Pascal Vennesson on the rise of transnational war-making
33 mins; January 05, 2024
EI Weekly Listen — Rolf Ekéus on how to end wars
19 mins; December 22, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — Philip Bobbitt on the new global disorder
20 mins; December 15, 2023
EI Talks... 2023
54 mins; December 15, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — Yu Jie on the deep historical roots of China's global ambition
24 mins; December 08, 2023
EI Talks... a new world of intelligence
25 mins; December 07, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — Andrew Monaghan on how the past shapes Russian grand strategy
22 mins; December 01, 2023
EI Talks... the challenges of counter-insurgency
20 mins; November 30, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — Pär Stenbäck on religion and politics in the Middle East
18 mins; November 24, 2023
EI Talks... the promise and perils of declassifying intelligence
21 mins; November 24, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — Wolfgang Palaver on the complex relationship between violence and religion
48 mins; November 17, 2023
EI Talks... Recovering the women of Augustine's Confessions
55 mins; November 15, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — Gary Lachman on the sources of mystical experience
41 mins; November 10, 2023
EI Talks... The Beatles
43 mins; November 10, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — Benedetta Berti on the legacy of the Arab Awakening of 2010
29 mins; November 03, 2023
EI Talks... Tecumseh and the Shawnee Confederacy
35 mins; November 02, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — Armin W. Geertz on the pre-historical roots of religious belief
46 mins; October 27, 2023
EI Talks... a deep history of Gaza
46 mins; October 27, 2023
EI Weekly Listen — David Goodhart on bridging the value divide
22 mins; October 20, 2023