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Kim Darroch: Three ways the Iran war can end
31 mins; March 31, 2026
Sven Beckert: How capitalism made the world
38 mins; March 24, 2026
Has Reform peaked? Peter Kellner on politics
26 mins; March 17, 2026
Prospect Lives: “I enjoy the adverts more than the telly!”
36 mins; March 12, 2026
The Iran war: it’s not over
24 mins; March 10, 2026
David Aaronovitch on unaccountable power in America
39 mins; March 03, 2026
The battle for Gorton and Denton’s soul
38 mins; February 24, 2026
Ukraine: four years of tracking war crimes
34 mins; February 17, 2026
Starmer’s days of peril aren’t over
36 mins; February 10, 2026
Prospect Lives: Jesus was a sissy
37 mins; February 05, 2026
Peter Geoghegan on the Epstein files, power and impunity
28 mins; February 03, 2026
Does devolution help builders or blockers?
41 mins; February 03, 2026
The party is over: Is this the end for Labour and the Tories?
35 mins; January 27, 2026
After the protests: What does Iran’s future hold?
18 mins; January 20, 2026
Greenland, Venezuela and the new American interventionism
37 mins; January 13, 2026
Ed Miliband and Bill McKibben: The solar revolution is here—and it isn’t going anywhere
48 mins; January 07, 2026
Prospect Lives: Behind the clerical curtain on Christmas Eve
40 mins; December 23, 2025
‘Despair is a luxury’: A year of hope with Zizek, Mehdi Hasan, Robert Macfarlane and others
42 mins; December 16, 2025
K-pop and Sydney Sweeney’s jeans: Prospect’s cultural year in review
49 mins; December 09, 2025
The budget’s good bit: Terri White and Ruth Patrick on the two-child benefit limit
35 mins; December 02, 2025
Prospect Lives: Chatbot friends and corresponding with strangers
32 mins; November 27, 2025
Cory Doctorow: How the internet went to sh*t
51 mins; November 25, 2025
How Palantir infiltrated the state
30 mins; November 18, 2025
Serhii Plokhy: How close are we to nuclear war?
38 mins; November 11, 2025
Yanis Varoufakis on Mamdani, hope and resistance
48 mins; November 04, 2025
The Future of Aid
36 mins; November 03, 2025
Halloween special: AI and modern monsters
38 mins; October 28, 2025
‘Petty rules make no sense in an authoritarian takeover!’
52 mins; October 21, 2025
Trump, texting and taking a stand
37 mins; October 16, 2025
Robert Jenrick and the rise of British ethnonationalism
41 mins; October 14, 2025
Israeli genocide scholar: ‘My country is in denial’
32 mins; October 07, 2025
Does Labour have a ‘culture problem’? With Lucy Powell and Stella Creasy
52 mins; September 30, 2025
Cass Sunstein: How corporations are manipulating us
39 mins; September 23, 2025
What is antisemitic?
54 mins; September 16, 2025
Gratitude, goodbyes and glad rags
33 mins; September 11, 2025
Should Starmer embrace populism?
44 mins; September 09, 2025
Are we losing our civil liberties?
46 mins; September 03, 2025
Books, sex and a sacred summer
33 mins; August 08, 2025
Does the UK need ID cards?
32 mins; August 05, 2025
How privatisation led to the sewage scandal
36 mins; July 29, 2025
Yoga’s secret fascist history
41 mins; July 22, 2025
Laura Bates: AI is reinventing sexism
33 mins; July 15, 2025
What Blue Labour gets wrong
36 mins; July 08, 2025
What’s next for Elon Musk?
40 mins; July 01, 2025
James Bloodworth: Into the ‘manosphere’
43 mins; June 24, 2025
Orgasming with a client is intimacy overload
38 mins; June 19, 2025
The Israel-Iran war, with Arash Azizi
38 mins; June 17, 2025
Ethan Zuckerman: How to escape the internet hellscape
42 mins; June 10, 2025
The Trump-Musk feud
15 mins; June 06, 2025
Devi Sridhar: How to live to 100
46 mins; June 03, 2025
Carys Afoko: Is Labour losing the left?
46 mins; May 27, 2025
Starmer’s immigration gamble
42 mins; May 20, 2025
Prospect Lives: What if the teenagers are alright?
33 mins; May 15, 2025
Quinn Slobodian on the far right’s neoliberal roots
55 mins; May 13, 2025
Robert Macfarlane: Is a River Alive?
44 mins; May 06, 2025
Trump’s 100 days, with Ruth Ben-Ghiat
44 mins; April 29, 2025
Does Reform have a plan for power?
45 mins; April 22, 2025
Slavoj Žižek: ‘Elon Musk lives like a communist’
41 mins; April 15, 2025
Prospect Lives: Why I pray for Putin
29 mins; April 10, 2025
Philippe Sands on Trump and the age of impunity
48 mins; April 08, 2025
David Olusoga: History is under attack from Trump
39 mins; April 01, 2025
Killer dust: asbestos and corporate coverups
39 mins; March 25, 2025
Big oil and the real story of Kyoto
46 mins; March 18, 2025
Prospect Lives: My best sex work clients are married men
36 mins; March 13, 2025
Donald Trump and the new world order
37 mins; March 11, 2025
Keon West: Racism, science and alternative facts
39 mins; March 04, 2025
Prospect Lives: Stop telling me to ‘take it easy’ at 91!
32 mins; February 27, 2025
China: The greatest threat to human rights
43 mins; February 25, 2025
Bonus episode: Why Australia is better than Britain
47 mins; February 21, 2025
Sudan’s ‘war of opportunity’, with Yassmin Abdel-Magied
46 mins; February 18, 2025
Mehdi Hasan: ‘The media doesn’t want to hear certain people’
41 mins; February 11, 2025
Has Labour abandoned the left?
34 mins; February 04, 2025
Exclusive: Top Thinker interview with Eliane Brum
26 mins; January 28, 2025
Prospect Lives: My priest friends send me memes
34 mins; January 24, 2025
Trump’s inauguration, Musk’s salute and the special relationship
39 mins; January 21, 2025
Will Lords reform be Starmer’s legacy?
46 mins; January 14, 2025
Ukraine: what lies ahead?
32 mins; January 07, 2025
Oliver Burkeman: The power of negative thinking
51 mins; December 31, 2024
Media Confidential: 2024 in review: From Sanewashing to the Observer sale
44 mins; December 25, 2024
Predictions: the biggest stories of 2025
35 mins; December 17, 2024
Assad’s fall: What the west gets wrong
44 mins; December 10, 2024
Is democracy in crisis?
47 mins; December 03, 2024
Rachel Shabi: The truth about antisemitism
53 mins; November 26, 2024
Weightlifting, snogging and the power of nature
36 mins; November 22, 2024
Temporary accommodation: a national scandal
46 mins; November 19, 2024
The online gender wars
40 mins; November 12, 2024
Is assisted dying moral? Rowan Williams and Brenda Hale in conversation
58 mins; November 05, 2024
Q&A US election special, with Jill Abramson
38 mins; November 01, 2024
Witches, conspiracies and the US election
49 mins; October 29, 2024
Climate culture wars and COP
46 mins; October 22, 2024
Peter Geoghegan: Labour and “dark money”
51 mins; October 16, 2024
Catching flights and making moves
38 mins; October 10, 2024
Sayeeda Warsi on the Tories and why ‘Muslims don’t matter’
38 mins; October 08, 2024
Emily Lawford: Incels offline
30 mins; October 01, 2024
Jon Sopel on meeting Donald Trump—and the BBC’s “mess”
43 mins; September 24, 2024
Oliver Burkeman: The power of negative thinking
51 mins; September 17, 2024
Nathan Thrall: Palestinian life under occupation
42 mins; September 10, 2024
Serhii Plokhy: When the Russians occupied Chernobyl
44 mins; September 03, 2024
Paul Mason: Who are the new fascists?
45 mins; August 27, 2024
Joan Didion, Viv Richards, envy and imitation
41 mins; August 02, 2024
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