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The unofficial Covid-19 inquiry

37 mins; February 09, 2021

The art of the ordinary, with Marc Stears

29 mins; February 02, 2021

Post-human landscapes, with Cal Flyn

36 mins; January 26, 2021

Will Joe Biden save America?

34 mins; January 19, 2021

George Saunders’s masterclass in the Russian short story

32 mins; January 12, 2021

Women, slavery and resistance

26 mins; January 05, 2021

Covid-19 then and now, with Phil Ball

32 mins; January 02, 2021

Who was the real Jesus?

30 mins; December 15, 2020

Saudi Arabia’s reform and repression

30 mins; December 08, 2020

Who killed soft Brexit?

32 mins; December 01, 2020

Douglas Stuart on writing Shuggie Bain

28 mins; November 24, 2020

Radical attention, with Julia Bell

23 mins; November 17, 2020

Lessons from the pandemic, with Fareed Zakaria

35 mins; November 10, 2020

US Election Special

23 mins; November 04, 2020

America in the world, with Stephen Wertheim

37 mins; November 01, 2020

Jacques Derrida's philosophy

36 mins; October 27, 2020

Owen Jones on the future of the left

45 mins; October 20, 2020

Hard Brexit now?

23 mins; October 13, 2020

Can elitism restore democracy?

32 mins; October 06, 2020

Robert Macfarlane’s Underland

29 mins; September 29, 2020

Writing the Booker Prize-shortlisted Burnt Sugar

25 mins; September 22, 2020

Celebrating London on film

19 mins; September 15, 2020

The Covid-19 economic crisis, with Adam Tooze

34 mins; September 09, 2020

I was Saddam’s prisoner

26 mins; August 25, 2020

The literature of Marvel Comics

29 mins; August 18, 2020

Sarah Churchwell and Kenan Malik on white identity

34 mins; August 11, 2020

How can nations atone for their sins?

34 mins; August 05, 2020

Andrew Adonis on Ernest Bevin

31 mins; July 29, 2020

South Korea in fiction

27 mins; July 21, 2020

The world’s top 50 thinkers 2020

30 mins; July 14, 2020

Covid-19 and race, with Angela Saini

28 mins; July 09, 2020

Working motherhood, with Emma Lundin

31 mins; June 30, 2020

Trumpocalypse, with David Frum

34 mins; June 23, 2020

The global crisis of sleep

17 mins; June 16, 2020

GE Moore: the philosopher who disappeared

23 mins; June 09, 2020

Shakespeare’s Plague

31 mins; June 02, 2020

Rutger Bregman’s Humankind

30 mins; May 26, 2020

George Eliot’s philosophy, with Clare Carlisle

36 mins; May 19, 2020

Rebuilding the world after Covid-19

47 mins; May 12, 2020

Slowing the world down, with Danny Dorling

37 mins; May 05, 2020

Behind the science of Covid-19

36 mins; April 28, 2020

The Nazi leader that vanished, with Philippe Sands

40 mins; April 21, 2020

Reconfiguring race with Thomas Chatterton Williams

34 mins; April 15, 2020

Colum McCann on writing the Israel-Palestine conflict

38 mins; April 08, 2020

Paul Krugman on zombie economics

35 mins; March 31, 2020

The political rivalry that shaped Middle East

33 mins; March 24, 2020

Britain’s language learning crisis explained

41 mins; March 17, 2020

Thomas Piketty on capitalism and inequality today

49 mins; March 09, 2020

Women warriors throughout history, with Julie Wheelwright

40 mins; March 04, 2020

Being a good opposition leader, with Steve Richards

28 mins; February 24, 2020

The AI delusion, with Philip Ball

30 mins; February 17, 2020

Legal special: Judicial review in Boris Johnson’s Britain, with the Better Human podcast

17 mins; February 10, 2020

Brown sauce, British food, and class politics, with Caroline O’Donoghue

32 mins; February 03, 2020

Grief in the age of the Internet

41 mins; January 27, 2020

Veganism in the era of climate change

34 mins; January 21, 2020

Labour leadership contest: what's going to happen?

42 mins; January 12, 2020

Liberalism and John Rawls, with Katrina Forrester

31 mins; December 18, 2019

2019 General Election special

21 mins; December 13, 2019

Meritocracy and the social mobility trap, with Daniel Markovits

34 mins; December 11, 2019

English philosophy and RG Collingwood, with Ray Monk

27 mins; December 04, 2019

Imperialism and the East India Company, with William Dalrymple

26 mins; November 28, 2019

The Home Office’s Hostile Environment, with Maya Goodfellow

28 mins; November 20, 2019

The impeachment inquiry against Trump, with James Zirin

24 mins; November 14, 2019

The Brexit election? A primer to the December vote

33 mins; November 07, 2019

Breaking the Harvey Weinstein story with Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor

30 mins; October 30, 2019

Susan Neiman on learning from the Germans

38 mins; October 24, 2019

Charles Moore on Margaret Thatcher

31 mins; October 16, 2019

Jonathan Haidt on political speech

35 mins; October 09, 2019

The Uninhabitable Earth, with David Wallace-Wells

42 mins; October 02, 2019

Catherine Haddon and Adam Wagner on the Supreme Court

28 mins; September 27, 2019

Susan Sontag’s life, with Lisa Appignanesi

26 mins; September 25, 2019

Robert Shiller’s narrative economics

29 mins; September 18, 2019

Jolyon Maugham QC on Brexit

23 mins; September 12, 2019

The Syrian war through the camera

29 mins; September 11, 2019

The Brexit fiasco past and present, with Peter Foster

31 mins; September 04, 2019

Simone de Beauvoir’s philosophy, with Kate Kirkpatrick

23 mins; August 30, 2019

Conservatism after Brexit, with Tim Montgomerie

31 mins; August 21, 2019

#94: Brexit—last chance to stop a no-deal? With David Anderson and Meg Russell

32 mins; August 14, 2019

The battle over bread, with Dan Hancox

24 mins; August 07, 2019

Tony Blair’s foreign policy, with Steve Bloomfield

28 mins; July 31, 2019

Confronting inequality, with David Blanchflower and Angus Deaton

37 mins; July 24, 2019

Demystifying the food industry, with Marion Nestle

25 mins; July 19, 2019

Mental health with Nathan Filer

27 mins; July 11, 2019

Behind the generation wars, with Jennie Bristow

29 mins; July 03, 2019

Understanding the ugly building, with Timothy Hyde

25 mins; June 26, 2019

Bringing the Green New Deal home, with Ed Miliband

26 mins; June 19, 2019

The art of scripture, with Karen Armstrong

33 mins; June 12, 2019

Hay Festival special, with Steven Pinker, Elif Shafak and the Roundhouse Poetry Collective

43 mins; June 05, 2019

Disability on film, with Tom Shakespeare

23 mins; May 15, 2019

Remembering the women of Westminster, with Rachel Reeves

42 mins; May 08, 2019

Forging a new political economy, with Paul Mason

43 mins; May 01, 2019

Living through digital afterlives, with Elaine Kasket

36 mins; April 24, 2019

What Labour's Tom Watson will do next, with Kevin Maguire

35 mins; April 17, 2019

The woman with a mission to help donor-conceived children find their biological fathers, with Stefanie Marsh

34 mins; April 10, 2019

The art of translation, with Miranda France

34 mins; April 04, 2019

The experiment that gave us the wrong idea about evil, with Stephen Reicher and Alex Haslam

41 mins; March 27, 2019

Saving the world with Mike Berners-Lee

37 mins; March 25, 2019

How to have better political arguments, with Adam Wagner

41 mins; February 06, 2019

Brexit and the constitutional question with Vernon Bogdanor

23 mins; January 30, 2019

Why are so many of us tracking our own lives? With Barbara Speed

26 mins; January 23, 2019

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