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TALKING POLITICS

Coronavirus! Climate! Brexit! Trump! Politics has never been more unpredictable, more alarming or more interesting: Talking Politics is the podcast that tries to make sense of it all. Every week David... Read more

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What's Happening in Italy Now?

What's Happening in Italy Now?

We catch up again with Lucia Rubinelli to discuss the latest developments in Italy. With anger against the EU on the ris... Read more

26 Apr 2020

27mins

Ranked #2

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What's Next for France and Italy?

What's Next for France and Italy?

As we wait for a Brexit deal or no deal, we discuss what the next year might hold for French and Italian politics. What ... Read more

10 Dec 2020

39mins

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War: What Is it Good For?

War: What Is it Good For?

We talk to the historian Margaret MacMillan about the changing character of war, from the ancient world to the twenty-fi... Read more

11 Nov 2020

38mins

Ranked #4

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Facts vs Opinions

Facts vs Opinions

David and Helen talk with Jonathan Shainin, Head of Opinion at the Guardian newspaper, about the challenges of political... Read more

4 Jun 2020

45mins

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Bread, Cement, Cactus

Bread, Cement, Cactus

David talks to the writer Annie Zaidi, winner of the Nine Dots Prize, about her remarkable memoir of life in India and t... Read more

24 May 2020

54mins

Ranked #6

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Uninhabitable Earth

Uninhabitable Earth

David talks to David Wallace-Wells about his bestselling - and terrifying - new book on the coming hellscape of climate ... Read more

24 Mar 2019

37mins

Ranked #7

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Jill Lepore

Jill Lepore

We speak with New Yorker writer and historian Jill Lepore about Trump, the Tea Party and the constitution. She tells us ... Read more

26 Jan 2017

51mins

Ranked #8

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S02-EP02 - Anne-Marie Slaughter talks about what is making Americans so fearful and the difference it would make to have a grandmother in the White House.

S02-EP02 - Anne-Marie Slaughter talks about what is making Americans so fearful and the difference it would make to have a grandmother in the White House.

This week we look at the US elections and speak to our panel and to voters in New York about what Hillary Clinton means ... Read more

28 Jan 2016

50mins

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Educated

Educated

David talks to Tara Westover about her incredible new book Educated, which tells the story of how a girl brought up by s... Read more

15 Feb 2018

41mins

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Thomas Piketty: Three Years On

Thomas Piketty: Three Years On

We revisit our interview with the economist Thomas Piketty recorded the week Emmanuel Macron won the French presidency a... Read more

27 Aug 2020

42mins

Ranked #11

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S01-EP17 The Election Podcast returns for a special edition, recorded in front of a live audience as part of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas 2015

S01-EP17 The Election Podcast returns for a special edition, recorded in front of a live audience as part of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas 2015

We ask special guest Charles Clarke - the former Labour Home Secretary - about political leadership, the Corbyn phenomen... Read more

27 Oct 2015

59mins

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Yuval Noah Harari

Yuval Noah Harari

Yuval Noah Harari talks about what technology means for the future of the human race and the future of politics. If Fac... Read more

22 Sep 2016

33mins

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Crashed

Crashed

Crashed - Helen and David talk to historian Adam Tooze about his epic new book Crashed: How A Decade of Financial Crises... Read more

30 Aug 2018

1hr 6mins

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S01-EP16 - FINALE: Remembering a remarkable election PLUS Lord Grabiner on the Human Rights Act, the future of Labour & the lessons of Tony Blair

S01-EP16 - FINALE: Remembering a remarkable election PLUS Lord Grabiner on the Human Rights Act, the future of Labour & the lessons of Tony Blair

In the final episode of the series, the team debate what we will remember about this election. We’ve had television deba... Read more

27 May 2015

58mins

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S01-EP03 - Martin Jacques on the global perspective, Britain’s decline, & China’s rise

S01-EP03 - Martin Jacques on the global perspective, Britain’s decline, & China’s rise

David asks Martin Jacques – journalist, academic, and author of the bestseller When China Rules the World – if this elec... Read more

25 Feb 2015

44mins

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Tech Election - Part 2

Tech Election - Part 2

We talk about the impact of different online platforms on the general election campaign, from Twitter and Facebook to Wh... Read more

28 Nov 2019

51mins

Ranked #17

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How Democracy Ends

How Democracy Ends

Worst-case scenarios for democracy - especially since Trump's victory - hark back to how democracy has failed in the pas... Read more

7 Dec 2017

54mins

Ranked #18

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Mary Beard

Mary Beard

Ahead of her LRB lecture at the British Museum, we talk to Mary Beard about women in power. Why are powerful women so o... Read more

22 Feb 2017

47mins

Ranked #19

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Thomas Piketty

Thomas Piketty

We're joined by internationally best-selling economist Thomas Piketty, author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century, to... Read more

6 May 2017

29mins

Ranked #20

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What is the Union?

What is the Union?

For this first in our series looking at the future of the UK, we talk to the historian Colin Kidd about the origins of t... Read more

4 Feb 2021

48mins

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