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The Dictators Who Want to Run the World

Posted Jul 2024

Yanis Varoufakis Meets Ash Sarkar – What Killed Capitalism?

Posted Jun 2024

How Capitalism Went Wrong

Posted June 2024

Åsne Seierstad – The Afghans

Posted May 2024

Seven Myths That Changed England – and How to Set Them Straight

Posted May 2024

Brian Klaas - Chance, Chaos and Why Everything We Do Matters

Posted February 2024

Ingrid Robeyns - The Case Against Extreme Wealth

Posted January 2024

How to Save Democracy

Posted January 2024

The Inequality of Wealth – Why It Matters and How to Fix It

Posted January 2024

Permacrisis – A Plan to Fix Our Fractured World

Posted September 2023

How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and Ai's

Posted September 2023

Everyday Utopia – Radical Experiments in the Good Life

Posted August 2023

James Comey – Live on Stage in London

Posted June 2023

How to Survive a Crisis

Posted May 2023

Alastair Campbell – Live on Stage in London

Posted May 2023

How Extreme Capitalists Are Destroying Democracy

Posted April 2023

Frankie Boyle Meets Bernie Sanders — It’s OK To Be Angry About Capitalism

Posted February 2023

Inside Stories of 21st Century Diplomacy

Posted February 2023

A User’s Guide to the Future -- From the Fate of the Galaxy to the Last Black Hole

Posted January 2023

Zac Goldsmith Meets Jeremy Rifkin

Posted December 2022

Nobel Peace Laureate Maria Ressa with Paul van Zyl

Posted November 2022

Chelsea Manning - Live on Stage in London

Posted November 2022

Now is the Time to Make Peace in Ukraine

Posted November 2022

Emergency State – The Freedoms We Lost in the Pandemic and How to Get Them Back

November 2022

Max Hastings – The Cuban Missile Crisis

Posted October 2022

David Dimbleby in conversation

Posted September 2022

Debate Like a Champion

Posted July 2022

Jeremy Hunt on the Future of the NHS

Posted July 2022

True Stories of Grifters, Killers and Crooks

Posted July 2022

Chris Patten on Hong Kong

The Hunt for the KGB’s Mole

Posted June 2022

The World in 2050

Posted June 2022

Michael Lewis Meets Sam Knight

Posted June 2022

Rory Stewart – The World in Our Time

Posted May 2022

Dispatches From Afghanistan

Posted April 2022

We Are Bellingcat

Posted April 2022

Ukraine and Russia – The History of the Conflict

Posted March 2022

Ed Miliband – Go Big

Posted March 2022

Is Putin a Psychopath? John Ronson and Brian Klaas

Posted March 2022

Does Power Corrupt?

Posted March 2022

Janine di Giovanni – A Life in War

Posted December 2021

The Entwined History of Spying and Show Business

Posted December 2021

Nathan Law on Freedom

Posted November 2021

Lessons From Women In Power

The Genetic Lottery

Posted November 2021

Deep Medicine and Social Injustice

Posted October 2021

Fatima Bhutto Meets Noam Chomsky

Posted October 2021

Bernard-Henri Lévy – Live On Stage In London

Posted October 2021

The Origins of America’s Political Fury

Posted September 2021

Robin DiAngelo and Beverly Daniel Tatum – Conversations About Race

Posted September 2021

The Prime Ministers We Never Had

Posted September 2021

Mary Ann Sieghart Meets Cherie Blair - The Authority Gap

Posted July 2021

Sean Penn Meets Jon Lee Anderson

Posted September 2021

Paul Mason – How To Stop Fascism

Posted August 2021

Afua Hirsch – Brit(ish)

Posted August 2021

How To Talk to a Science Denier: From climate change to COVID

Posted August 2021

The Twilight of Democracy

Posted July 2021

Hard Choices – What Britain Does Next

Posted July 2021

Gordon Brown – Seven Ways to Change the World

Posted July 2021

America In Crisis and Renewal

Posted July 2021

The Secret Rise of Private Spies

Posted June 2021

David Miliband Meets Ben Rhodes

Posted June 2021

The Sum of Us – What Racism Costs Everyone

Posted June 2021

Martin Rees and Ian Goldin – From Global Crisis to a Better World

Posted June 2021

Bill Clinton and James Patterson

Posted June 2021

The Plague Year

Posted June 2021

Niall Ferguson – The Politics of Catastrophe

Posted May 2021

Alastair Campbell on the Cameron Years

Posted May 2021

The Future of Global Power

Posted April 2021

Malcolm Gladwell – Bomber Mafia

Posted April 2021

James Comey – Saving Justice

Posted April 2021

Cass Sunstein – This Is Not Normal

Posted April 2021

Law in a Time of Crisis

Posted April 2021

The Revolutionary Act of Repairing Your Clothes

Posted March 2021

Why The Old Politics Is Useless

Posted March 2021

Paul Krugman Meets Richard Layard – Can We Be Happier?

Posted March 2021

Bari Weiss Meets David Baddiel - Jews Don’t Count

Posted March 2021

Chris Patten and Philip Stephens – Where Next For Britain?

Posted March 2021

Friendly Fire – Ami Ayalon In Conversation With Ian Black

Posted March 2021

How to Bring About Peace in a World of Conflict

Posted February 2021

Martin Wolf - The World in 2021

Posted February 2021

Anthropologist Wade Davis – The Unravelling of the American Empire

Posted January 2021

Mariana Mazzucato – A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism

Posted January 2021

Comedian David Baddiel on Our Present and Future

Posted December 2020

Deborah Frances-White – An Evening With The Guilty Feminist

Posted December 2020

Caitlin Moran – How to Become More Than a Woman: a manifesto for middle-age

Posted December 2020

Simon Schama – The World in 2021

Posted December 2020

I Am Somebody! | Jesse Jackson In Conversation with David Masciotra

Posted December 2020

The War Against the BBC

Posted November 2020

Artist and Activist Ai Weiwei – Human Rights in the Age of COVID-19

Posted November 2020

What’s Left in the Post-COVID World? Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis Meets Owen Jones

Posted November 2020

Defeating Aggression and Building Bridges - An Evening with Claudia Rankine

Posted October 2020

The Gambler - Tom Bower on Boris Johnson

Posted October 2020

How War Has Shaped Us

Posted October 2020

An Evening with P.J. O’Rourke

Posted October 2020

Jess Phillips MP - How to Speak Truth to Power

Posted October 2020

Uncovering The Real John F Kennedy

Posted September 2020

David Mitchell on Dishonesty in our Post-Truth Age

Posted September 2020

Mohammed bin Salman’s Ruthless Quest for Global Power

Posted September 2020

How to Stay Sane and Optimistic in our Age of Division

Posted September 2020

Ruby Wax - And Now For the Good News

Posted September 2020

The Untold Story of How One Data Company Invented the Future

Posted September 2020

WEIRD: How Psychology and Culture Co-evolved to Produce the Western Mind

Posted September 2020

Another Now - Yanis Varoufakis Imagines a Fairer and More Just World

Posted August 2020

NO BIO Homeland Elegies – A Novelist’s Reflections on the World After 9/11

Posted August 2020

American Diplomat Richard Haass - An Insider’s Guide to Our Interconnected World

Posted August 2020

Malcolm Turnbull Meets Peter Frankopan

Posted August 2020

Peter Frankopan and Parag Khanna - Orwell’s Prophecy and the New Global World Order

Posted August 2020

Thandie Newton Meets Gloria Steinem

Posted August 2020

Has China Won? Geopolitical Insights from the Former President of the UN Security Council

Posted August 2020

Why Civilizations Rise and Fall | With Pulitzer Prize Winning Polymath Jared Diamond

Posted August 2020

Women Don’t Owe You Pretty – A Powerful New Progressive Voice Confronts the Patriarchy

Posted August 2020

Beyond the Pandemic – FT columnist Martin Wolf on the World to Come

Posted August 2020

At Home With Alan Rusbridger – Insights From the Guardian’s former Editor-in-Chief

Posted August 2020

At Home With Rory Bremner – Satire, Politics and Power in the Post-Truth Age

Posted August 2020

A World Beyond Greed – How to End the Polarisation of Our Politics

Posted August 2020

How Not to Manage a Global Crisis – Why Did Politicians Fumble Over COVID-19?

Posted August 2020

Such a Fun Age – Kiley Reid on Her Debut Novel and the State of the Nation

Posted August 2020

Colombian Politician Ingrid Betancourt: How I Survived Six Years as a FARC Hostage

Posted August 2020

The Mathematics of Contagion | A Physicist’s Perspective on COVID-19

Posted August 2020

Deborah Lipstadt: Is It Antisemitic to Criticise Israel’s politics?

Posted August 2020

How To Fix the Rigged Systems of American Politics and Power: A true Insiders Look

Posted August 2020

Life Lessons from a Secret Service Agent: A powerful woman story of loyalty and betrayal

Posted July 2020

Humankind - a radical new history of our species

Posted July 2020

Madeleine Albright on life and politics

Posted July 2020

Ai Weiwei on human rights, propaganda and artistic expression.

Posted February 2020

Why Roger Scruton Wants Brexit: A Conservative Perspective

Posted March 2016

The Truth About British Politics

Posted November 2019

Jess Phillips Speaks Truth to Power

Posted August 2020

Minnie Driver on the #MeToo Movement

Posted November 2018

Identity Politics, Dignity and Resentment

Posted November 2018

Niall Ferguson and Will Self on Politics

Posted September 2018

The Reemergence of Fascism in Western Democracies

Posted November 2018

What is the White House like under a Trump Administration?

Posted September 2018

A new Silk Road for the 21st century

Posted January 2018

A Battle of Ideas: Slavoj Žižek Vs Will Self

Posted January 2017

The case for Universal Basic Income

Posted June 2019