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Will Davies
Trump, Brexit and the Direction of 2021, with Will Davies and Matt Goodwin · 2 episodes

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Adam Rutherford
The Secret History in Our DNA: Adam Rutherford Meets David Olusoga (Part Two) · 2 episodes

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Andrea Wulf
Was George Forster the Enlightenment’s Lost Visionary? With Andrea Wulf · Jun 2026

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Arash Azizi
Arash Azizi on Iran's Turbulent Past and its Uncertain Future · Apr 2024

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Dan McCrum
The Inside Story of Europe’s Biggest Financial Scandal, with Dan McCrum · Sep 2022

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Eddie Glaude
James Baldwin: A Man For Our Times with Eddie Glaude · Oct 2023

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Elliot Ackerman
A Journey Into Our Geopolitical Future, with Elliot Ackerman · Apr 2024

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Eric Lonergan

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Gillian Tett
Gillian Tett on the Year Ahead · 3 episodes

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John Ganz
Did the Road to Trump Start in the 90’s? with John Ganz · Aug 2025

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Martin Wolf
Is it Game Over for Keir Starmer? Martin Wolf for The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook 2026 (Part Two) · 9 episodes

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Michael Steinberger
Is Alex Karp the Philosopher of Silicon Valley? With Michael Steinberger · Dec 2025

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Randall Munroe
Randall Munroe with Marcus du Sautoy on Making the Complicated Simple · Oct 2017

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Robert Kagan
The Volatile Future of US Politics, with Robert Kagan · Jun 2024

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Christiana Figueres
How Humanity Can Survive the Climate Crisis, with Christiana Figueres and Ritula Shah · Feb 2020

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Claudia Hammond
How To Take the Pressure Off and Live Well, with Claudia Hammond (Part Two) · 3 episodes

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Daniel Levitin
Music as Medicine: How to Harness its Therapeutic Power, with Daniel Levitin (Part Two) · 5 episodes

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Edward Bullmore
Does modern medicine need to drop the distinction between mental and physical health? With Professor Edward Bullmore · Nov 2025

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Erling Kagge
The Philosophy of Polar Exploration, with Erling Kagge and Razia Iqbal · Jan 2020

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Esi Edugyan
Essays at the Crossroads of Race, with Esi Edugyan · Feb 2022

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Jonathan Franzen
Stop Pretending We Can Save the Planet, with Jonathan Franzen · Aug 2021

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Karl Ove Knausgaard
Karl Ove Knausgaard: The Alchemist of the Ordinary · Nov 2015

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Leonard Mlodinow
Leonard Mlodinow and Rosamund Urwin on the Power of Elastic Thinking · Feb 2019

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Peter Schmidt
The Trillion Dollar Battle For Your Attention, with Peter Schmidt and D. Graham Burnett · Feb 2026

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Pragya Agarwal
Unravelling Unconscious Bias, with Dr Pragya Agarwal and Kavita Puri · Jun 2020

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Rana Ayyub
India at 75 – Secularism and the Rise of Hindu Nationalism, with Rana Ayyub · Nov 2022

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Rashid Khalidi
A Century of Conflict, with Rashid Khalidi and Jonathan Freedland · Mar 2020

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Rebecca Solnit
Reasons for Hope in Turbulent Times, with Rebecca Solnit · Jun 2026

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Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka on writing, politics and the power of a novel · Dec 2021

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Ferris Jabr
A Fresh Perspective on Life on the Blue Planet, with Ferris Jabr · Aug 2024

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Helen Oyeyemi
Novelist Helen Oyeyemi on Why the City of Prague has Main Character Energy · Feb 2024

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Jon Lee Anderson
The New Yorker’s Jon Lee Anderson on Afghanistan: An American Catastrophe (Part Two) · 3 episodes

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Karen Joy Fowler

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Katy Hessel
Katy Hessel on The Story of Art Without Men, with Pandora Sykes, Part Two · 2 episodes

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Markus Zusak
Markus Zusak: From The Book Thief to Three Wild Dogs · Jan 2025

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Richard Seymour
The Social Media Addiction-Machine, with Richard Seymour and Jamie Bartlett · Oct 2019

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Will Grant
Populista! The Rise of Latin America's Strongman, with Will Grant and Mark Mardell · Jan 2021

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Adrian Wooldridge
Is Meritocracy a Myth? With Adrian Wooldridge and Mark Mardell · Jun 2021

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Alicia Garza
Alicia Garza on Creating Black Lives Matter · Dec 2020

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