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Joey D'Urso
How Can Football Shirts Explain Money, Power and Politics? · Jul 2025

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Julian Assange

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Scott Shapiro
How To Break The Internet (in 5 Hacks) · Jul 2023

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Claire Dederer
Monsters and Masterpieces: Art in the Age of #MeToo · Nov 2023

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Douglas Coupland

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Kimberley Wilson
Food for Thought: How Nutrition Affects Our Minds · Aug 2023

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Tom Hiddleston

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Charlie Porter
Sotheby's Talks – Imaginary Conversations: An ERDEM Collection, with Lady Burlington · Jul 2024

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Connor Leahy

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Daniel Hannan
The Sunday Debate: We Were Right To Brexit · Jun 2022

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Hans-Ulrich Obrist

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Michael Craig-Martin

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Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
The Sunday Debate: Can Decolonisation Go Too Far? · Sep 2022

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Simon de Pury

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Thomas J Price
Faces of Britain – Missing Portraits and the Gaps in British History · Feb 2023

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David Petraeus
Iraq: 20 Years On | Is American Power in Decline? with General Petraeus · Apr 2023

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Jack Keane

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Quinn Slobodian
The Saudi Project, Part Two: The Dubai Model · Nov 2023

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Tobias Harris
BONUS EPISODE: Shinzo Abe's Life and Legacy · Aug 2020

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Aasmah Mir
Growing Up Between Two Cultures · Sep 2023

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Albert Read
How to Flex Your Imagination Muscle · Aug 2023

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Annabelle Hirsch
A History of Women in 101 Objects · Oct 2023

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Charles Moore

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Daniel Pick
Brainwashed: A New History of Thought Control · Jun 2023

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Dina Nayeri

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Don Paterson

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Ella Al-Shamahi
The Handshake: A Gripping History · 2 episodes

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Eran Segal

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Gill Hornby

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Kishore Mahbubani

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Owen Jones
Brexit Britain - Political Fallout · Jul 2016

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Philip Hensher

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Rebecca Boyle
Another Side of the Moon: How the Lunar Landscape Inspires Imagination · Jan 2024

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Roma Agrawal

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Torsten Bell

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Hayley Campbell
Checking Out: The Industry That Takes Care Of The Dead · Mar 2023

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Nigel Warburton
Debate: Free Will is an Illusion · Jan 2024

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Roger Cohen

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Adair Turner

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Agnès Callamard
How AI is Changing Warfare ? Live at Web Summit Lisbon 2024 · Jan 2025

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