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Intelligence Squared
Intelligence Squared is the home of lively debate and deep-dive discussion. Follow Intelligence Squared wherever you get your podcasts and enjoy four regular episodes per week taking you to the heart of the issues that matter in the company of the world’s great minds. We’d love to hear your feedback...
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Life and Death in the KGB, with The Rest is Classified’s Gordon Corera (Part One)
As the main intelligence and security agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 to 1991, the KGB instilled fear across Russia and sought to sow discord abr...
How Will a New Era of Drugs Shape Our World? With Kojo Koram
From cannabis legalisation in the United States to the rise of psychedelics as wellness and productivity tools, the global politics of drugs is being...
The Age of Intelligence: Live in Partnership with IBM
In this episode, journalist Kamal Ahmed was joined by Jon Sopel, Dimple Ahluwalia and Matt Rowe to explore how cybersecurity has moved from a technica...
How Do Hormones Shape the Way We Feel, Think and Age? With Dr Saira Hameed
In this episode, science broadcaster Dr Güneş Taylor speaks with endocrinologist Dr Saira Hameed about her new book Signals: The Inside Story of Our H...
Why Does It Sometimes Pay to Be a Chicken? With Professor Michael Wooldridge
From Brexit negotiations and the Cuban Missile Crisis to elections, auctions and everyday decision-making, game theory can offer powerful insights int...
How does DNA Shape Our World? With Professor Turi King
Professor Turi King, Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath, is known for leading the genetic investigation identifying...
Do We Have The Right To Die? With Lady Hale and Rowan Williams (Part Two)
This debate was part of the ‘Think Again’ series in which two leading thinkers present alternative answers to a difficult societal question. The book...
Do We Have a Right To Die? With Lady Hale and Rowan Williams (Part One)
This debate was part of the ‘Think Again’ series in which two leading thinkers present alternative answers to a difficult societal question. The book...
An Evening with Douglas Stuart (Part Two)
Douglas Stuart is one of the most successful writers in Britain today. He is celebrated globally for his honest portrayals of human relationships and...
An Evening with Douglas Stuart (Part One)
Douglas Stuart is one of the most successful writers in Britain today. He is celebrated globally for his honest portrayals of human relationships and...
How To Win a Trade War, with Soumaya Keynes and Chad Bown
In this episode, journalist Hannah Lucinda Smith speaks with economists Soumaya Keynes and Chad Bown about our new era of global trade wars.
How To Kill A Language, with Sophia Smith Galer (Part Two)
What do we lose when a language dies?
Roughly 7,000 languages are spoken around the world today. Over half of them are expected to vanish...
How To Kill A Language, with Sophia Smith Galer (Part One)
What do we lose when a language dies?
Roughly 7,000 languages are spoken around the world today. Over half of them are expected to vanish...
The Secret Life of Our Organs and How They Keep us Healthy, with Dr Giulia Enders
How can changing the way we breathe lower stress and blood pressure? Why is touch so important for premature babies and ICU patients? And what can our...
Chasing Aliens, with Jon Ronson and Daniel Lavelle (Part Two)
Are we really alone in the universe?
The question of whether there is extraterrestrial life is one of our oldest questions. And few natio...
Chasing Aliens, with Jon Ronson and Daniel Lavelle (Part One)
Are we really alone in the universe?
The question of whether there is extraterrestrial life is one of our oldest questions. And few natio...
Has Far-Right Politics Entered The Mainstream in the UK? With Daniel Trilling
Has far-right thinking entered mainstream politics in the UK?
In 2025, Britain saw its largest-ever far-right rally, following a summer...
Love, Loss and Mourning Paul Auster, with Siri Hustvedt
What does it mean to mourn a shared life?
In this episode, essayist and novelist Siri Hustvedt speaks to book critic Mythili Rao about Gh...
What Would Happen If We Met Aliens? With Neil deGrasse Tyson
World famous astronomer Neil deGrasse Tyson joins Dr Radha Modgil to discuss his new book Take Me to Your Leader, exploring the science of alien life,...
London Falling: Patrick Radden Keefe on How Money, Power and Corruption Shape Our City, with Emily Maitlis (Part Two)
Patrick Radden Keefe is an award winning writer known for his ability to tell complex stories in ways that are compelling and revealing. Author of the...
London Falling: Patrick Radden Keefe on How Money, Power and Corruption Shape Our City, with Emily Maitlis (Part One)
Patrick Radden Keefe is an award winning writer known for his ability to tell complex stories in ways that are compelling and revealing. Author of the...
What Do We Ask Google, and What Does It Tell Us About Human Nature? With Simon Rogers
What do our Google searches reveal about who we really are?
For a new book, What We Ask Google, data analyst Simon Rogers explores the wo...
How Is Predictive AI Shaping Our World? With AI Philosopher Carissa Véliz
AI models now advise on everything from war, crop output, and marriages. Algorithms determine whether we can get a loan, a job, an apartment, or an or...
Weimar and Hitler: How did fascism take hold in Germany’s historic town? With Katja Hoyer
The town of Weimar looms large in German history. This ancient town nestled in the heart of the country was home to some of Europe's greatest thinkers...
An Evening with Kae Tempest (Part Two)
Kae Tempest is widely regarded as one of Britain’s greatest wordsmiths. In a career of ferocious creativity, he has received multiple prizes and criti...
An Evening with Kae Tempest (Part One)
Kae Tempest is widely regarded as one of Britain’s greatest wordsmiths. In a career of ferocious creativity, he has received multiple prizes and criti...
What Will Trigger the Next World War? With Peter Apps
How close are we to a new global conflict?
In this episode, journalist Hannah Lucinda Smith speaks with global defence commentator Peter...
Lena Dunham: Famesick, with Dolly Alderton (Part Two)
According to award-winning actor, writer, director and producer Lena Dunham, we’re now too invested in having a good relationship with our ex.
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Lena Dunham: Famesick, with Dolly Alderton (Part One)
According to award-winning actor, writer, director and producer Lena Dunham, we’re now too invested in having a good relationship with our ex.
...
The Age of Growth: Live in Partnership with IBM
In this episode, journalist Kamal Ahmed explores how innovation is the driving force behind meaningful growth, not simply through capital investment,...
Demis Hassabis and Sebastian Mallaby on The Quest for Artificial General Intelligence (Part Two)
Demis Hassabis – CEO and co-founder of Google DeepMind – is one of the world’s most visionary technologists. A child chess prodigy from North London,...
Demis Hassabis and Sebastian Mallaby on The Quest for Artificial General Intelligence (Part One)
Demis Hassabis – CEO and co-founder of Google DeepMind – is one of the world’s most visionary technologists. A child chess prodigy from North London,...
How Does Chemistry Shape our World? With Professor Dame Ijeoma Uchegbu
Chemistry is everywhere. From cosmetics and the clothes we wear to life-saving medicines and kitchen experiments, chemical processes are all around us...
Why Did Elite Cambridge Graduates Become Soviet Spies? Revisiting the Cambridge Five, with Antonia Senior
The Cambridge Five - Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Kim Philby, John Cairncross and Keeper of the Queen's Pictures Anthony Blunt - made up one of the mo...
How Will the Climate Crisis Reshape Global Politics? With Former Diplomat and Author, Arthur Snell
Our changing climate is accelerating conflict and migration, with the potential to drive political instability from the Sahel to Saudi Arabia to Siber...
Is There a Crisis of Overdiagnosis in Modern Medicine? With Dr Suzanne O’Sullivan
More people are being labelled with medical conditions than ever before. Diagnoses of autism, ADHD, allergies, and long COVID have skyrocketed - but a...
How Has Translation Transformed Shakespeare? With Daniel Hahn
What does it mean to translate some of the most recognisable and revered works in the English language? When the wordplay, poetry, and syntax of Shake...
Should You Be Talking To AI? with Jamie Bartlett
Hundreds of millions of people now talk to AI, such as ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini every day. They organise their finances and holidays, ask advice, see...
Who Are Renoir’s Mystery Girls? With Catherine Ostler
Could one of Renoir’s most iconic paintings conceal one of the most astonishing true stories of scandal and tragedy in Golden Age Paris?
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Stalin vs Trotsky: The Assassination That Changed History, with Josh Ireland
On August 20, 1940, in a quiet study in Mexico, one of the 20th century’s most consequential political exiles was assassinated with an ice pick. The k...