Episodes

Episodes

• What Do the Dead Internet Theory and Russian Intelligence Operations Have in Common? With Carl Miller 2026-11-04
  The dead internet theory began as an obscure online conspiracy. Its proponents claimed the internet had been overrun by bots and automated content.…
• What Happens If Billionaires Control the Tools of War? With Sharon Weinberger 2026-11-02
  For decades, Silicon Valley liked to tell a story about itself: brilliant outsiders, working beyond government, moving faster than institutions ever…
• Is Politics Beyond Satire? Live with Armando Iannucci, Jan Ravens and Jess Phillips [Archive] 2026-11-01
  Has satire lost its power in this new world of fake news and ‘alternative facts’ - when our leaders lie so blatantly and frequently, and still…
• The Forgotten War: Inside the Democratic Republic of Congo 2026-10-30
  In 2005, journalist Anjan Sundaram travelled to the Democratic Republic of Congo to work as a stringer for the Associated Press. What followed was…
• Marina Hyde and Jesse Armstrong, Live in Brighton 2026-10-28
  Described by Phoebe Waller-Bridge as “the most lethal, vital, screamingly funny truth-teller of our time”, Marina Hyde has become one of Britain’s…
• Were Castles the Original Military-Industrial Complex? With Dan Jones 2026-10-26
  For more than 3,000 years, castles and fortifications have shaped the landscapes around them. They defended cities, controlled trade and provided…
• Has America Abandoned Ukraine? With Michael McFaul 2026-10-22
  Donald Trump’s growing accommodation of Vladimir Putin has raised a stark question: has the US abandoned Ukraine? Conor Boyle speaks to Michael…
• What Must Burnham Sacrifice To Make Britain Grow? With Michael Gove 2026-10-20
  Few figures in modern British politics have operated as close to the centre of power as Michael Gove. Over more than a decade in government, he has…
• Why Are People Having Fewer Children Than They Want? With Camilla Cavendish 2026-10-18
  In England and Wales, the total fertility rate fell to 1.39 children per woman in 2025. More than half of the world’s countries and areas are now…
• How One Family Remade Britain: Thomas and Oliver Cromwell, with Miranda Malins 2026-10-15
  Thomas Cromwell helped Henry VIII break with Rome, reshape government and establish the Church of England. A century later, his distant relative…
• Can Europe Defend Itself? Timothy Garton Ash on Europe's Future 2026-10-13
  Europe’s past is not past. The borders of vanished empires still surface in election results. The European Union and Nato face a world in which…
• Can Pigs Really Appreciate Bach? Katherine Rundell Live 2026-10-12
  Katherine Rundell has dazzled millions of readers globally with her writing on fantastical beasts. In her bestselling book The Golden Mole, she…
• What James Baldwin Can Teach Us About the World Today 2026-10-10
  On the 70th anniversary of the publication of Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin’s seminal novel about sexuality, race and myth in America, Booker…
• The Age of Change with Jeremy Hunt, in Partnership with IBM 2026-10-06
  In this episode, Kamal was joined by Jeremy Hunt, former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lawrence Tallon, Chief Executive of the Medicines and…
• Carlo Rovelli Live: Why Numbers Don’t Exist 2026-10-04
  Carlo Rovelli is an award-winning theoretical physicist and writer with a gift for making complex ideas feel real and accessible. Whether exploring…
• Anthony Scaramucci Tour Highlights 2026-10-03
  With the US midterm elections one month away, we revisit highlights from Anthony Scaramucci’s recent Intelligence Squared tour across the UK. The…
• Harlan Coben and Bill Nighy on the Art of the Plot Twist 2026-10-01
  The bestselling author of more than 36 novels, including Fool Me Once, Tell No One and the Myron Bolitar series, Coben is renowned for his ability…
• Introducing: Intelligence Squared Live 2026-10-01
  This podcast has always brought together two kinds of conversation. Original episodes recorded in the studio, and live events from the Intelligence…
• Britain’s War in Palestine, with Sebastian Faulks 2026-09-29
  Sebastian Faulks is one of the country’s best loved novelists, known for books such as Birdsong, Human Traces, Engleby and Charlotte Gray. His…
• The CIA vs MI6: Allies or Rivals? With David McCloskey 2026-09-28
  What if the CIA and MI6 began spying on each other? This is the question that David McCloskey, the former CIA analyst and co-host of the Rest is…
• Is There a Royal Sex Scandal Hidden in the Bayeux Tapestry? With David Musgrove 2026-09-26
  This September the Bayeux Tapestry went on display at the British Museum to huge crowds of eager patrons. This is the first time it has been…
• Anthony Scaramucci and Marina Hyde: What Comes After Trump? Live from Guildford 2026-09-25
  According to Anthony Scaramucci, former White House Communications Director, outspoken Trump critic and co-host of The Rest Is Politics: US,…
• What Lyse Doucet Has Learned from 40 Years Reporting From War Zones, Live 2026-09-23
  As the BBC’s Chief International Correspondent, Lyse Doucet has witnessed and reported on some of the most consequential events of our time. She has…
• Anthony Scaramucci and Tina Brown on How To Fix America, Live in London 2026-09-20
  According to Anthony Scaramucci, former White House Communications Director, outspoken Trump critic and co-host of The Rest Is Politics: US,…
• Why Your Plans Will Fail After Five Minutes, and How To Fix Them, with Kevin Fong 2026-09-19
  Kevin Fong has spent his working life in high-risk, high-performance teams. He flies as a Helicopter Emergency Medical Service doctor, has worked on…
• Has Tech Lost All Humanity? With Mark Little 2026-09-18
  The internet was once imagined as a place that would bring us closer together – a shared space for curiosity, creativity and connection. So how did…
• Luke Harding and Alastair Campbell: Trump, Putin and the New Age of Conquest (Part Two) 2026-09-15
  The post-war international order is under increasing strain. The principle that borders cannot be changed by force is being challenged –not only by…
• Luke Harding and Alastair Campbell: Trump, Putin and the New Age of Conquest (Part One) 2026-09-13
  The post-war international order is under increasing strain. The principle that borders cannot be changed by force is being challenged –not only by…
• Francis Fukuyama on the New World Order (Part Two) 2026-09-12
  Francis Fukuyama  is one of the most influential political thinkers of our time. His famous 1989 essay,  The End of History?  –…
• What Comes After the End of History? with Francis Fukuyama (Part One) 2026-09-10
  Francis Fukuyama  is one of the most influential political thinkers of our time. His famous 1989 essay,  The End of History?  –…
• The New Silencing: Women Versus the Manosphere (Part Two) 2026-09-08
  When the MeToo movement ignited in 2017, many believed it would be a turning point for women after which positive change would become inevitable.…
• The New Silencing: Women Versus the Manosphere (Part One) 2026-09-06
  When the MeToo movement ignited in 2017, many believed it would be a turning point for women after which positive change would become inevitable.…
• Why Did the Working Class Abandon the Left? With Nobel Economist Daron Acemoglu 2026-09-05
  Liberal democracy was once a radical force. It challenged monarchies, expanded political rights and, at its most successful, helped deliver rising…
• How Trade Shapes Our World, With Ed Conway 2026-09-03
  Trade has shaped human civilisation for thousands of years. From the copper used in Mesopotamian ploughs to the silicon inside our smartphones, vast…
• NYT’s Novel of the Century? Marlon James on The Disappearers 2026-09-01
  In 1988, eight men in Kingston, Jamaica, begin rehearsals for a play. Though strangers to one another, they share an inescapable truth: All of them…
• The Secret History in Our DNA: Adam Rutherford Meets David Olusoga (Part Two) 2026-08-30
  Adam Rutherford is a science broadcaster, and author of A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, which transformed the way we think about human…
• The Secret History in Our DNA: Adam Rutherford Meets David Olusoga (Part One) 2026-08-29
  Adam Rutherford is a science broadcaster, and author of A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, which transformed the way we think about human…
• Can Democracy Survive the Age of AI? With Jill Lepore 2026-08-28
  We live in the age of data. Over the past century, rapidly evolving technologies have transformed almost every aspect of our society, in ways that…
• What John Berger Saw That We Still Don’t, with Tom Overton 2026-08-25
  John Berger transformed the way generations thought about art, politics and the act of looking. Best known for Ways of Seeing, his work ranged…
• Is Tech Making Our Kids Less Capable? With Dr Jared Cooney Horvath 2026-08-23
  Schools were promised that laptops, educational apps and artificial intelligence would make learning more personalised, engaging and effective.…
• Is Ukraine’s Culture Worth Fighting For? With Charlotte Higgins 2026-08-22
  Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has placed not only lives and cities under attack, but also the country’s language, history and culture.…
• How George Michael Changed Music Forever, with Sathnam Sanghera (Part Two) 2026-08-20
  George Michael wrote Careless Whisper, one of the biggest pop songs of our age, in an hour in his childhood bedroom. Alongside his childhood best…
• How George Michael Changed Music Forever, with Sathnam Sanghera (Part One) 2026-08-18
  George Michael wrote Careless Whisper, one of the biggest pop songs of our age, in an hour in his childhood bedroom. Alongside his childhood best…
• Spielberg, Coppola and Lucas: The Remaking of Modern Cinema, With Paul Fischer 2026-08-16
  By the early 1980s Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas were the richest, best-known filmmakers in the world, with an empire of…
• Colm Tóibín on Stories of Exile (Part Two) 2026-08-15
  Colm Tóibín  is widely acclaimed for the emotional restraint and quiet power of his prose. His writing explores exile, abandonment, loss and…
• Colm Tóibín on Stories of Exile (Part One) 2026-08-13
  Colm Tóibín  is widely acclaimed for the emotional restraint and quiet power of his prose. His writing explores exile, abandonment, loss and…
• Uncovering the Epstein Story, with Emily Maitlis and Amy Wallace (Part Two) 2026-08-11
  The Jeffrey Epstein story has created shockwaves on both sides of the Atlantic. As new documents continue to emerge, and as journalists continue to…
• Uncovering the Epstein Story, with Emily Maitlis and Amy Wallace (Part One) 2026-08-09
  The Jeffrey Epstein story has created shockwaves on both sides of the Atlantic. As new documents continue to emerge, and as journalists continue to…
• Is the Algorithm Destroying Taste? With Polyester Editor-In-Chief Ione Gamble 2026-08-08
  What we like has never been entirely our own. Taste has always been shaped by class, culture and the people around us. But in the age of algorithms…
• How Do Our Sibling Relationships Shape Us? With Catherine Carr 2026-08-06
  For many of us, our relationships with our siblings are the longest of our lives. They shape our earliest experiences of love, rivalry, identity and…
• Can the US Survive Donald Trump? With Pod Save the US’ Ben Rhodes (Part Two) 2026-08-04
  Ben Rhodes served as one of Barack Obama’s closest foreign-policy aides, holding the role of Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic…
• Can the US Survive Donald Trump? With Pod Save the US’ Ben Rhodes (Part One) 2026-08-02
  Ben Rhodes  served as one of Barack Obama’s closest foreign-policy aides, holding the role of Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic…
• What Everyone Gets Wrong About Iran, with Clarissa Ward and Lyse Doucet (Part Two) 2026-08-01
  Since the United States and Israel launched coordinated strikes on Iran in late February, the world has changed dramatically. More than fourteen…
• What Everyone Gets Wrong About Iran, with Clarissa Ward and Lyse Doucet (Part One)(Part One) 2026-07-30
  Since the United States and Israel launched coordinated strikes on Iran in late February, the world has changed dramatically. More than fourteen…
• Hotels with History | The Adlon, Berlin 2026-07-28
  This is an episode of Hotels with History, produced by Intelligence Squared on behalf of Perowne International⁠. Learn more about your ad choices.…
• How Has Forensic Science Transformed Criminal Justice? With Sue Black 2026-07-26
  Forensic science has transformed the way crimes are investigated and justice is delivered. From fingerprints and DNA to new forms of anatomical…
• Should We Stop Catastrophising About AI? With Eleanor Drage and Carl Miller 2026-07-25
  We are deeply confused about artificial intelligence: what it is, who it serves and whether it is leading us towards utopia or catastrophe. But…
• How Sex Scenes in Film Can Reshape Real Intimacy, With Intimacy Coordinator Ita O’Brien 2026-07-20
  Intimacy coordinators have irreversibly transformed how we portray sex on screen, and they are not without their detractors. In the wake of MeToo,…
• Olivia Laing on Art, Solitude, and The Lonely City at 10 (Part Two) 2026-07-18
  Olivia Laing  is known as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary literature. Their work is renowned for its capacity to make…
• Olivia Laing on Art, Solitude, and The Lonely City at 10 (Part One) 2026-07-16
  Olivia Laing  is known as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary literature. Their work is renowned for its capacity to make…
• How Did World War II Create Modern Asia? With Professor Hans van de Ven 2026-07-14
  Is our history of World War II missing its most important chapter? For many in the West, the story of the Second World War is told through D-Day,…
• An Evening with Maggie O’Farrell: Land (Part Two) 2026-07-12
  Maggie O’Farrell  is the award-winning author of nine novels, including  Hamnet , a breathtaking fictional retelling of the death of…
• An Evening with Maggie O’Farrell: Land (Part One) 2026-07-11
  Maggie O’Farrell  is the award-winning author of nine novels, including  Hamnet , a breathtaking fictional retelling of the death of…
• Can We Make the Internet Safe for Children? With Baroness Beeban Kidron 2026-07-10
  Filmmaker and activist Baroness Beeban Kidron has been warning of the digital dangers facing young people for over a decade, and has played a…
• Hotels with History | Copacabana Palace, Rio De Janeiro 2026-07-08
  This is an episode of Hotels with History, produced by Intelligence Squared on behalf of Perowne International⁠. Picture being on a sweep of white…
• Andrew Ross Sorkin and Zanny Minton Beddoes on Markets, Crashes and The Future of The Global Economy (Part Two) 2026-07-07
  Andrew Ross Sorkin began his career at the forefront of Wall Street news, reporting extensively for The New York Times on the financial crash of…
• Andrew Ross Sorkin and Zanny Minton Beddoes on Markets, Crashes and The Future of The Global Economy (Part One) 2026-07-05
  Andrew Ross Sorkin began his career at the forefront of Wall Street news, reporting extensively for The New York Times on the financial crash of…
• Is Our Justice System Failing Women? With Barrister Charlotte Proudman 2026-07-04
  Recent high-profile legal disputes with Johnny Depp and Amber Heard and Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni have renewed public debate about gender,…
• How Should We Prepare for the Unknown? With Statistician David Spiegelhalter 2026-07-02
  In a world of economic shocks, geopolitical crises and constant predictions about the future, how should we make decisions when certainty is…
• Was George Forster the Enlightenment’s Lost Visionary? With Andrea Wulf 2026-06-30
  In this episode, historian and philosopher Sophie Scott Brown speaks with writer Andrea Wulf about her new book The Traveller: The Revolutionary…
• Reasons for Hope in Turbulent Times, with Rebecca Solnit 2026-06-28
  Rebecca Solnit is an award-winning American writer and activist whose incisive work explores feminism, democracy, climate change and social justice.…
• How Did the Americas Transform Renaissance England? With Lauren Working 2026-06-23
  The English Renaissance is often remembered as an age of Shakespeare, exploration and cultural flourishing. But it was also shaped by encounters…
• Who Really Blew Up the Nord Stream Pipeline? With Bojan Pancevski 2026-06-21
  In September 2022, a series of underwater explosions tore through the Nord Stream pipelines beneath the Baltic Sea. The destruction of this $20…
• What Can Europe's Borderlands Tell Us About Its Future? With Hannah Lucinda Smith 2026-06-20
  Long before Putin's invasion of Ukraine, conflict was simmering on Europe's borders. In overlooked territories in eastern Europe, the eastern…
• Hotels with History | Waldorf Astoria, New York 2026-06-18
  This is an episode of Hotels with History, produced by Intelligence Squared on behalf of Perowne International⁠. We’re in midtown Manhattan to kick…
• Life and Death in the KGB, with The Rest is Classified’s Gordon Corera (Part Two) 2026-06-16
  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…
• Life and Death in the KGB, with The Rest is Classified’s Gordon Corera (Part One) 2026-06-14
  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…
• How Will a New Era of Drugs Shape Our World? With Kojo Koram 2026-06-13
  From cannabis legalisation in the United States to the rise of psychedelics as wellness and productivity tools, the global politics of drugs is…
• The Age of Intelligence: Live in Partnership with IBM 2026-06-11
  In this episode, journalist Kamal Ahmed was joined by Jon Sopel, Dimple Ahluwalia and Matt Rowe to explore how cybersecurity has moved from a…
• How Do Hormones Shape the Way We Feel, Think and Age? With Dr Saira Hameed 2026-06-09
  In this episode, science broadcaster Dr Güneş Taylor speaks with endocrinologist Dr Saira Hameed about her new book Signals: The Inside Story of Our…