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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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Can Water Shape Our Future?
In today’s episode, the second in our series in partnership with WaterAid, journalist and author Coco Khan speaks to Helen Rumford, WaterAid’s Lead Po...
Julian Barnes in conversation with Ian McEwan (Part Two)
Julian Barnes and Ian McEwan are widely celebrated as two of the finest writers of their generation. Along with Salman Rushdie and Kazuo Ishiguro, the...
Julian Barnes in conversation with Ian McEwan (Part One)
Julian Barnes and Ian McEwan are widely celebrated as two of the finest writers of their generation. Along with Salman Rushdie and Kazuo Ishiguro, the...
Why Can’t We Stop Money Laundering? With Oliver Bullough
In an increasingly digital world, hardly anyone relies on cash. $100 bills are essentially absent from global commerce. So how come the US Federal Res...
Is the Arctic the World’s Next War Zone? With Kenneth R. Rosen
Why Is Everyone Suddenly Fighting Over the Arctic?
In this episode, Adam McCauley speaks to journalist and author Kenneth R. Rosen about...
Implementing and scaling AI agents in business
Many organisations are experimenting with AI and AI agents. But far fewer are seeing real, measurable impact. The challenge isn’t ambition, it’s readi...
Happy Mind, Happy Life, with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
Happiness is good for your health. That’s the argument of Dr Rangan Chatterjee, one of the most influential doctors in the UK and host of Europe’s big...
Can Britain Become an AI Superpower? The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook (Part Two)
A record £2.9 billion was invested in British AI companies last year as Prime Minister Keir Starmer vowed to make the UK an AI superpower. But accordi...
Can Britain Become an AI Superpower? The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook (Part One)
A record £2.9 billion was invested in British AI companies last year as Prime Minister Keir Starmer vowed to make the UK an AI superpower. But accordi...
How To Take the Pressure Off and Live Well, with Claudia Hammond (Part Two)
Do you feel as if there is often too much to do in too little time? We are all familiar with overwhelm – an unsettling sense that it is just impossibl...
How To Take the Pressure Off and Live Well, with Claudia Hammond (Part One)
Do you feel as if there is often too much to do in too little time? We are all familiar with overwhelm – an unsettling sense that it is just impossibl...
Is Greece Becoming the New Borderland Between East and West? With Sean Matthews
How does Greece’s Byzantine and Ottoman past shape its future?
In this episode, Helen Carr speaks to journalist and author Sean Matthews...
An Evening with Alan Davies (Part Two)
Alan Davies is one of the UK’s most-loved comedians best known for starring in the BBC series Jonathan Creek, and for his regular appearances on comed...
An Evening with Alan Davies (Part One)
Alan Davies is one of the UK’s most-loved comedians best known for starring in the BBC series Jonathan Creek, and for his regular appearances on comed...
How is Artificial Intelligence Transforming our Relationships? With James Muldoon
It is over ten years since the release of Spike Jonze’s film Her, in which a lonely man begins a relationship with a computer programme voiced by Scar...
Julia Ioffe and Clarissa Ward on Putin, Russia and the Women Fighting For A Better Future (Part Two)
Russian-born journalist Julia Ioffe is one of America’s most influential voices on Russia-US relations, reporting on Putin’s regime for over 15 years....
Julia Ioffe and Clarissa Ward on Putin, Russia and the Women Fighting For A Better Future (Part One)
Russian-born journalist Julia Ioffe is one of America’s most influential voices on Russia-US relations, reporting on Putin’s regime for over 15 years....
Jonathan Freedland on The Secret Rebels who Defied Hitler (Part Two)
Jonathan Freedland is a Guardian columnist, broadcaster, and author of the widely acclaimed book The Escape Artist which tells the remarkable story of...
Jonathan Freedland on The Secret Rebels who Defied Hitler (Part One)
Jonathan Freedland is a Guardian columnist, broadcaster, and author of the widely acclaimed book The Escape Artist which tells the remarkable story of...
The Remarkable True Story of The Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970’s, with Jason Burke (Part Two)
In the 1970s, a network of radical extremists terrorised the West with plane hijackings and hostage-takings. Among them were the beautiful young Leila...
The Remarkable True Story of The Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970’s, with Jason Burke (Part One)
In the 1970s, a network of radical extremists terrorised the West with plane hijackings and hostage-takings. Among them were the beautiful young Leila...
How Tech Platforms Threaten Our Future, With Former White House Advisor Tim Wu (Part Two)
Tim Wu, is one of America’s leading thinkers on technology, power, and the history of monopoly powers. A Columbia Law School professor and former spec...
How Tech Platforms Threaten Our Future, With Former White House Advisor Tim Wu (Part One)
Tim Wu, is one of America’s leading thinkers on technology, power, and the history of monopoly powers. A Columbia Law School professor and former spec...
How Philosophy Explains Our World, with Julian Baggini (Part Two)
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How Philosophy Explains Our World, with Julian Baggini (Part One)
What would Aristotle make of Keir Starmer? Would Plato be a Republican? And what can philosophy teach us about modern world?
In October...
Michael Rosen on Hope, Happiness and Finding Joy in the Small Things (Part Two)
Michael Rosen has known – and given – great joy in his life. And he has suffered immense sorrow.
Rosen is an author, poet and former chi...
Michael Rosen on Hope, Happiness and Finding Joy in the Small Things (Part One)
Michael Rosen has known – and given – great joy in his life. And he has suffered immense sorrow.
Rosen is an author, poet and former chi...
Women’s Prize-winner Rachel Clarke in conversation with Rob Delaney (Part Two)
Dr Rachel Clarke is a palliative care doctor and author, who became widely known for her writing on the challenges facing the NHS from the frontline o...
Women’s Prize-winner Rachel Clarke in conversation with Rob Delaney (Part One)
Dr Rachel Clarke is a palliative care doctor and author, who became widely known for her writing on the challenges facing the NHS from the frontline o...
The Specialist | The Anonymous Altarpiece: Decoding a Renaissance Enigma, with Alex Bell
This is an episode of The Specialist, your weekly dose of wonder. In The Specialist, explore the significance and journey of an extraordinary work thr...
Have We Finally Solved The Mystery of Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring? With Andrew Graham-Dixon
Johannes Vermeer is one of the greatest painters in history, yet the man himself remains an enigma. But have we finally solved the mystery of one of h...
Everything Starts With Water
In today’s episode, in partnership with WaterAid, journalist and author Coco Khan speaks to Amaka Godfrey, WaterAid’s Executive Director of Internatio...
Putin, The Soviet Union and The Rise of Russian Imperialism, with Mikhail Zygar (Part Two)
Mikhail Zygar is a renowned Russian dissident journalist living in exile in the USA. He was the founding editor-in-chief of independent news channel T...
Putin, The Soviet Union and The Rise of Russian Imperialism, with Mikhail Zygar (Part One)
Mikhail Zygar is a renowned Russian dissident journalist living in exile in the USA. He was the founding editor-in-chief of independent news channel T...
The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook with Jeremy Hunt
We’ve heard enough from the pessimists. Yes, these are hard times, but what investors, business owners and all of us need right now is not more despai...
Rory Stewart on Trump, Nationalism and The Value of Rural Life (Part Two)
Over the course of a decade in politics Rory Stewart saw how power really works and what forces drive our communities apart. He was a backbench MP, he...
Rory Stewart on Trump, Nationalism and The Value of Rural Life (Part One)
Over the course of a decade in politics Rory Stewart saw how power really works and what forces drive our communities apart. He was a backbench MP, he...
Is Alex Karp the Philosopher of Silicon Valley? With Michael Steinberger
Who does our data belong to?
In this episode, Carl Miller speaks to NYT magazine journalist and author Michael Steinberger about Alex Kar...
The Courage to Lead, with Sanna Marin, Former Prime Minister of Finland (Part Two)
Sanna Marin is a trailblazer in modern politics. When she became Prime Minister of Finland in 2019, she made history: at 34 she was the youngest ever...
The Courage to Lead, with Sanna Marin, Former Prime Minister of Finland (Part One)
Sanna Marin is a trailblazer in modern politics. When she became Prime Minister of Finland in 2019, she made history: at 34 she was the youngest ever...