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Episode Date
Avraham Burg: Israel’s tyrannical leadership
Apr 23, 2024
Broke Birmingham and the council crisis
Apr 17, 2024
Margot Wallström: How Russia is wreaking environmental destruction in Ukraine
Apr 09, 2024
The Americans defending democracy from Trump
Apr 02, 2024
The gospel according to GB News
Mar 27, 2024
Prospect Lives: Decisions, challenges and fresh starts
Mar 21, 2024
California’s billionaire city
Mar 20, 2024
Should we give homeless people cash?
Mar 13, 2024
Which generation has it harder? With Sheila Hancock and Alice Garnett
Mar 06, 2024
Kim Darroch: Is the UK ready for Trump 2.0?
Feb 28, 2024
Timothy Garton Ash: Ukraine, Navalny and the survival of the west
Feb 21, 2024
Going cash-free: a world without money
Feb 14, 2024
Prospect Lives: Looking forward and reflecting back
Feb 08, 2024
What motivates Hezbollah, Iran and the Houthis?
Feb 07, 2024
Argylle: Taylor Swift's first novel? Or not...
Jan 31, 2024
Daron Acemoglu: The Top Thinker of 2024
Jan 24, 2024
Peter Kellner: How accurate are political polls?
Jan 17, 2024
The Rule of Law: Why Britain should be ashamed of the Rwanda Bill
Jan 16, 2024
Avi Shlaim: Why I'm advocating for a one state solution
Jan 10, 2024
How China is preparing for battle in Taiwan
Jan 03, 2024
Prospect Team: What will surprise us in 2024?
Dec 27, 2023
Have we fallen out of love with Love Actually?
Dec 20, 2023
Standing up to dictators: Eliot Higgins, Bellingcat and the online sleuths
Dec 13, 2023
Samuel Moyn: America's undoing
Dec 06, 2023
Simon Sharpe: What climate diplomacy gets wrong
Nov 29, 2023
Who is Javier Milei, Argentina's new president?
Nov 22, 2023
Priyamvada Gopal: Are the humanities in crisis?
Nov 15, 2023
Peter Ricketts: How to negotiate a ceasefire in Gaza
Nov 08, 2023
The Israel-Gaza war: How Middle Eastern states respond
Nov 01, 2023
Taster episode : Is there a media bias against Israel?
Oct 27, 2023
Is Britain run by an out of touch elite?
Oct 25, 2023
Israel, Gaza and the laws of war
Oct 20, 2023
Biodiversity on the brink?
Oct 18, 2023
Sam Freedman: Reflections from the Labour party conference
Oct 11, 2023
Andrew Bailey: Please, don’t call me Mr Governor!
Oct 04, 2023
Lizzie Porter: Syria's forgotten
Sep 27, 2023
Barry Eichengreen: Is the end of globalisation near?
Sep 20, 2023
Matthew d’Ancona: How centrism became a bad joke
Sep 12, 2023
Elena Gordon: My son, Putin’s prisoner
Sep 05, 2023
Paul Wallace: The wrong kind of inflation
Aug 29, 2023
Jane O'Grady: Were the Greek philosophers self-help gurus?
Aug 22, 2023
David Loyn: Why the west is failing Afghanistan
Aug 16, 2023
Can AI think?
Aug 08, 2023
Bill Keller: The Americanisation of British prisons
Aug 01, 2023
Matthew d'Ancona: Oppenheimer and nuclear culture
Jul 26, 2023
Kate Raworth and Sam Fankhauser: Is green growth the future?
Jul 19, 2023
Stella Assange: Why my husband Julian must be freed
Jul 12, 2023
The Rule of Law: How will AI affect justice?
Jul 07, 2023
The first wave of Covid literature
Jul 04, 2023
What's going on with Russell Brand?
Jun 28, 2023
Ukraine's war of the words
Jun 21, 2023
David Aaronovitch: The future of Conservatism
Jun 13, 2023
Are Britain's seaside towns a refuge or a trap?
Jun 07, 2023
Sarah Churchwell: Which books are shaping our world?
May 31, 2023
The Prince vs The Press: How Harry is taking on the phone hackers
May 23, 2023
Crude justice: The Nigerians taking Shell to court
May 17, 2023
Nina Menkes: How Hollywood taught us to objectify women
May 09, 2023
Alastair Campbell: Can we fix our politics?
May 04, 2023
Danny Dorling and Deborah Hargreaves: Have we reached peak inequality?
Apr 26, 2023
Pat Cullen and Rachel Sylvester: Will the NHS survive the strikes?
Apr 17, 2023
Ann Pettifor and Nick Macpherson: Was austerity necessary?
Apr 11, 2023
Bad News: How Murdoch and Fox are wrecking US democracy
Apr 05, 2023
The Rule of law: Is Braverman's bill illegal?
Mar 30, 2023
Quinn Slobodian: Crack-up capitalism
Mar 28, 2023
Matthew Desmond and Tom Clark: Why we all profit from poverty
Mar 22, 2023
Alfie Stirling and Lara Spirit: The budget breakdown
Mar 15, 2023
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad: Iraq, 20 years on
Mar 09, 2023
How to solve the immigration crisis
Mar 01, 2023
Tania Branigan and Isabel Hilton: How China rewrites history
Feb 22, 2023
Jonathan Powell and Vladimir Milov: Can Ukraine negotiate with Russia?
Feb 16, 2023
Greg Cook and Peter Kellner: Why the next election is Labour's to lose
Feb 08, 2023
Rosie Holt and Josh Berry: The state of British satire
Feb 02, 2023
Could a policy tweak stop people dying in poverty?
Jan 25, 2023
Peter Kellner and Naomi Smith: Britain on strike
Jan 18, 2023
Rafael Behr and Francesca Ebel: Are Russians fighting or fleeing?
Jan 11, 2023
Prospect Team: What will surprise us in 2023?
Dec 28, 2022
Sheila Hancock, Alice Goodman and Tom Martin: Columnist catch-up
Dec 22, 2022
Rana Mitter and Isabel Hilton: Is China's growth engine stalling?
Dec 14, 2022
Would the German model fix the NHS?
Dec 08, 2022
Bryony Worthington and Simon Evans: Is nuclear power the answer?
Nov 30, 2022
Peter Apps: Will justice for Grenfell ever happen ?
Nov 23, 2022
Peter Kellner and Alfie Stirling: The Autumn Statement
Nov 17, 2022
Paul Maynard MP and Helen Barnard: What is the modern welfare state for?
Nov 09, 2022
The Rule of Law: Caroline Elkins
Nov 03, 2022
Dino Sofos and Tom Clark: Can Sheffield level up?
Nov 02, 2022
Helen King and Emily Lawford: Are the police institutionally sexist?
Oct 26, 2022
Emergency episode: The lettuce won
Oct 20, 2022
Naomi Smith and Peter Kellner: Can Truss cling on?
Oct 18, 2022
Is CEO pay too high?
Oct 12, 2022
Sonia Sodha and Rachel Sylvester: Conference chaos
Oct 05, 2022
Fiscal unfairness: will workers revolt?
Sep 27, 2022
Books in brief
Sep 20, 2022
How the housing crisis harmed a generation
Sep 13, 2022
Prime minister Truss
Sep 06, 2022
Sameer Rahim: Demonising Salman Rushdie
Aug 30, 2022
Helen Barnard and Stu Hennigan: The deep poverty crisis
Aug 23, 2022
Why do we anthropomorphise AI?
Aug 16, 2022
Hot cultural summer
Aug 09, 2022
Stewart Wood and Tom Clark: How Labour could win
Aug 02, 2022
The World's Top Thinkers 2022
Jul 26, 2022
The Rule of Law: Adam Wagner
Jul 21, 2022
Dominic Grieve and Sam Freedman: The Tory leadership contest
Jul 19, 2022
Peter Kellner and Alice Lily: Has the constitution survived Boris?
Jul 12, 2022
Darren McGarvey: Why don't we talk about class?
Jul 05, 2022
Alex Dean: Stuffing the ballot box
Jun 28, 2022
Tilly Lawless and Jessica Abrahams: Sex work and society
Jun 22, 2022
The rule of law: Roe v Wade
Jun 15, 2022
Tom Clark: The cost of leaving
Jun 14, 2022
John Goetz: Tracking down a torturer
Jun 07, 2022
Priyamvada Gopal: The cult of Churchill
May 30, 2022
Ethan Zuckerman: Welcome to the splinternet
May 24, 2022
Prospect Lives: Pets, Pinter and learning to let go
May 18, 2022
Can Europe keep the lights on without Russia?
May 18, 2022
Paul Hayward: Cricket's class problem
May 10, 2022
Peter Kellner: What do the local election results mean?
May 06, 2022
Miranda France: Rethinking Picasso
May 03, 2022
Special Episode: The Rules of War
Apr 29, 2022
George Robertson: What I learnt from negotiating with Putin
Apr 26, 2022
Samuel Moyn: How to stop a new Cold War
Apr 19, 2022
Prospect Lives: Grief, joy and Easter
Apr 13, 2022
Voices from Ukraine
Apr 12, 2022
Andrew Simms: How to save a burning planet
Apr 05, 2022
Ruth Deyermond: Why Putin has already lost
Mar 29, 2022
Sameer Rahim: The secrets of Stonehenge
Mar 23, 2022
Helen Thompson: Russia and a fragile west
Mar 16, 2022
Prospect Lives: Hope, friendship and prejudice
Mar 10, 2022
Megan Greene: The economics of Putin's war
Mar 09, 2022
Peter Ricketts: How to stop Putin
Mar 02, 2022
Ethan Zuckerman: How to fix the algorithm
Feb 25, 2022
Duncan Campbell: Are the police a spent force?
Feb 17, 2022
Peter Hennessy: Boris Johnson vs The Constitution
Feb 09, 2022
Prospect Lives: Haircuts, burnout and belonging
Feb 03, 2022
Rachel Sylvester: Is it all over for Boris Johnson?
Jan 26, 2022
Jonathan Rée on the philosopher who predicted Trump's rise
Jan 20, 2022
Sarah Boseley: Why won't Big Pharma share their vaccine patents?
Jan 12, 2022
Fintan O'Toole: Does cancel culture really exist?
Jan 05, 2022
Prospect Team: What will surprise us in 2022?
Dec 29, 2021
Jane Martinson: What's going on at the Daily Mail?
Dec 22, 2021
Special Episode: Prospect Lives
Dec 16, 2021
Andrew Adonis: It's the leader stupid!
Dec 08, 2021
Brian Klaas: Does power corrupt or do the corrupt choose power?
Dec 01, 2021
Could you beat a robot at chess?
Nov 30, 2021
Philip Ball on the long shadow of Covid-19
Nov 24, 2021
Helena Kennedy: Does the government respect the rule of law?
Nov 17, 2021
Janine di Giovanni and the plight of Christians in the Middle East
Nov 10, 2021
Andrew Roberts on redeeming mad King George
Nov 03, 2021
Could you beat a robot at chess?
Oct 27, 2021
Fiona Harvey on climate diplomacy and COP26
Oct 20, 2021
David Renton: The lawyer fighting the housing crisis from the frontline
Oct 13, 2021
Steve Richards on the prime ministers we never had
Oct 06, 2021
Gillian Tett on how she predicted the financial crash
Sep 29, 2021
Did Medea really kill her children?
Sep 22, 2021
Sebastian Payne on Ben Houchen
Sep 15, 2021
The world’s top thinkers 2021
Sep 08, 2021
Richard H Thaler on nudge and sludge
Sep 02, 2021
Andrew Adonis on Boris Johnson
Aug 25, 2021
Rebecca Wragg Sykes on the lives of the Neanderthals
Aug 18, 2021
Amia Srinivasan on porn and desire
Aug 12, 2021
Ed Miliband on how to fix the world
Aug 03, 2021
Amartya Sen on identity and globalisation
Jul 27, 2021
The England delusion
Jul 20, 2021
Race and guns in an unequal America
Jul 13, 2021
Are referendums a force for good?
Jul 06, 2021
Poland’s authoritarian turn
Jun 30, 2021
The new British metafiction
Jun 22, 2021
The new Conservatives, with Rachel Sylvester
Jun 15, 2021
Why Britain is condemned to be liberal
Jun 09, 2021
The rise of the British shock jock
Jun 01, 2021
The life and mind of Edward Said
May 26, 2021
Classical music in the age of Covid
May 18, 2021
What makes a good political leader?
May 11, 2021
Governing in the age of populism
May 05, 2021
The trials of Narendra Modi
Apr 27, 2021
The battle for the Arctic
Apr 20, 2021
The literary afterlives of Philip Roth
Apr 13, 2021
The real Stephen Hawking, with Philip Ball
Apr 06, 2021
Is UK democracy under threat?
Mar 30, 2021
England’s robotic national curriculum
Mar 23, 2021
Scotland’s land revolution
Mar 16, 2021
Barbara Speed on 20 years of Wikipedia
Mar 11, 2021
Andrew Marr on break-up Britain
Mar 02, 2021
Karachi Vice, with Samira Shackle
Feb 23, 2021
We are Bellingcat, with Eliot Higgins
Feb 16, 2021
The unofficial Covid-19 inquiry
Feb 09, 2021
The art of the ordinary, with Marc Stears
Feb 02, 2021
Post-human landscapes, with Cal Flyn
Jan 26, 2021
Will Joe Biden save America?
Jan 19, 2021
George Saunders’s masterclass in the Russian short story
Jan 12, 2021
Women, slavery and resistance
Jan 05, 2021
Covid-19 then and now, with Phil Ball
Jan 02, 2021
Who was the real Jesus?
Dec 15, 2020
Saudi Arabia’s reform and repression
Dec 08, 2020
Who killed soft Brexit?
Dec 01, 2020
Douglas Stuart on writing Shuggie Bain
Nov 24, 2020
Radical attention, with Julia Bell
Nov 17, 2020
Lessons from the pandemic, with Fareed Zakaria
Nov 10, 2020
US Election Special
Nov 04, 2020
America in the world, with Stephen Wertheim
Nov 01, 2020
Jacques Derrida's philosophy
Oct 27, 2020
Owen Jones on the future of the left
Oct 20, 2020
Hard Brexit now?
Oct 13, 2020
Can elitism restore democracy?
Oct 06, 2020
Robert Macfarlane’s Underland
Sep 29, 2020
Writing the Booker Prize-shortlisted Burnt Sugar
Sep 22, 2020
Celebrating London on film
Sep 15, 2020
The Covid-19 economic crisis, with Adam Tooze
Sep 09, 2020
I was Saddam’s prisoner
Aug 25, 2020
The literature of Marvel Comics
Aug 18, 2020
Sarah Churchwell and Kenan Malik on white identity
Aug 11, 2020
How can nations atone for their sins?
Aug 05, 2020
Andrew Adonis on Ernest Bevin
Jul 29, 2020
South Korea in fiction
Jul 21, 2020
The world’s top 50 thinkers 2020
Jul 14, 2020
Covid-19 and race, with Angela Saini
Jul 09, 2020
Working motherhood, with Emma Lundin
Jun 30, 2020
Trumpocalypse, with David Frum
Jun 23, 2020
The global crisis of sleep
Jun 16, 2020
GE Moore: the philosopher who disappeared
Jun 09, 2020
Shakespeare’s Plague
Jun 02, 2020
Rutger Bregman’s Humankind
May 26, 2020
George Eliot’s philosophy, with Clare Carlisle
May 19, 2020
Rebuilding the world after Covid-19
May 12, 2020
Slowing the world down, with Danny Dorling
May 05, 2020
Behind the science of Covid-19
Apr 28, 2020
The Nazi leader that vanished, with Philippe Sands
Apr 21, 2020
Reconfiguring race with Thomas Chatterton Williams
Apr 15, 2020
Colum McCann on writing the Israel-Palestine conflict
Apr 08, 2020
Paul Krugman on zombie economics
Mar 31, 2020
The political rivalry that shaped Middle East
Mar 24, 2020
Britain’s language learning crisis explained
Mar 17, 2020
Thomas Piketty on capitalism and inequality today
Mar 10, 2020
Women warriors throughout history, with Julie Wheelwright
Mar 04, 2020
Being a good opposition leader, with Steve Richards
Feb 25, 2020
The AI delusion, with Philip Ball
Feb 18, 2020
Legal special: Judicial review in Boris Johnson’s Britain, with the Better Human podcast
Feb 11, 2020
Brown sauce, British food, and class politics, with Caroline O’Donoghue
Feb 04, 2020
Grief in the age of the Internet
Jan 27, 2020
Veganism in the era of climate change
Jan 21, 2020
Labour leadership contest: what's going to happen?
Jan 13, 2020
Liberalism and John Rawls, with Katrina Forrester
Dec 19, 2019
2019 General Election special
Dec 13, 2019
Meritocracy and the social mobility trap, with Daniel Markovits
Dec 12, 2019
English philosophy and RG Collingwood, with Ray Monk
Dec 05, 2019
Imperialism and the East India Company, with William Dalrymple
Nov 28, 2019
The Home Office’s Hostile Environment, with Maya Goodfellow
Nov 21, 2019
The impeachment inquiry against Trump, with James Zirin
Nov 14, 2019
The Brexit election? A primer to the December vote
Nov 07, 2019
Breaking the Harvey Weinstein story with Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor
Oct 30, 2019
Susan Neiman on learning from the Germans
Oct 24, 2019
Charles Moore on Margaret Thatcher
Oct 16, 2019
Jonathan Haidt on political speech
Oct 09, 2019
The Uninhabitable Earth, with David Wallace-Wells
Oct 02, 2019
Catherine Haddon and Adam Wagner on the Supreme Court
Sep 27, 2019
Susan Sontag’s life, with Lisa Appignanesi
Sep 25, 2019
Robert Shiller’s narrative economics
Sep 18, 2019
Jolyon Maugham QC on Brexit
Sep 12, 2019
The Syrian war through the camera
Sep 11, 2019
The Brexit fiasco past and present, with Peter Foster
Sep 04, 2019
Simone de Beauvoir’s philosophy, with Kate Kirkpatrick
Aug 30, 2019
Conservatism after Brexit, with Tim Montgomerie
Aug 21, 2019
#94: Brexit—last chance to stop a no-deal? With David Anderson and Meg Russell
Aug 14, 2019
The battle over bread, with Dan Hancox
Aug 07, 2019
Tony Blair’s foreign policy, with Steve Bloomfield
Jul 31, 2019
Confronting inequality, with David Blanchflower and Angus Deaton
Jul 24, 2019
Demystifying the food industry, with Marion Nestle
Jul 19, 2019
Mental health with Nathan Filer
Jul 11, 2019
Behind the generation wars, with Jennie Bristow
Jul 03, 2019
Understanding the ugly building, with Timothy Hyde
Jun 26, 2019
Bringing the Green New Deal home, with Ed Miliband
Jun 19, 2019
The art of scripture, with Karen Armstrong
Jun 12, 2019
Hay Festival special, with Steven Pinker, Elif Shafak and the Roundhouse Poetry Collective
Jun 05, 2019
Disability on film, with Tom Shakespeare
May 15, 2019
Remembering the women of Westminster, with Rachel Reeves
May 08, 2019
Forging a new political economy, with Paul Mason
May 01, 2019
Living through digital afterlives, with Elaine Kasket
Apr 24, 2019
What Labour's Tom Watson will do next, with Kevin Maguire
Apr 17, 2019
The woman with a mission to help donor-conceived children find their biological fathers, with Stefanie Marsh
Apr 10, 2019
The art of translation, with Miranda France
Apr 04, 2019
The experiment that gave us the wrong idea about evil, with Stephen Reicher and Alex Haslam
Mar 27, 2019
Saving the world with Mike Berners-Lee
Mar 25, 2019
How to have better political arguments, with Adam Wagner
Feb 06, 2019
Brexit and the constitutional question with Vernon Bogdanor
Jan 30, 2019
Why are so many of us tracking our own lives? With Barbara Speed
Jan 23, 2019
Wendell Steavenson on Britain's hidden recycling crisis
Jan 16, 2019
Stephen Wall on the coming Brexit battles
Jan 09, 2019
Stanley McChrystal on Donald Trump
Jan 02, 2019
Clive James on the real Philip Larkin
Dec 19, 2018
Martin Rees on the limits of the human mind
Dec 12, 2018
George Magnus—is China heading for a fall?
Dec 05, 2018
Have computers ruined chess? An interview with David Edmonds
Nov 27, 2018
Britain's Churchill problem, with Piers Brendon
Nov 21, 2018
Alan Rusbridger on Oxford's biggest problem
Nov 14, 2018
A new voice in a troubled country, with Samira Shackle
Nov 07, 2018
The problem with British capitalism, with Paul Collier
Oct 31, 2018
Who is John McDonnell? With Kevin Maguire
Oct 24, 2018
Is Socialism coming to America? With Clare Malone
Oct 17, 2018
Who was Sergei Skripal? A conversation with Mark Urban
Oct 10, 2018
Party conference special
Oct 03, 2018
Is identity a mirage? With Kwame Anthony Appiah
Sep 26, 2018
Political cartoons in an age beyond satire with Stephen Collins
Sep 19, 2018
Refugees, rights and writers with Lyndsey Stonebridge
Sep 12, 2018
When music meets philosophy with Ivan Hewett
Sep 05, 2018
The untold story of the financial crisis with Adam Tooze
Aug 29, 2018
Rethinking Israel-Palestine with Donald Macintyre
Aug 28, 2018
Sci-fi currencies and the philosophy of money with Eric Lonergan
Aug 15, 2018
What politeness masks with Freya Johnston
Aug 08, 2018
Where “America First” came from with Sarah Churchwell
Aug 01, 2018
A left-wing route to Remain with Zoe Williams
Jul 25, 2018
Maestros in miniature with Suna Erdem
Jul 18, 2018
Inside the Obama White House by Ben Rhodes
Jul 11, 2018
Why everyone should learn a dying language with Cal Flyn
Jul 04, 2018
Rock n’ Roll n’ Brexit with DJ Taylor
Jun 27, 2018
Will Brexit sink the Tories?
Jun 21, 2018
The unbridgeable divide in the Tory Party
Jun 14, 2018
From Cold War to hot peace
Jun 06, 2018
The end of the World Cup?
May 30, 2018
Fifty Shades of Atheism with John Gray
May 23, 2018
Planet China
May 17, 2018
Why globalism has failed
May 09, 2018
Local election special
May 04, 2018
The parliamentary showdown on Brexit
Apr 25, 2018
Will Self on drugs
Apr 19, 2018
Brexit and the economy—time to change direction
Apr 11, 2018
Saudi, Trump And Putin
Mar 28, 2018
What is Putin's game?
Mar 21, 2018
The end of death?
Mar 16, 2018
The gender injustices of our time
Mar 07, 2018
Why the world is getting better
Feb 27, 2018
The Free Speech wars
Feb 21, 2018
John Sawers on security
Feb 14, 2018
Crunch time on Brexit
Feb 06, 2018
Monsters of art
Jan 31, 2018
Web of control
Jan 19, 2018
The globalisation lie
Dec 12, 2017
Brexonomics
Nov 14, 2017
The state of the nation
Oct 06, 2017
BONUS: How To Fix... Social Care
Sep 19, 2017
The character thing with Ray Monk
Sep 13, 2017
Crowns and Culture Wars
Aug 15, 2017
Experts on trial
Jul 14, 2017
Game, set and match to the malcontents
Jun 20, 2017
Prospect Big Election Debate 2017
Jun 06, 2017
The Neverending Tory
May 12, 2017
Upending the old
Apr 07, 2017
The end for Labour?
Mar 10, 2017
Grave new world
Feb 10, 2017
Democracy under attack
Jan 16, 2017
Is The American Century over?
Dec 12, 2016
Enter President Trump
Nov 11, 2016
The romance delusion
Oct 10, 2016
Utopia
Sep 12, 2016