Behind The Lines with Arthur Snell
By Arthur Snell
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Behind the Lines with Arthur Snell is a geopolitics podcast. Every week we give the listener access to the best informed people to help you understand this turbulent world and get a feel for the things that will matter in the future.
I am on Bluesky here and you can read some of my thoughts on world affairs here https://arthursnell.substack.com/
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FILL YOUR TANK! PREPAY YOUR GAS BILL! IT REALLY IS AN ENERGY EMERGENCY
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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THE SANCTUARY SCHOLARS Meet the displaced academics rewriting the future
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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Elemental: The New Geography of Climate Change
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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Back by popular demand: Charlie Gammell on the latest in Iran
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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IRAN EMERGENCY EPISODE WITH CHARLIE GAMMELL
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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Ukraine Special Episode: John Sweeney on four years of war and heroism
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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South Yemen and the reshaping of the Middle East
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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Cryptocurrency and Political Money Laundering - the threat to the UK with Neil Barnett
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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Conflict in the Arctic: the reality
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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The Post Western World and the Trump Regime
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Everything, everywhere all at once: what 2026 might hold, with Dan Kaszeta
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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Iran in Crisis: Charlie Gammell on the protests
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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EMERGENCY EPISODE: Maduro, Chavez, Delcy Rodriguez and where we're going in Venezuela
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Jan 04, 2026 |
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A Storm of Princes: Saudi Arabia and the UAE fight over South Yemen
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Dec 30, 2025 |
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The New Total War: Bob Seely on Russia's Strategy
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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America First: A New Era in Foreign Policy with Jonathan Terra
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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Crisis in the Sahel: the end of Western intervention and the collapse of Mali
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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Ukraine Crisis: Will Trump Force Moscow's Deal on Zelenskyy?
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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From Abu Ghraib to the White House - How Ahmad Al-Shara'a is Ruling Syria
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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Are we living in an age of competitive authoritarianism?
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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Emily Thornberry on British Foreign Policy
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Classic Behind the Lines: Disinformation in the Trump Era with Nina Jankowicz
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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Gaza - where are we now? with Michael Stephens
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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Emma Briant on the Age of Disinformation
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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Crossing the Line: an Israeli - Palestinian love story
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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Migration - the real facts in an age of alarmism
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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Can Ukraine Arm Europe?
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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Whatever happened to the Tories?
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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The War in Sudan, and role of the UAE
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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The Baltic States in the Twentieth Century and their security now
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Aug 30, 2025 |
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Understanding Trump's authoritarianism
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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How Technology is Transforming Warfare, with Matthew Savill
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Aug 17, 2025 |
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The Spy and the Devil
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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Ukraine, its occupied territories and its future
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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A Moment of Change? France recognises the State of Palestine
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Jul 27, 2025 |
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Is the Islamic regime in Iran fatally wounded?
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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Russia's Use of Chemical Weapons and a Victory for Dutch Spies
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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EPISODE 100: Creeping authoritarianism in the United States
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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Israel - Iran - ceasefire? Or more chaos
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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War in the Middle East and its wider impacts
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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Sten Rynning on the Past and the Future of NATO
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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Mike Martin MP on the Strategic Defence Review
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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Iran and the US: is a new nuclear deal in sight?
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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Starvation in Gaza, is the world finally responding?
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May 24, 2025 |
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Murder in Helmand
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May 17, 2025 |
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Yemen, the UK, the US and the transatlantic alliance
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May 10, 2025 |
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Ukraine and America: the great betrayal
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May 05, 2025 |
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The Geopolitics of Climate: how Tuvalu is thinking about possible extinction
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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RUSI/Disorder Partnership: Ransomware in our Age of Disorder
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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The Crisis in The Atlantic Alliance ep 2
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Apr 06, 2025 |
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The Crisis in the Atlantic Alliance
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Blood, toil, tears, and sweat: the plight of migrant labourers in the Gulf
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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Myanmar: the Unfolding Civil War
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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What does the collapsing global order mean for the world beyond the West?
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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How the extremism of our age is being fed by disinformation
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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The latest from Kyiv: what does John Sweeney make of what's being going on?
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Mar 02, 2025 |
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THIS ONE'S A REAL EMERGENCY EPISODE: THE END OF THE WESTERN ALLIANCE
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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UKRAINE, John Sweeney and a betrayal foretold
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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Nomad Century - is climate change going to transform global migration?
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Feb 08, 2025 |
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Could we change the weather?
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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The Gulf countries and a post-oil future?
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Jan 25, 2025 |
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Disinformation in the Trump 2.0 era with Nina Jankowicz
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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Justice in Syria: on the trail of Assad's henchmen
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Jan 18, 2025 |
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France in the Age of Populism
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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BONUS EPISODE - CRISIS IN GEORGIA
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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Charles Gammell on Iran post-Assad
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Dec 26, 2024 |
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Christmassy Episode: Miguel Delaney on the geopolitics of football
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Dec 21, 2024 |
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Inside HTS: what does Al-Jolani want and how will they rule?
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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The history of Syria, from the Pharaohs to the Pharaonic
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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Georgia: fighting to be European
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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EMERGENCY EPISODE: The Fall of Aleppo
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Dec 01, 2024 |
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Out of the shadows: MI6 Russia expert Christopher Steele on Trump and the new world order
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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What's going on in Iran
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Nov 23, 2024 |
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The age of bilateralism
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Nov 17, 2024 |
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The New World Order
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Nov 09, 2024 |
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Conspiracies and campaigns - Jason Pack on the 2024 election
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Nov 02, 2024 |
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Russia's dirty money: the Nordic connection
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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Digital war - from Ukraine, to the Sahel
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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SPECIAL UKRAINE EPISODE #VPDFO 1
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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The Red Emperor
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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Iran - where are they headed?
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Oct 05, 2024 |
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The Bangladesh Spring with David Bergman
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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What's the point of the UN?
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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EMERGENCY EPISODE: EXPLOSIVE CRISIS IN LEBANON
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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Rogue Agent - the life of ROBERT BRUCE LOCKHART
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Sep 14, 2024 |
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MBS - Saudi Arabia's ruthless ruler
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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Westlessness with Samir Puri
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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The Battle for Soul of Islam
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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The Caucasus: Europe's troubled border
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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Back to Ukraine - Away from summitry, what is happening on the ground?
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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The British Elections - an Outsider's perspective with Annette Dittert
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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What have they go to show for fourteen years of power? With Nick Cohen
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Jun 30, 2024 |
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EMERGENCY EPISODE: Jason Pack on Biden's debate disaster
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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France's election with Peter Ricketts
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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The Meg-election: Modi gets a shock from India's voters
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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The 'Other' Election: Europe Goes to the Polls
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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America's political crisis - the historic, structural and ideological roots
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Jun 01, 2024 |
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Disinformation and UK politics: will it effect the 2024 election?
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May 25, 2024 |
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Georgia: on the frontlines of the global fight between freedom and authoritarianism
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May 19, 2024 |
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A critical friend: Helene von Bismarck on Britain and the World
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May 09, 2024 |
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What might a Labour government try to do in its relations with the EU?
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May 03, 2024 |
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Kharkiv and Ukraine's will to survive with Jade McGlynn
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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Where is the EU going and what does that mean for the UK?
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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Iran, Israel and the risks of a regional war
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Politics and Money: a Dysfunctional Relationship, with Seth Thevoz
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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The tragedy of Haiti and what we can learn from it
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Mar 30, 2024 |
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World War Three? What might it look like?
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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Is Democracy for Sale? with Peter Geoghegan
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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REJOINIACS with Jacob Öberg
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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Ukraine, Russia and the Crisis in Western Militaries
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Chemical Weapons, Poisons and Assassinations, with Dan Kaszeta
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Feb 24, 2024 |
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What Does Iran Want?
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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How to Solve a Problem Like the Houthis
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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Chainsaw Politics: Argentina's Anarchic President
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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YEMEN BONUS EPISODE: In conversation with Jason Pack
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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S2Ep2: EMERGENCY EP: Yemen's Houthis with Hannah Porter - What do they want and why do they want it?
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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Ukraine's Tough Year with Luke Harding
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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Holiday Special Ep 20: Shane O'Mara on the science of memory and what that tells us about nationalism
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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Ep 19 The Israel Palestine conflict with James Barr, part II - after the Holocaust
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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Ep 18 James Barr on the History of the Israel Palestine dispute
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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Ep 17 Can Parliament Take Back Control?
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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Ep 16: James O'Brien on How they Broke Britain
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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Ep 15: Ukraine - Europe's Forgotten War?
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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Ep 14: The Gardener of Laskhar Gah - Britain's Afghan Betrayal
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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Behind the Lines Episode 13: The UK's Long March back to Europe?
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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Behind the Lines Ep 12: Bella Omnium Contra Omnes?
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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BONUS EPISODE: Avoiding A Regional War
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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Behind The Lines Ep 10 - Trumps Dirty Roubles With Greg Olear
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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Behind The Lines Ep 9 - Israel’s Gaza challenge
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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Behind The Lines Emergency Episode - Hamas' War Against Israel with Jason Pack
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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Behind The Lines Ep 7 - How to Stop Fascism, with Paul Mason
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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Behind The Lines Ep 6 - Still Beautiful? The Cynical World of Globalised Football
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Behind The Lines Ep 5 - Libya and the Disordered World
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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Behind The Lines Ep 4 - The Threats To Global Democracy
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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Behind The Lines Ep 3 - Zimbabwe’s Forgotten Dictatorship
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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Behind The Lines Ep 2 - Ukraine's Radical War
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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Behind The Lines Ep 1 - Prigozhin's Fall
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Aug 25, 2023 |