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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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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.
...
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...
Can Discomfort Be the Key to a Better Life? With Ken Rideout
Dr Radha Modgil is joined by endurance athlete, investor and author Ken Rideout for an inspiring Intelligence Squared conversation on what it really t...
How and Why did Sexual Reproduction Evolve on our Planet? With Dr Lixing Sun
Before sex evolved on our planet, two billion years ago, all reproduction happened asexually. So why and how did sexual reproduction evolve?
Hungry for Life! An Evening with Prue Leith (Part Two)
According to Great British Bake Off judge and national treasure Prue Leith the secret to a happy life lies in embracing everyday with joy while accept...
Hungry for Life! An Evening with Prue Leith (Part One)
According to Great British Bake Off judge and national treasure Prue Leith the secret to a happy life lies in embracing everyday with joy while accept...
How deeply was the British Crown involved in the transatlantic slave trade? With author of The Crown’s Silence, Brooke Newman
How deeply was the British Crown involved in the transatlantic slave trade? New research by historian Brooke Newman argues that, from the reign of Que...
The Specialist | The Coin Worth More Than Its Weight in Gold, with Selby Kiffer and David Tripp
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...
Why Are Populists Winning? With Liam Byrne and Will Hutton
Populism has been winning big in recent years. It is the wave that has buoyed Donald Trump’s second term in office, Marine Le Pen’s popularity in Fran...
How To Overcome Trauma, With Psychotherapist Dr Gwen Adshead (Part Two)
Dr Gwen Adshead is one of Britain’s leading forensic psychiatrists. She is the author of The Sunday Times bestseller, The Devil You Know, which inspir...
How To Overcome Trauma, With Psychotherapist Dr Gwen Adshead (Part One)
Dr Gwen Adshead is one of Britain’s leading forensic psychiatrists. She is the author of The Sunday Times bestseller, The Devil You Know, which inspir...
How Has Living With Animals Shaped Our Brains? With Michael Bond
Humans are animals. 40,000 years ago our ancestors considered themselves inseparable from the landscape and the wild animals that lived alongside them...
The Specialist | From Canvas to Canon: Joan Mitchell’s King of Spades, with Courtney Kremers
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...
Why Are Ancient Myths Resurfacing in Modern Britain? With Zakia Sewell
Are Pagan Traditions Shaping a New British Identity?
In this episode, Academic, broadcaster and critic Shahidha Bari speaks to journalist...