Intelligence Squared
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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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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...
Sex, Gender and Christianity: A 3,000 Year History, with Diarmaid MacCulloch and Mary Beard (Part Two)
In the twenty-first century, Christianity or historically Christian societies have witnessed one of the most extraordinary revolutions in attitudes to...
Sex, Gender and Christianity: A 3,000 Year History, with Diarmaid MacCulloch and Mary Beard (Part One)
In the twenty-first century, Christianity or historically Christian societies have witnessed one of the most extraordinary revolutions in attitudes to...
Is the Russia–Ukraine War a Failure of Strategy? With Lawrence Freedman
In an age of grinding wars, nuclear brinkmanship, and political volatility, what does strategy really mean - and how do leaders make decisions when th...
What Is Really at Stake at the North Pole? With Neil Shea
What Do Wolves, Caribou, and Global Superpowers Have in Common?
In this episode, Professor Helen Czerski speaks to journalist and author...
Sotheby's Talks | How Do Objects Achieve Iconic Status, with Grayson Perry and Xa Sturgis
On today’s episode, an episode from our friends at Sotheby's exploring the question: How do objects achieve iconic status? Taking inspiration from the...
Fiona Hill: The World in 2026 (Part Two)
Fiona Hill is one of the most authoritative voices on the forces reshaping global politics today. Born in County Durham, from 2017 to 2019 she was a s...
Fiona Hill: The World in 2026 (Part One)
Fiona Hill is one of the most authoritative voices on the forces reshaping global politics today. Born in County Durham, from 2017 to 2019 she was a s...
How has American hubris shaped Iran? With Scott Anderson
Scott Anderson is a veteran foreign reporter and war correspondent, and a contributing writer for The New York Times. Over his career he has reported...
What Does It Take to Run Goldman Sachs During a Meltdown? With Former CEO Lloyd Blankfein
What does it take to lead one of the world’s most powerful banks when the global financial system is on the brink of collapse?
As CEO for...
CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Trump, Iran and the World in 2026 (Part Two)
As one of the world’s most respected journalists, CNN’s chief international anchor Christiane Amanpour has witnessed some of the most consequential ev...
CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Trump, Iran and the World in 2026 (Part One)
As one of the world’s most respected journalists, CNN’s chief international anchor Christiane Amanpour has witnessed some of the most consequential ev...
Fatima Bhutto on Grief, Survival, and the Life-Affirming Love of Canine Companions
Fatima Bhutto was born into the world of high politics in Pakistan. She was just 14 when she witnessed the assasination of her politician father outsi...
Are Lithium and Cobalt the New Oil? The Elements of Power, with Nicolas Niarchos
Decarbonisation is triggering a new great-power race. As demand for green technologies and sustainable power sources grows, Washington and Beijing are...
The New Yorker’s Jon Lee Anderson on Afghanistan: An American Catastrophe (Part Two)
Jon Lee Anderson is considered one of the great foreign correspondents of our time. Since the late 1980s, his on-the-ground reporting in Afghanistan h...
The New Yorker’s Jon Lee Anderson on Afghanistan: An American Catastrophe (Part One)
Jon Lee Anderson is considered one of the great foreign correspondents of our time. Since the late 1980s, his on-the-ground reporting in Afghanistan h...
The Specialist | Jackie O's Faux Pearls, with Frank Everett
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...
Could Silicon Valley Billionaires Cure Aging? With Aleks Krotoski
What it might mean – biologically, socially, and philosophically – if death becomes optional?
Humanity has long dreamed about the idea of...
Will AI Design New Organisms From Scratch? With Adrian Woolfson
What if DNA could be edited as easily as software? What if we could delete disease, redesign organisms, and eventually rewrite ourselves?
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Is it Game Over for Keir Starmer? Martin Wolf for The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook 2026 (Part Two)
2026 opened with a bang on the world stage. With Donald Trump's aggressive approach to foreign policy and the release of the Epstein files threatening...
Is it Game Over for Keir Starmer? Martin Wolf for The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook 2026 (Part One)
2026 opened with a bang on the world stage. With Donald Trump's aggressive approach to foreign policy and the release of the Epstein files threatening...
Fascism, Exile, and Redefining Home in the 21st Century, with Ece Temelkuran
What does it mean to belong when the very idea of home is under threat?
In this episode we’re joined by award-winning author and politica...
Why Changing How You Breathe Can Transform Your Health, with James Nestor
Each of us takes on average 25,000 breaths a day. Yet, as a species we have lost the ability to breathe correctly – and this has consequences for our...
The Trillion Dollar Battle For Your Attention, with Peter Schmidt and D. Graham Burnett
Our attention is under attack. A handful of powerful tech companies are extracting and monetising our focus, reshaping our inner lives and threatening...
Sir Sajid Javid – Lessons From the Front Bench (Part Two)
For more than a decade, Sir Sajid Javid was at the heart of power in Britain. First elected in 2010, he rapidly rose to his first cabinet position as...
Sir Sajid Javid – Lessons From the Front Bench (Part One)
For more than a decade, Sir Sajid Javid was at the heart of power in Britain. First elected in 2010, he rapidly rose to his first cabinet position as...
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...