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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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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...
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...