EI Weekly Podcast: Episode 227
How the Knights Templars conquered Christendom
Historian Nicholas Morton explores how a miracle of marketing brought the Knights Templars…
July 4, 2025
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EI Weekly Podcast: Episode 226
The lost art of chorography
The writer Josh Mcloughlin reflects on the art of chorography, one of English literature’s…
June 27, 2025
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EI Weekly Podcast: Episode 225
1975, the year that made the modern world
Historian Damian Valdez reflects on the meaning of 1975, a fateful year for the internatio…
June 20, 2025
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EI Talks… Podcast: Episode 67
How Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin fought Hitler – and each other
EI’s Paul Lay joins historian Tim Bouverie to discuss ‘Allies at War’, his gripping new bo…
June 13, 2025
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EI Weekly Podcast: Episode 224
What happened to the politician’s moustache?
Writer Luka Ivan Jukic laments the all-but-total disappearance of facial hair from politic…
June 6, 2025
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EI Weekly Podcast: Episode 223
The strange death of squalor
Journalist and author Jenny McCartney celebrates the magic of squalor, and explores how ge…
May 30, 2025
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