EI Weekly Podcast: Episode 220
How the liberation of France shaped the modern world
Agnès Poirier, journalist and broadcaster, examines how the liberation of France in 1944 o…
May 2, 2025
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EI Talks… Podcast: Episode 65
China vs the WTO: The Inside Story
EI’s Alastair Benn and Paul Lay are joined by Michael Sheridan, author of two books on Chi…
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EI Weekly Podcast: Episode 219
Madame Bovary and the problem of desire
Marie Daouda, lecturer in French language and literature at the University of Oxford, show…
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EI Weekly Podcast: Episode 218
Brendan Simms on the German key to European liberty
Germany today struggles to muster a serious military response to the Russian challenge. Th…
April 11, 2025
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EI Talks… Podcast: Episode 64
The making of Trump’s worldview
What are the deep roots of Trump’s worldview? Can we learn to read Trump’s behaviour? And …
April 10, 2025
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EI Weekly Podcast: Episode 217
Iuliia Osmolovska on how Russia negotiates
Ukrainians are better placed than their Western partners to decode the Russian negotiating…
April 4, 2025
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