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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A series of audio essays featuring our writers.
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Episode 216
Juliet Samuel on liberty under attack
Just as generations did before us, we are learning that a belief in liberty is not self-ev...
March 28, 2025
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Episode 215
Roel Sterckx on gazing back to see China’s future
We must study the centuries-long history that has forged the DNA of Chinese political thin...
March 21, 2025
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Episode 214
Alexander Lee on the myth of Venice
Liberty was central to the idea of Venice, but was remarkably fragile. The republic had to...
March 14, 2025
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Episode 213
Richard Miles on Spartacus, history’s nowhere man
Spartacus is a figure who floats between history and allegory. Read by Helen Lloyd.
March 7, 2025
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Episode 212
Mary Elise Sarotte on how a Second Cold War could have been averted
The choice to enlarge NATO was a justifiable response to the geopolitics of the 1990s. The...
February 28, 2025
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Episode 211
Rob Johnson on Ukraine’s rich history of resistance
Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 was slowed down because of determined courageous resi...
February 21, 2025
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Episode 210
Peter Frankopan on the global threat to liberty
Non-western elites are redefining freedom on their own terms, as sovereignty, state securi...
February 14, 2025
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Episode 209
Katja Hoyer on how the GDR fell in love with the West
Citizens of the GDR were exposed to an idealised version of western freedoms made up of lu...
February 7, 2025