Episode 219
Madame Bovary and the problem of desire
Marie Daouda, lecturer in French language and literature at the University of Oxford, show...
April 17, 2025
A series of audio essays featuring our writers.
Marie Daouda, lecturer in French language and literature at the University of Oxford, show...
April 17, 2025
Germany today struggles to muster a serious military response to the Russian challenge. Th...
April 11, 2025
Ukrainians are better placed than their Western partners to decode the Russian negotiating...
April 4, 2025
Just as generations did before us, we are learning that a belief in liberty is not self-ev...
March 28, 2025
We must study the centuries-long history that has forged the DNA of Chinese political thin...
March 21, 2025
Liberty was central to the idea of Venice, but was remarkably fragile. The republic had to...
March 14, 2025
Spartacus is a figure who floats between history and allegory. Read by Helen Lloyd.
March 7, 2025
The choice to enlarge NATO was a justifiable response to the geopolitics of the 1990s. The...
February 28, 2025
Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 was slowed down because of determined courageous resi...
February 21, 2025