Podcast EI Weekly

EI Weekly

A series of audio essays featuring our writers.

Midsummer Dance by Swedish artist Anders Zorn (1860-1920) painted in 1897. A classic of Swedish art history showing traditional folk dancing in the Dalarna countryside in the extended summer evening light.
European Union flags.
Abdel Nasser at a rally after the rupture of relations with Syria.
Poster for a British imperial railway company.
Lucas Cranach's The Crossing of the Red Sea, 1530.
Caricature of a Cambridge University library in the Georgian era.
A play is performed in an ancient Greek theatre.
Triple-microscope made by the optician Camille Sebastien Nachet in Paris.
Nesting Russian dolls showing former leaders.