Worldview

Worldview tackles big questions with the help of the best academics.

The Kremlin

Episode 76

Worldview: Reflections on War — The Russia Problem

In this week's episode, Adam Boulton is in conversation with Vladislav Zubok and Sir Roder...

June 12, 2022

NATO

Episode 74

Worldview: Reflections on War — The World Remade

In this week's episode, Adam Boulton is in conversation with Beatrice Heuser, Baroness Pau...

June 1, 2022

Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt meet at the Yalta conference in 1945. Credit: Wikipedia Commons

Episode 48

Worldview — the Eurasian century

For the Worldview podcast, Iain Martin is joined by Hal Brands, the Henry A. Kissinger Dis...

December 6, 2021

Standing atop rubble with retired New York City firefighter Bob Beckwith, President George W Bush rallies firefighters and rescue workers during an impromptu speech at the site of the collapsed World Trade Center. Image courtesy National Archives. Credit: Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images.

Episode 42

Worldview — what is the future of the West?

Iain Martin is joined by leading security and international relations experts to discuss t...

September 17, 2021

The quads at Princeton University, New Jersey, USA. Credit: Bloomberg / Getty Images.

Episode 24

Worldview — Can meritocracy be rescued and repaired?

Iain Martin is joined by Adrian Wooldridge and Daniel Markovits to discuss the crisis of o...

May 14, 2021

Chinese president Jiang Zemin opens trading on the New York Stock Exchange, October 1993. Credit: Timothy A. Clary / AFP via Getty Images.

Episode 14

Worldview – China in the 90s: why did it rise?

Niall Ferguson, Helen Thompson and Rana Mitter join Iain Martin to explore what happened t...

February 26, 2021

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) 32nd President of USA 1932-184545, photographed c1943. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Episode 7

Covid and reform: can the West fix its governing systems?

Iain Martin with guests Adrian Wooldridge and Vernon Bogdanor discusses the Covid crisis a...

November 14, 2020

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Episode 4

Can the West be revived?

How did the West land in, what we might politely call, a 'sub-optimal' position? And is a ...

July 24, 2020