EI Talks...

Each week, we interrogate the most important and contentious issues of our time. Hosted by Paul Lay and Alastair Benn.

Still from a film version of George Orwell's 1984.
Vladimir Putin's East German Stasi identification card issued while he worked as a KGB agent in Dresden in 1985.
Laurence Olivier plays Hamlet in 1948.
A woodblock print by Utagawa Hiroshige. From One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, 1856. Credit: incamerastock / Alamy Stock Photo
Then Vice President Xi Jinping makes an address in preparation for the 2008 Olympics.
Edvard Munch's painting of Friedrich Nietzsche.
King Charles VI of France prepares for war.
'Robert Louis Stevenson' by John Singer Sargent, 1885.
A satirical cartoon lampooning the expansion of the Monroe Doctrine.

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