EI Talks...

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

High-rise buildings in Hong Kong.
A city speculator trying to sell his car for $100 cash after having lost everything on the stock market (1929).
Mexican general Agustín de Iturbide rides through a ceremonial arch to welcoming officials in Mexico City on September 27, 1821 after decisively winning independence for Mexico.
The brain as a weapon of war.
Graham Greene in 1940.
'Taming the British Lion'. Puck magazine, 1888.
A painting displaying the splendour of the Neapolitan fleet.
Rudolph Müller, View of the Acropolis from the Pynx (1863).
Lafcadio Hearn photographed with his wife, Setsuko Koizumi, and their son.