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).
'Robert Louis Stevenson' by John Singer Sargent, 1885.
The brain as a weapon of war.
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Victory Parade marking the 70th anniversary of the surrender of Nazi Germany in the Second World War.
'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.