EI Talks...

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

First prize winner at the Covent Garden fancy dress ball in 1905, a lady dressed in an elaborate costume as the Entente Cordiale.
Anarchist outrage at the Liceo theatre in Barcelona, 1893.
Mechanical brain.
Werner Herzog on the set of Fitzcarraldo, 1982

Episode 32

Werner Herzog

Geoff Andrew, the BFI's programmer-at-large, and film critic Muriel Zagha sit down with EI...

March 6, 2024

Bust of Horace.
Street musicians in London in the Edwardian era.
An Israeli flag is seen through a dust cloud near the border with the Gaza strip.
A monument to Arab-Soviet Friendship at the Aswan dam, Egypt.
A still from The Boy and the Heron directed by Miyazaki Hayao.

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