Episode 221
The West’s lust for liberty
The late Christopher Coker, Professor of International Relations at the London School of E...
May 16, 2025
EI Weekly
A series of audio essays featuring our writers.
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Episode 220
How the liberation of France shaped the modern world
Agnès Poirier, journalist and broadcaster, examines how the liberation of France in 1944 o...
May 2, 2025
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Episode 219
Madame Bovary and the problem of desire
Marie Daouda, lecturer in French language and literature at the University of Oxford, show...
April 17, 2025
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Episode 218
Brendan Simms on the German key to European liberty
Germany today struggles to muster a serious military response to the Russian challenge. Th...
April 11, 2025
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Episode 217
Iuliia Osmolovska on how Russia negotiates
Ukrainians are better placed than their Western partners to decode the Russian negotiating...
April 4, 2025
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Episode 216
Juliet Samuel on liberty under attack
Just as generations did before us, we are learning that a belief in liberty is not self-ev...
March 28, 2025
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Episode 215
Roel Sterckx on gazing back to see China’s future
We must study the centuries-long history that has forged the DNA of Chinese political thin...
March 21, 2025
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Episode 214
Alexander Lee on the myth of Venice
Liberty was central to the idea of Venice, but was remarkably fragile. The republic had to...
March 14, 2025
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Episode 213
Richard Miles on Spartacus, history’s nowhere man
Spartacus is a figure who floats between history and allegory. Read by Helen Lloyd.
March 7, 2025