The EI Podcast

The EI Podcast brings you weekly conversations and audio essays from leading writers, thinkers and historians. Hosted by Alastair Benn and Paul Lay. Find the EI Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or search The EI Podcast wherever you get your podcasts.

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The fall of the Berlin Wall.
German statesman Konrad Adenauer depicted on a coin.
Wildlife photographer Carl Ethan Akeley photographed in 1926. Credit: Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery / Public Domain
Television presenter Frank Reynolds covering the 1968 election.
TV screens showing the live broadcast of the Google DeepMind Challenge Match at Yongsan Electronic Technology Land in Seoul, South Korea.
Conflict in Europe.
The flags of the United States and Ukraine flying side by side.
1890 engraving of Philippa Fawcett, the first female Senior Wrangler.
Woodrow Wilson delivering a Christmas address to soldiers of the A.E.F. Langres, Haute Marne, France, December 1918.

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