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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Supporters of the pro-Iranian Lebanese Hezbollah group wave the party flags in front of a poster of late Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini during a ceremony in Beirut.
US Ambassador to the United Nations, Adlai Stevenson, second from right, confronts Soviet delegate Valerian Zorin, first on left, with a display of reconnaissance photographs during an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council at the United Nations headquarters in New York, on October 25, 1962.
The Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre by Francois Dubois.
A 17th century painting of Saint Augustine and Saint Monica.
Trasverberazione di Santa Teresa d’Avila (1640). Credit: jozef sedmak / Alamy Stock Photo Trasverberazione di Santa Teresa d’Avila (1640).
The Beatles showing their MBE Insignias after receiving them from the Queen.
Crowds cheer joyfully in central Cairo, Egypt.
Shawnee chief Tecumseh confronting William Henry Harrison in Indiana.
Print of early humans making fire.