The EI Podcast
Simon Mayall on the history of the modern Middle East
The current violence and turmoil in the Middle East is expressive of a conflict between ri...
May 10, 2024
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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James Hardie on Heinrich Biber, composer of rapture and ravings
James Hardie on the violinist-composer who mixed the sacred and profane in his fantastical...
May 9, 2024
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Lawrence James on the invention of jingoism
Jingoism was a natural offshoot of late Victorian imperialism. Read by Leighton Pugh.
May 3, 2024
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Caravaggio’s ‘last’ painting
A small but riveting exhibition at London's National Gallery tells the dramatic story of t...
May 2, 2024
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Steven Grosby on the persistence of nationhood
What is a nation, what is its significance, and to what problems of life is its persistenc...
April 26, 2024
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EI Portraits — Nehemiah Wallington: Puritan chronicler who had far less fun than Pepys
Vanessa Harding on the God-fearing diarist Nehemiah Wallington whose personality was far r...
April 25, 2024
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Adrian Wooldridge on meritocracy
The biggest division in modern society is between the meritocracy and the people, the cogn...
April 19, 2024
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The Entente Cordiale
Self-interest, imperial competition and new threats in Europe - T.G. Otte examines the com...
April 18, 2024
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Mariano Sigman on how language has shaped human consciousness
How did our ancestors think? Read by Leighton Pugh.
April 12, 2024