The EI Podcast
The lost art of chorography
The writer Josh Mcloughlin reflects on the art of chorography, one of English literature’s...
June 27, 2025
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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1975, the year that made the modern world
Historian Damian Valdez reflects on the meaning of 1975, a fateful year for the internatio...
June 20, 2025
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How Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin fought Hitler – and each other
EI’s Paul Lay joins historian Tim Bouverie to discuss ‘Allies at War’, his gripping new bo...
June 13, 2025
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What happened to the politician’s moustache?
Writer Luka Ivan Jukic laments the all-but-total disappearance of facial hair from politic...
June 6, 2025
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The strange death of squalor
Journalist and author Jenny McCartney celebrates the magic of squalor, and explores how ge...
May 30, 2025
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Why Finns joined the fight
Geopolitical analyst Charly Salonius-Pasternak examines Finland's long journey to full mem...
May 23, 2025
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The West’s lust for liberty
The late Christopher Coker, Professor of International Relations at the London School of E...
May 16, 2025
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Christianity and the creation of England
In this episode of The EI Podcast, the historian Bijan Omrani is joined by EI's Paul Lay t...
May 9, 2025
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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