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 Ashes urn. Credit: David Bagnall / Alamy Stock Photo
Gustavus Adolphus II
String quartet playing in the Saint Nicholas Shopping centre, London.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks with the director of the London Defence Conference, Iain Martin.
Eighteenth century map of London.
Image: Programmable humanoid robot NAQ. Credit: Lilyana Vynogradova / Alamy Stock Phot
A print of a First World War Imperial German Navy battlecruiser, the SMS Goeben.
An American Mercantile Building in Yokohama, 1861.
Credit: Heritage Image Partnership Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo

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