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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EI Weekly Listen – Johan Hakelius: John Hughes and the making and unmaking of the American Dream

EI Weekly Listen – Iskander Rehman: Why applied history matters

EI Weekly Listen – Vanessa Harding: Remembering London’s last Great Plague

An American soldier passes the ruins of a temple in Hue, Vietnam, 1968. Credit: Bettmann Archive / Getty Images.

EI Weekly Listen – Gillian Clark: Survival lessons from Ancient Rome

EI Weekly Listen – Peter Frankopan: This crisis has the capacity to be apocalyptic

Chinese president Jiang Zemin opens trading on the New York Stock Exchange, October 1993. Credit: Timothy A. Clary / AFP via Getty Images.
Robert Maxwell, left, celebrating the first edition of 'The European' in 1990 with Maurice Levy of Publicis. Credit: Michel Turpin / Sygma via Getty Images.
The GCHQ building in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Credit: David Goddard / Getty Images.