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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 Aurelian; a Natural History of English Moths and Butterflies, published by Henry Bohn, London, 1840.
Close-up vintage map of the Middle East featuring Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Yemen, and surrounding regions.
Still from a film version of George Orwell's 1984.
Vladimir Putin's East German Stasi identification card issued while he worked as a KGB agent in Dresden in 1985.
A woodblock print by Utagawa Hiroshige. From One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, 1856. Credit: incamerastock / Alamy Stock Photo
Laurence Olivier plays Hamlet in 1948.
Then Vice President Xi Jinping makes an address in preparation for the 2008 Olympics.

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