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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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'Robert Louis Stevenson' by John Singer Sargent, 1885.
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Victory Parade marking the 70th anniversary of the surrender of Nazi Germany in the Second World War.
The brain as a weapon of war.
'Taming the British Lion'. Puck magazine, 1888.
Rudolph Müller, View of the Acropolis from the Pynx (1863).
A painting displaying the splendour of the Neapolitan fleet.
High-rise buildings in Hong Kong.
Lafcadio Hearn photographed with his wife, Setsuko Koizumi, and their son.
A city speculator trying to sell his car for $100 cash after having lost everything on the stock market (1929).

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