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Join our deputy editor Ellen Halliday and senior editor Alona Ferber as they interview some of the brightest minds to discuss the ideas that matter most in politics, society and culture.The Prospect Podcast is produced by Prospect Magazine.Subscribe to Prospect and enjoy our rigorously fact-checked, truly independent analysis and perspectives. Get one free issue of Prospect when you sign up today: https://subscription.prospectmagazine.co.uk/OCT1MFBG/prospect-magazine/OCT1MFG Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Oct 18, 2023 • 28min
Biodiversity on the brink?
Investigative journalist Nicola Cutcher explains why nature is, surprisingly, struggling inside many of the UK’s national parks. So, can the Bannau Brycheiniog national park in Wales, formerly known as the Brecon Beacons, revive it, and bring wildlife back from the brink? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Oct 11, 2023 • 21min
Sam Freedman: Reflections from the Labour party conference
Sam Freedman talks to Ellen Halliday about his first visit to a Labour party conference in several years. In Liverpool he finds a very professional and prepared party aiming to be in power after the next election.Prospect brings rigorously fact-checked analysis, ideas and perspectives to the big topics the world is grappling with. Special offer: Buy a digital subscription – only £3 for three months' access (then £49 annually).Click HERE to subscribe. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Oct 4, 2023 • 32min
Andrew Bailey: Please, don’t call me Mr Governor!
Lionel Barber has an exclusive conversation with Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank of England. In a rare interview Bailey sheds light on a difficult period for the bank: covid, the end of the furlough scheme and the brief period where Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng were in charge of the country. Looking ahead, he says there will be more shocks to come. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 27, 2023 • 31min
Lizzie Porter: Syria's forgotten
After more than a decade of devastation in Syria, the country has slipped off the international news agenda. And Arab nations are embracing Bashar al-Assad once again. Lizzie Porter, an award-winning journalist and senior correspondent for Iraq Oil Report joins Ellen Halliday on the podcast to discuss what this means for the Syrian people. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 20, 2023 • 27min
Barry Eichengreen: Is the end of globalisation near?
Donald Trump, Brexit, Covid-19: for a little while it seemed like nothing could stop the march of globalisation. But as tussels between the US and China come more sharply to the fore, will it finally have met its match? Barry Eichengreen, economist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, joins Alan Rusbridger to discuss whether free trade and global markets can endure in the face of growing geopolitical rivalries. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 12, 2023 • 29min
Matthew d’Ancona: How centrism became a bad joke
For Prospect’s October cover story, author, journalist and contributing editor Matthew d’Ancona asked why political centrism died and what it would take to revive it. He joins Alan Rusbridger on the podcast to outline how a new radical centrist movement could defeat the populists. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 5, 2023 • 24min
Elena Gordon: My son, Putin’s prisoner
Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian opposition politician and British national, has been sentenced to 25 years in a maximum-security Russian penal colony. Talking to Ellen Halliday, his mother Elena Gordon reflects on his early life and his commitment to Russian democracy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 29, 2023 • 24min
Paul Wallace: The wrong kind of inflation
With interests rates rising and inflation falling, is the economy heading in the right direction? Or are we teetering on the brink of recession? And how will the current economic turbulence shape our politics before the next general election? Paul Wallace, freelance journalist and former European economics editor at The Economist, joins Prospect's managing editor Alex Dean to explain the context behind the headlines. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 22, 2023 • 32min
Jane O'Grady: Were the Greek philosophers self-help gurus?
Can the Stoics help solve the mental health crisis? Should we adopt an Epicurean approach to pleasure? On this week's podcast, writer and lecturer Jane O'Grady joins Prospect's Mindful life columnist Sarah Collins to discuss whether the ancient Greeks can teach us how live. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 16, 2023 • 28min
David Loyn: Why the west is failing Afghanistan
Two years on from the fall of Kabul, is the west's soft engagement with the Taliban working? David Loyn, an award-winning foreign correspondent who was with the Taliban when they took Kabul in 1996 and has visited Afghanistan ever since, explains to Prospect deputy editor Ellen Halliday why he thinks the UK government should change its approach. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
