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Sep 29, 2021 • 28min
Gillian Tett on how she predicted the financial crash
Gillian Tett, editor at large at the Financial Times and author of a new book Anthro-Vision, joins Tom Clark to explain how undercover anthropology helped her to predict the financial crash. Applying an anthropological lens to life has enabled Tett to spot the patterns that others miss, like the unexpected similarities shared by wedding rituals in Tajikistan and banking conferences in the US. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 22, 2021 • 33min
Did Medea really kill her children?
Charlotte Higgins, prize-winning author and the Guardian's chief culture writer, joins Sameer Rahim talk about her book, Greek Myths: A New Retelling. Their conversation tackles the big questions. Did the Greeks believe in their Gods? Does classics have a class problem? And did Medea really kill her children? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 15, 2021 • 34min
Sebastian Payne on Ben Houchen
Who is Ben Houchen and how did he help the Tories topple the red wall? Sebastian Payne, Whitehall Editor at the Financial Times joins the podcast to discuss the Tees Valley mayor that Boris Johnson is reportedly "obsessed" with, as well as the wider themes in his new book Broken Heartlands. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 8, 2021 • 25min
The world’s top thinkers 2021
What does it mean to be a public intellectual in 2021? In this episode Tom Clark, Sameer Rahim and Philip Ball discuss the work of Prospect’s Top Thinker of 2021, Palestinian embryologist Jacob Hanna, as well other notable names including Priyamvada Gopal, Mahmood Mandani and Carlo Rovelli. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 2, 2021 • 28min
Richard H Thaler on nudge and sludge
Bestselling author and renegade economist Richard H Thaler joins the Prospect Interview to talk about the book that made him famous, Nudge. So influential that the UK Cabinet office even created a dedicated Nudge Unit, the groundbreaking book–first published in 2008–is back in a final, revised edition. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 25, 2021 • 27min
Andrew Adonis on Boris Johnson
On this week’s podcast we’re joined by Prospect’s own contributing editor, Andrew Adonis, who discusses the class clown who became one of our most dominant prime ministers, Boris Johnson. How did he get to where he is today? In explaining the “Johnson phenomenon,” Andrew argues that we have to look back at the school that made him as well as many other prime ministers: Eton College. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 18, 2021 • 37min
Rebecca Wragg Sykes on the lives of the Neanderthals
On this week’s episode we speak to archaeologist and author of Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art, Rebecca Wragg Sykes. She joins managing editor Sameer Rahim to discuss the fascinating story of our closest cousins, the Neanderthals: how they might have lived, whether they had imagination—and just how much of our perceptions of them has changed in the 150 years since we first discovered their fossils. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 12, 2021 • 34min
Amia Srinivasan on porn and desire
On this week’s episode, writer, philosopher and Oxford don Amia Srinivasan joins us to talk about the ideas explored in her latest essay collection, The Right to Sex. From male entitlement to the politics of desire, Amia tells us why sex is a topic in need of a more philosophical interrogation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 3, 2021 • 30min
Ed Miliband on how to fix the world
Ed Miliband joins the Prospect Interview to discuss how to fix some of our most pressing policy issues, which he explores in his new book Go Big: How to Fix Our World. He joins editor Tom Clark to discuss Vienna’s social housing revolution, why the UK needs to embrace decentralisation, and why we shouldn’t count out the Labour Party for the next general election. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 27, 2021 • 41min
Amartya Sen on identity and globalisation
The Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen joins the Prospect Interview to discuss economics, globalisation and identity in his new memoir Home in the World. Editor Tom Clark talks to Amartya about watching famous historians Hugh Trevor-Roper and Eric Hobsbawm go head to head at Cambridge, the turmoil in Narendra Modi’s India, and the future of neoliberalism. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
