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LSE Film and Audio Team
The London School of Economics and Political Science public events podcast series is a platform for thought, ideas and lively debate where you can hear from some of the world's leading thinkers. Listen to more than 200 new episodes every year.
Episodes
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May 14, 2024 • 60min
Data grab: the new colonialism of big tech and how to fight back
The book launch of Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back

May 13, 2024 • 60min
Are universities creating a new political divide?
Our panel explore large and growing gap between highly educated university graduates and those whose education finished at school.

May 13, 2024 • 35min
Will the US remain the world’s superpower?
The idea of an America in decline has gained traction in recent years and has, of course, been capitalized on by President Trump. Is America’s ‘greatness’ under threat?

May 9, 2024 • 60min
The bankers' new clothes: what's wrong with banking and what to do about it
Professor Anat Admati discusses her latest book, The Bankers' New Clothes: What's Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It.

May 7, 2024 • 60min
Human rights: the case for the defence
Baroness Chakrabarti, delivers this year’s annual Wollstonecraft Society Lecture on her latest book, Human Rights: The Case for the Defence, which explains why human rights are essential for our future.

May 2, 2024 • 60min
Why women won
2023 Nobel Prize in Economics winner, Claudia Goldin delivers the first of two Economica-Coase lectures on US women obtaining legal rights equal to men's decades after winning the right to vote.

May 2, 2024 • 60min
Addressing climate inequality
This event presents new thinking on how to design and finance loss and damage funds as a result of climate change.

May 1, 2024 • 60min
Lessons for monetary policy from the latest inflationary-disinflationary episode
Governor Hernández de Cos addresses the lessons learned so far from the latest inflationary-disinflationary episode in the euro area and the European Central Bank’s response to it.

Apr 30, 2024 • 60min
Is the risk of nuclear war increasing?
As Nuclear security issues and risks are back on the international agenda, our panel examine the steps that can be taken to reduce them.

Apr 29, 2024 • 60min
This time no mistakes
Political economist, journalist, and bestselling author, Will Hutton discusses his new book, This Time No Mistakes in which he shows how the right and left have gone wrong over the course of the last century – and how we can remake a better Britain.


