EI's Paul Lay is joined by technology analyst Dan Wang to discuss how China has engineered its way to global power status. 

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Bill Emmott profiles Lafcadio Hearn, the Anglo-Irish-Greek foreign correspondent who made Japan his home. Read by Leighton Pugh.

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Bestselling author Andrew Ross Sorkin discusses his new book, 1929: The Inside Story of The Greatest Crash in Wall Street History, with EI's Iain Martin.

Image: The Wall Street financial crash of 1929, with a city businessman speculator trying to sell his car for $100 cash, having lost all on the stock market. Credit: Alamy/ Shawshots.

Historian Damian Valdez on international order's 19th-century origins. Read by Leighton Pugh.

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Critic Malcolm Forbes investigates Graham Greene's troubled childhood. Read by Leighton Pugh.

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Historian Luka Ivan Jukic explores how Stalin hijacked the Slavic cause to forge the Soviet Empire. Read by Leighton Pugh.

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Aaron MacLean, host of the School of War podcast, on AI's threat to the life of the mind. Read by Leighton Pugh.

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Alastair Benn on the magic of Mick Herron’s Slough House series.

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EI's Paul Lay discusses a world order in flux with Stephen Kotkin, historian and biographer of Stalin.

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Why do people the world over enjoy listening to songs sung in French? Critic Muriel Zagha illuminates the living tradition of French chanson. 

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