The Prospect Podcast

By Prospect Magazine

The brightest minds discussing the ideas that matter most in politics, society and culture.

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September 05, 2023 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.
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August 29, 2023 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.
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August 22, 2023 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.
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August 16, 2023 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.
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August 08, 2023 Can AI think?
In this week’s episode, managing editor Alex Dean speaks to science writer Philip Ball on artificial intelligence: what it is, how it works and how it might even change our perception of what it means to have a mind.
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31min
August 01, 2023 Bill Keller: The Americanisation of British prisons
Is the British criminal justice system heading towards the same level of dysfunction as its US counterpart? Former executive editor of the New York Times, Bill Keller, reports back to Alan Rusbridger, after visiting prisons across the UK for a feature in the latest issue of Prospect.
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July 26, 2023 Matthew d'Ancona: Oppenheimer and nuclear culture
Christopher Nolan's new film inspires Prospect's arts and books editor Peter Hoskin and contributing editor Matthew d'Ancona to consider how the atomic bomb has impacted our culture. They discuss 'Oppenheimer' and the other books, films and video games that have grappled with the events of August 1945.

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July 19, 2023 Kate Raworth and Sam Fankhauser: Is green growth the future?
For the latest issue of Prospect, we asked Sam Fankhauser, professor of climate change economics at the University of Oxford, and Kate Raworth, author of ‘Doughnut Economics’, how to build an economy that supports rather than damages nature and the climate.This episode of the Prospect Podcast—hosted by deputy editor Ellen Halliday—is an audio extract from their conversation.

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July 12, 2023 Stella Assange: Why my husband Julian must be freed
Lawyer and human rights defender Stella Assange joins Alan Rusbridger to discuss the US government's attempts to extradite her husband Julian, his imprisonment in HMP Belmarsh, her recent meeting with the Pope and the threat to journalism posed by secrecy laws.

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July 07, 2023 The Rule of Law: How will AI affect justice?
Barristers Richard Hermer QC and Zoe McCallum from Matrix Chambers are joined by Dr Tim Lillicrap, research director at Google DeepMind to discuss artificial Intelligence and the future of justice.
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