The Prospect Podcast

By Prospect Magazine

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

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October 11, 2023 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.
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October 04, 2023 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.
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September 27, 2023 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.
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September 20, 2023 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.
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September 12, 2023 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.
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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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