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The EI Podcast

Engelsberg Ideas

History

Government

Arts

Frequency: 1 episode/6d. Total Eps: 317

The EI Podcast brings you weekly conversations and audio essays from leading writers, thinkers and historians. Hosted by Alastair Benn and Paul Lay. Find the EI Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or search The EI Podcast wherever you get your podcasts.

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🇬🇧 Great Britain - history
11/05/2025
#98
🇬🇧 Great Britain - history
10/05/2025
#87
🇬🇧 Great Britain - history
03/05/2025
#93
🇬🇧 Great Britain - government
29/04/2025
#29
🇩🇪 Germany - government
29/04/2025
#97
🇬🇧 Great Britain - government
28/04/2025
#21
🇩🇪 Germany - government
28/04/2025
#82
🇬🇧 Great Britain - government
27/04/2025
#64
🇩🇪 Germany - government
27/04/2025
#57
🇬🇧 Great Britain - government
26/04/2025
#44

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https://axsonjohnsonfoundation.org/
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https://engelsbergideas.com/
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius
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https://twitter.com/Itwitius?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
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EI Weekly Listen — Sergey Radchenko on the past, present and future of Sino-Russian relations

vendredi 30 août 2024 • Duration 22:47

The tumultuous relationship between Red China and the Soviet Union hints at an uncertain future for the Sino-Russian partnership. Read by Helen Lloyd.

Image: Sino-Soviet propaganda poster. Credit: Album / Alamy Stock Photo

EI Portraits — Agnès Poirier on Anna de Noailles, bright star of the Belle Époque

jeudi 29 août 2024 • Duration 12:19

Socialite and literary pioneer - Anna de Noailles was a bright star in the firmament of the Parisian Belle Époque. Read by Sebastian Brown.

Image: De László's portrait of Anna de Noailles. Credit: Svintage Archive / Alamy Stock Photo

EI Weekly Listen — Francis J. Gavin on the terrible dilemmas of leadership in a thermonuclear world

vendredi 26 juillet 2024 • Duration 16:06

Nuclear weapons are likely to be around for a long time to come – and the predicaments they create for world leaders are unlikely to be easily solved. Read by Helen Lloyd.

Image: President John F. Kennedy with Robert McNamara during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Credit: RBM Vintage Images / Alamy Stock Photo

EI Talks... JFK

jeudi 14 septembre 2023 • Duration 38:45

JFK biographer Fredrik Logevall, in conversation with EI's Paul Lay and Iain Martin, discusses Kennedy's enduring and 'iconic' status, his claims to greatness, his style, and what his example offers for a divided America.

Image: During a campaign trip Senator John F. Kennedy greets a roadside crowd in Indiana. Credit: American Photo Archive / Alamy Stock Photo

EI Weekly Listen — Christopher Coker on the changing meaning of patriotism in war

vendredi 8 septembre 2023 • Duration 21:56

Dying to defend territory is an ancient human need - but war in the 21st century may not follow the script. Read by Leighton Pugh.

Image: English propaganda poster from the First World War showing a column of soldiers and civilians marching to war. Credit: Photo 12 / Alamy Stock Photo

EI Talks... Rugby Union

vendredi 8 septembre 2023 • Duration 32:07

In the latest episode of EI Talks... Paul Lay and Alastair Benn put together an idiot's guide to Rugby Union. The World Cup, the sport's showcase competition, kicks off tonight. The team gives their predictions.

Image: French Rugby poster from the 1930s. Credit: Lordprice Collection / Alamy Stock Photo

EI Weekly Listen — Remaking the moral case for capitalism by Iain Martin

vendredi 1 septembre 2023 • Duration 23:30

A defence of capitalism will have to rest first and foremost on an appeal to ethics, obligation, and duty. Read by Leighton Pugh.

EI Weekly Listen — Spoken history: the modern importance of indigenous cultures by John Hemming

vendredi 25 août 2023 • Duration 22:54

Our information-rich civilisation is not superior or inferior to the pre-literate world of Brazil's indigenous peoples, just different. Read by Leighton Pugh.

EI Weekly Listen — Mark Plotkin on the price of deforestation

vendredi 11 août 2023 • Duration 14:13

The destruction of rainforests threatens valuable cultures and reams of possible medical innovations. Read by Leighton Pugh.

Credit: Dennis Frates / Alamy Stock Photo

EI Weekly Listen — On the good society by David Goodhart

vendredi 4 août 2023 • Duration 24:37

A good society is one with a proper balance between the aptitudes of ‘head’, ‘hand’ and ‘heart’. The modern knowledge economy, however, has delivered higher and higher returns to the cognitive elite and reduced the relative pay and status of manual and caring jobs. Read by Leighton Pugh.