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- Yesterday1h 1m
John Bew on British Realpolitik
John Bew joins Jack Dickens to discuss how the British tradition of statecraft grappled with the postwar world. What lessons does it offer today?Image: Ernest Bevin as Foreign Secretary in 1947. Credit: Alamy
- 1 weeks ago45 min
Europe: can the centre hold?
In a new age of great-power rivalry, Europe appears caught between three main challengers: the US, China and Russia. Dimitar Bechev sits down with Jack Dickens to discuss the continent’s volatile future and how it might recover some of its former strength.Image credit: Alamy
- 2 weeks ago34 min
The Fifth Republic: order or chaos?
France is in some ways one of Europe’s most conservative societies, and yet revolutionary violence is never far from the surface. Muriel Zagha joins Alastair Benn to discuss this month’s riots and what they mean for next year’s presidential election.Image: ‘Liberty Leading the People’ by Eugene Delacroix (1830). Credit: Alamy
- 3 weeks ago1h 9m
The deep roots of Anglo-German relations
Britain and Germany have shared royal dynasties, forged pragmatic alliances, exchanged huge flows of capital and fought terrible wars against each other. In his new book, ‘Great Powers: A History of Britain and Germany’, Jan Rüger documents that symbiotic relationship’s twists and turns over the past 300 years.Image: An anti-German British propaganda poster from the First World War. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
- Oct 8, 202645 min
Napoleon’s nest of vipers
Napoleon appointed a total of 26 Marshals between 1804 and 1815, and they became crucial to his military success. Yet only two of them fought alongside him at the Battle of Waterloo. Andrew Roberts sits down with Paul Lay to discuss his new book, ‘Napoleon and his Marshals’.Image: Napoleon near Borodino, by Vasily Vereshchagin (1897). Credit: Wikimedia Commons
- Oct 1, 202638 min
Russia’s war on Ukrainian science
Earlier this week, a Russian drone strike hit the National Academy of Sciences in central Kyiv, bringing terror to the historic centre of Ukraine’s capital and damaging a symbol of national independence. Paul Josephson speaks to Jack Dickens about why Vladimir Putin is targeting Ukraine’s leading research institutes.Image: The Soviet-era Duga radar near Chernobyl, Ukraine. Credit: Alamy
- Sep 24, 202642 min
Space and the new clash of civilisations
Earlier this month, the US confirmed for the first time that it had deployed a space weapon in Earth’s orbit. John B. Sheldon and Jack Dickens discuss the fight for extraterrestrial supremacy. Image: A mural of a Soviet-era cosmonaut in Ukraine. Credit: Alamy
- Sep 17, 202659 min
Reinventing Disraeli
What did Benjamin Disraeli believe and why is he still invoked as a prophet of modern conservatism? Emily Jones speaks to Paul Lay about her new book, ‘The Disraeli Myth: The Making of a Conservative Tradition’.Image: Portrait of Benjamin Disraeli, c.1860. Credit: Alamy
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