Podcasts about politics and economics

Mary Beard delivers her lecture ‘Women in Power’ at the British Museum.Read Mary Beard in the LRB: https://lrb.me/beardpodSign up to the LRB newsletter: https://lrb.me/acast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

John Lanchester on the implications of the UK’s EU referendum.Read John Lanchester in the LRB: https://lrb.me/lanchesterpodSign up to the LRB newsletter: https://lrb.me/acast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Frances Stonor Saunders examines the crossing of borders, in her LRB Winter Lecture delivered at the British Museum.Read Frances Stonor Saunders in the LRB: https://lrb.me/stonorsaundersodSign up to the LRB newsletter: https://lrb.me/acast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

James Meek asks how, in a time of austerity economics, we define the robber and the robbed, in his LRB Winter Lecture delivered at the British Museum.Read James Meek in the LRB: https://lrb.me/meekpodSign up to the LRB newsletter: https://lrb.me/acast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

David Runciman on Margaret Thatcher.Read David Runciman in the LRB: https://lrb.me/runcimanpodSign up to the LRB newsletter: https://lrb.me/acast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Chaohua Wang on justice in China.Read Chaohua Wang in the LRB: https://lrb.me/chaohuawangpodSign up to the LRB newsletter: https://lrb.me/acast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on the rise of the Houthis in Yemen.Read Gaith Abdul-Ahad: https://lrb.me/abdulahadytSign up to the LRB newsletter: https://lrb.me/acast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Seymour Hersh talks to Christian Lorentzen about his pieces for the LRB, collected in a new book, The Killing of Osama bin Laden.Read Seymour Hersh in the LRB: https://lrb.me/hershpodSign up to the LRB newsletter: https://lrb.me/acast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In his 2015 Winter Lecture, Tariq Ali argues that we are living in the twilight period of democracy.Read more Tariq Ali in the LRB: https://lrb.me/tariqalipodSign up to the LRB newsletter: https://lrb.me/acast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In her 2015 Winter Lecture, Marina Warner shows how higher education in the UK has been betrayed.Read more Marina Warner in the LRB: https://lrb.me/warnerpodSign up to the LRB newsletter: https://lrb.me/acast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Peter Pomerantsev on images and myths of Maidan.Read more by Peter Pomerantsev in the LRB: https://lrb.me/pomerantsevpodSign up to the LRB newsletter: https://lrb.me/acast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Owen Bennett-Jones on the messengers that paved the way for the Northern Ireland peace process.Read more by Owen Bennett-Jones in the LRB: https://lrb.me/bennettjonespodSign up to the LRB newsletter: https://lrb.me/acast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

James Meek on the British army’s eight years in Afghanistan.Read more James Meek in the LRB: https://lrb.me/meekpodSign up to the LRB newsletter: https://lrb.me/acast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Alan Bennett read this sermon on private educations before the University, King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, 1 June 2014.Read more Alan Bennett in the LRB: lrb.me/bennettpodSign up to the LRB newsletter: lrb.me/acast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Adam Shatz on the life and death of Juliano Mer-Khamis. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jacqueline Rose on what links Frank Kermode and Nigel Farage. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In August, as Australian politicians hung tough on asylum seekers, the Melbourne Writers Festival asked Jeremy Harding how far governments can patrol migration. With grateful acknowledgments to the Alan Missen Foundation and Liberty Victoria. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Patrick Cockburn explains why the Syrian war feels close to ending when it isn’t and how YouTube is changing war reporting. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

David Runciman on the impossibility and persistence of the US political system. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

James Meek wonders how Britain happened to sell off its electricity. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

John Lanchester writes about Marx at 193. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Neal Ascherson writes about Europe, its pasts and its possible future See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jeremy Harding discusses the politics of migration and the battle at Europe's borders. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.