Episodes

  • EI Weekly Listen — Alexander McCall Smith on the writer's right to speak freely

    EI Weekly Listen — Alexander McCall Smith on the writer's right to speak freely
    Dec 20 2024
    While we may think we have moved beyond the censorship of the past, writers' artistic freedoms are still constrained. Read by Helen Lloyd.

    Engelsberg Ideas is funded by the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit.

    Image: Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence was the subject of a watershed obscenity trial. Credit: PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo.
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    18 mins
  • EI Talks... the Vietnam War with Fredrik Logevall

    EI Talks... the Vietnam War with Fredrik Logevall
    Dec 19 2024
    EI's Angus Reilly discusses the history and legacy of the Vietnam War with Fredrik Logevall, author of Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam.

    Engelsberg Ideas is funded by the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit. EI Talks... is produced by Alastair Benn. The sound engineer is Gareth Jones.

    Image: Photograph of American troops running towards a chopper during the Vietnam War. Credit: World History Archive / Alamy Stock Photo
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    32 mins
  • EI Weekly Listen — Kori Schake on the price of freedom

    EI Weekly Listen — Kori Schake on the price of freedom
    Dec 13 2024
    The arc of history only bends towards justice when people of goodwill grab hold of it and wrench it in the direction of justice. Read by Helen Lloyd.

    Image: The Freedom is Our Religion banner in Maidan Square, Kyiv. Credit: Ali Kerem Yucel / Alamy Stock Photo
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    18 mins
  • EI Portraits — Paul Lay on Thomas Gage, a man of unintended consequences

    EI Portraits — Paul Lay on Thomas Gage, a man of unintended consequences
    Dec 12 2024
    His intense faith led Thomas Gage to switch his religious allegiance during the tumultuous 17th century - he went on to have an enormous impact on Britain's colonial future. Read by Sebastian Brown.

    Engelsberg Ideas is funded by the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit.

    Image: Title Page from Thomas Gage's The English-American his travail by sea and land: or, A new survey of the West-India's (London 1648)
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    13 mins
  • EI Weekly Listen — David Butterfield on Epicurus, Lucretius, and the myth of mythlessness

    EI Weekly Listen — David Butterfield on Epicurus, Lucretius, and the myth of mythlessness
    Dec 6 2024
    Myths frame and tailor the past in a way that can ground and stabilise a community, however large or small. By situating them within the fabric of history, myths provide a sense of tradition and belonging to rally around. Read by Helen Lloyd.

    Engelsberg Ideas is funded by the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit.

    Image: A statue of Romulus and Remus on the Capitoline Hill in Rome. Credit: Russell Kord / Alamy Stock Photo
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    22 mins
  • EI Talks... the problem with VAR with Daisy Christodoulou

    EI Talks... the problem with VAR with Daisy Christodoulou
    Dec 5 2024
    EI's Alastair Benn discusses how technology is transforming the world of sport with Daisy Christodoulou, education expert and author of I Can't Stop Thinking About VAR, an eloquent examination of the use of the video assistant referee (VAR) system in football.

    Engelsberg Ideas is funded by the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit. EI Talks... is hosted by Paul Lay and Alastair Benn. The sound engineer is Gareth Jones.

    Image: Crystal Palace Fans hold up a banner to protest against VAR. Credit: Sipa US / Alamy Stock Photo
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    49 mins
  • EI Weekly Listen — Elisabeth Braw on the importance of understanding the West's adversaries

    EI Weekly Listen — Elisabeth Braw on the importance of understanding the West's adversaries
    Nov 29 2024
    With deterrence and compellence becoming more crucial than they have been in over three decades, understanding what makes foreign leaders tick is of the utmost importance. Read by Helen Lloyd.

    Image: Silhouettes of Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin. Credit: KLYONA / Alamy Stock Photo
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    19 mins
  • EI Portraits — Andrew Roberts on Brendan Bracken, ‘more Churchillian than Churchill’

    EI Portraits — Andrew Roberts on Brendan Bracken, ‘more Churchillian than Churchill’
    Nov 29 2024
    Andrew Roberts profiles Brendan Bracken, Winston Churchill's faithful and most trusted political adviser. Read by Sebastian Brown.

    Engelsberg Ideas is funded by the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit.

    Image: Winston Churchill leaving Downing Street with Brendan Bracken. Credit:: Fremantle / Alamy Stock Photo
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    11 mins