Episode summary: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most influential economists from the age of Adam Smith and Thomas Malthus. Ricardo (1772 -1823) reputedly made his fortune at the Battle of Waterloo, and he made his lasting impact with his ideas on free trade. At a time when nations prefer...

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Episode summary: On January 6th, a mob stormed the US Capitol to try to stop the certification of the presidential election results. Many of the insurrectionists will be tracked down and charged with crimes, in part, because their cell phone placed them in the Capitol Building during the attack. The...

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Episode summary: Permaculture! Anarchy! Pagan Sex Dungeons! ToE’s Andrew Callaway revisits his 2017 tour of intentional communities for our five part Utopia Series. We are calling this one UTOPIA: The Callaway Cut

Episode summary: What can new technology tell us about our ancient past?

Episode summary: David and Helen talk to Chris Bickerton about how technocracy and populism have come together to create a new form of democratic politics. From New Labour to Macron’s En Marche, from Dominic Cummings to Five Star, we discuss what these different forms of politics have in common and...

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Episode summary: Back in the early 1990s, movie theaters weren’t that great. The auditoriums were cramped and narrow, and the screen was dim. But in 1995, the AMC Grand 24 in Dallas changed everything. It was the very first movie megaplex in the United States. This is the gigantic, neon, big-box sto...

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Episode summary: Join two brilliant writers – Rob Penn and Colin Tudge - to discuss how food shapes the world, what’s gone wrong, and how we can put it right. Robert Penn is a journalist, woodsman, lifelong cyclist and the author of several books including the Sunday Times bestsellers Slow Rise, It’...

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Episode summary: Davi Ottenheimer joins us to explain SOLID, a revolutionary data protocol created by inventor of the World Wide Web Sir Tim Berners Lee. Davi is a VP of Trust and Digital Ethics at Inrupt, the company implementing SOLID as both a user-facing technology and for large-scale infrastruc...

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Episode summary: A lot of people have asked me how I solve problems over the last few years. This is an interesting question because it’s one that I’ve struggled with at times as well. Some of the issues that we try to resolve can seem insurmountable given the obstacles that face us. However, thanks...

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