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Weekly audio essays from leading experts. Read by Leighton Pugh.
13: China's great uncoupling by Jonathan Fenby
Beijing wants to foster a world where Chinese standards replace those of the post-1945 US-led system. Read by Leighton Pugh.
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12: Covid-19 and the moral case for personal judgement by David Seedhouse
The tension between independence and compliance is everywhere in society – but in medicine, reason must come before rules. Read by Leighton Pugh.
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12: Meet the Zoomer generation by Matthew Goodwin
This period of turbulence could turn today's twenty-somethings into the leaders of a new liberal revolution. Read by Leighton Pugh.
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23:1528/04/2023
11: New Turkey's old politics by Tim Marshall
As a result of President Erdogan's embrace of two interlinked geopolitical concepts, 'Strategic Depth' and 'Blue Homeland', Turkey faces international isolation. Read by Leighton Pugh.
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10: Continuity Thatcher: rescuing a complex leader from historical cliché by Graham Stewart
To argue that Margaret Thatcher attacked the post-war dream is to caricature, not illuminate, her importance to British history. Read by Leighton Pugh.
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27:2728/04/2023
9: Challenging the 'Great Reset' theory of pandemics by Mark Honigsbaum
Thucydides saw plague as a disease of the ‘body politic’ – and an opportunity to improve the health of society. History shows that pandemics have a way of disrupting our assumptions about medical and social progress. Read by Leighton Pugh.
Image: A 19th-century color lithograph, with the caption 'Cholera Tramples the Victor and the Vanquish'd Both,' depicts a giant skeleton trampling over a battlefield. Credit: Bettmann
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8: The changing fate of the English country house by Clive Aslet
Amid the tumult of the 1970s, it appeared the traditional country house had gone into irreversible decline - but it was too early to write it off. Read by Leighton Pugh.
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7: Geopolitics of a pandemic by Helen Thompson
The Covid-19 crisis has accentuated all the geopolitical fault lines of the past decade. Read by Leighton Pugh.
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6: A government of laws by Philip Bobbitt
The constitutional order is changing as citizens become alienated and demand more say. Americans must take care that their habits of law are not swept away. Read by Leighton Pugh.
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5: This crisis has the capacity to be apocalyptic by Peter Frankopan
Covid-19 heralds the end of our interconnected world. We'll need wise leaders to navigate what comes next. Read by Leighton Pugh.
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4: Remembering London's last Great Plague by Vanessa Harding
London's response to its last plague epidemic involved close collaboration between crown, City and parish. Read by Leighton Pugh.
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3: John Hughes and the making and unmaking of the American Dream by Johan Hakelius
The films of John Hughes updated the American Dream for a new generation, and his complex legacy helps us understand what went so wrong. Read by Leighton Pugh.
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14:5128/04/2023
2: Why applied history matters by Iskander Rehman
Forget the seduction of grand theories and presentist moral judgments. To learn the lessons of the past, the great foreign policy analysts of our age must rediscover the art of historical discernment. Read by Leighton Pugh.
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1: Survival lessons from Ancient Rome by Gillian Clark
The Romans have so much to teach us about what it means to live in a society in crisis. Read by Leighton Pugh.
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