Intelligence Squared

Ideas shape the world. Intelligence Squared brings you the conversations that explain them. In every episode, we bring together leading thinkers, writers, scientists, policymakers and entrepreneurs, to challenge assumptions, test ideas and…

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Can Democracy Survive the Age of AI? With Jill Lepore 2026-08-28 · 42m
What John Berger Saw That We Still Don’t, with Tom Overton 2026-08-25 · 42m
Is Tech Making Our Kids Less Capable? With Dr Jared Cooney Horvath 2026-08-23 · 33m
Is Ukraine’s Culture Worth Fighting For? With Charlotte Higgins 2026-08-22 · 38m
How George Michael Changed Music Forever, with Sathnam Sanghera (Part Two) 2026-08-20 · 42m
How George Michael Changed Music Forever, with Sathnam Sanghera (Part One) 2026-08-18 · 37m
Spielberg, Coppola and Lucas: The Remaking of Modern Cinema, With Paul Fischer 2026-08-16 · 52m
Colm Tóibín on Stories of Exile (Part Two) 2026-08-15 · 37m
Colm Tóibín on Stories of Exile (Part One) 2026-08-13 · 39m
Uncovering the Epstein Story, with Emily Maitlis and Amy Wallace (Part Two) 2026-08-11 · 35m
Uncovering the Epstein Story, with Emily Maitlis and Amy Wallace (Part One) 2026-08-09 · 40m
Is the Algorithm Destroying Taste? With Polyester Editor-In-Chief Ione Gamble 2026-08-08 · 30m
How Do Our Sibling Relationships Shape Us? With Catherine Carr 2026-08-06 · 49m
Can the US Survive Donald Trump? With Pod Save the US’ Ben Rhodes (Part Two) 2026-08-04 · 33m
Can the US Survive Donald Trump? With Pod Save the US’ Ben Rhodes (Part One) 2026-08-02 · 39m
What Everyone Gets Wrong About Iran, with Clarissa Ward and Lyse Doucet (Part Two) 2026-08-01 · 41m
What Everyone Gets Wrong About Iran, with Clarissa Ward and Lyse Doucet (Part One)(Part One) 2026-07-30 · 34m
Hotels with History | The Adlon, Berlin 2026-07-28 · 35m
How Has Forensic Science Transformed Criminal Justice? With Sue Black 2026-07-26 · 44m
Should We Stop Catastrophising About AI? With Eleanor Drage and Carl Miller 2026-07-25 · 42m
The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook, with Robert Peston (Part Two) 2026-07-23 · 37m
The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook, with Robert Peston (Part One) 2026-07-22 · 35m
How Sex Scenes in Film Can Reshape Real Intimacy, With Intimacy Coordinator Ita O’Brien 2026-07-20 · 40m
Olivia Laing on Art, Solitude, and The Lonely City at 10 (Part Two) 2026-07-18 · 34m
Olivia Laing on Art, Solitude, and The Lonely City at 10 (Part One) 2026-07-16 · 39m
How Did World War II Create Modern Asia? With Professor Hans van de Ven 2026-07-14 · 34m
An Evening with Maggie O’Farrell: Land (Part Two) 2026-07-12 · 38m
An Evening with Maggie O’Farrell: Land (Part One) 2026-07-11 · 35m
Can We Make the Internet Safe for Children? With Baroness Beeban Kidron 2026-07-10 · 54m
Hotel with History | Copacabana Palace, Rio De Janeiro 2026-07-08 · 33m
Andrew Ross Sorkin and Zanny Minton Beddoes on Markets, Crashes and The Future of The Global Economy (Part Two) 2026-07-07 · 37m
Andrew Ross Sorkin and Zanny Minton Beddoes on Markets, Crashes and The Future of The Global Economy (Part One) 2026-07-05 · 34m
Is Our Justice System Failing Women? With Barrister Charlotte Proudman 2026-07-04 · 40m
How Should We Prepare for the Unknown? With Statistician David Spiegelhalter 2026-07-02 · 45m
Was George Forster the Enlightenment’s Lost Visionary? With Andrea Wulf 2026-06-30 · 43m
Reasons for Hope in Turbulent Times, with Rebecca Solnit 2026-06-28 · 54m
The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook: Leadership Special, with Francine Lacqua (Part Two) 2026-06-27 · 38m
The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook: Leadership Special, with Francine Lacqua (Part One) 2026-06-25 · 36m
How Did the Americas Transform Renaissance England? With Lauren Working 2026-06-23 · 37m
Who Really Blew Up the Nord Stream Pipeline? With Bojan Pancevski 2026-06-21 · 38m
What Can Europe's Borderlands Tell Us About Its Future? With Hannah Lucinda Smith 2026-06-20 · 65m
Hotels with History | Waldorf Astoria, New York 2026-06-18 · 32m
Life and Death in the KGB, with The Rest is Classified’s Gordon Corera (Part Two) 2026-06-16 · 34m
Life and Death in the KGB, with The Rest is Classified’s Gordon Corera (Part One) 2026-06-14 · 36m
How Will a New Era of Drugs Shape Our World? With Kojo Koram 2026-06-13 · 43m
The Age of Intelligence: Live in Partnership with IBM 2026-06-11 · 59m
How Do Hormones Shape the Way We Feel, Think and Age? With Dr Saira Hameed 2026-06-09 · 44m
Why Does It Sometimes Pay to Be a Chicken? With Professor Michael Wooldridge 2026-06-07 · 43m
How does DNA Shape Our World? With Professor Turi King 2026-06-06 · 52m
Do We Have The Right To Die? With Lady Hale and Rowan Williams (Part Two) 2026-06-04 · 37m
Do We Have The Right To Die? With Lady Hale and Rowan Williams (Part One) 2026-06-03 · 34m
An Evening with Douglas Stuart (Part Two) 2026-05-31 · 35m
An Evening with Douglas Stuart (Part One) 2026-05-31 · 39m
How To Win a Trade War, with Soumaya Keynes and Chad Bown 2026-05-28 · 36m
How To Kill A Language, with Sophia Smith Galer (Part Two) 2026-05-26 · 36m
How To Kill A Language, with Sophia Smith Galer (Part One) 2026-05-24 · 35m
The Secret Life of Our Organs and How They Keep us Healthy, with Dr Giulia Enders 2026-05-23 · 41m
Chasing Aliens, with Jon Ronson and Daniel Lavelle (Part Two) 2026-05-21 · 36m
Chasing Aliens, with Jon Ronson and Daniel Lavelle (Part One) 2026-05-19 · 36m
Has Far-Right Politics Entered The Mainstream in the UK? With Daniel Trilling 2026-05-17 · 48m
Love, Loss and Mourning Paul Auster, with Siri Hustvedt 2026-05-16 · 40m
What Would Happen If We Met Aliens? With Neil deGrasse Tyson 2026-05-15 · 48m
London Falling: Patrick Radden Keefe on How Money, Power and Corruption Shape Our City, with Emily Maitlis (Part Two) 2026-05-12 · 33m
London Falling: Patrick Radden Keefe on How Money, Power and Corruption Shape Our City, with Emily Maitlis (Part One) 2026-05-10 · 34m
What Do We Ask Google, and What Does It Tell Us About Human Nature? With Simon Rogers 2026-05-09 · 38m
How Is Predictive AI Shaping Our World? With AI Philosopher Carissa Véliz 2026-05-07 · 38m
Weimar and Hitler: How did fascism take hold in Germany’s historic town? With Katja Hoyer 2026-05-06 · 48m
An Evening with Kae Tempest (Part Two) 2026-05-03 · 48m
An Evening with Kae Tempest (Part One) 2026-05-02 · 45m
What Will Trigger the Next World War? With Peter Apps 2026-05-01 · 32m
Lena Dunham: Famesick, with Dolly Alderton (Part Two) 2026-04-28 · 44m
Lena Dunham: Famesick, with Dolly Alderton (Part One) 2026-04-26 · 48m
The Age of Growth: Live in Partnership with IBM 2026-04-25 · 62m
Demis Hassabis and Sebastian Mallaby on The Quest for Artificial General Intelligence (Part Two) 2026-04-21 · 33m
Demis Hassabis and Sebastian Mallaby on The Quest for Artificial General Intelligence (Part One) 2026-04-19 · 38m
How Does Chemistry Shape our World? With Professor Dame Ijeoma Uchegbu 2026-04-18 · 44m
Why Did Elite Cambridge Graduates Become Soviet Spies? Revisiting the Cambridge Five, with Antonia Senior 2026-04-16 · 41m
How Will the Climate Crisis Reshape Global Politics? With Former Diplomat and Author, Arthur Snell 2026-04-14 · 50m
Is There a Crisis of Overdiagnosis in Modern Medicine? With Dr Suzanne O’Sullivan 2026-04-12 · 48m
How Has Translation Transformed Shakespeare? With Daniel Hahn 2026-04-11 · 55m
Should You Be Talking To AI? with Jamie Bartlett 2026-04-09 · 44m
Who Are Renoir’s Mystery Girls? With Catherine Ostler 2026-04-07 · 43m
Stalin vs Trotsky: The Assassination That Changed History, with Josh Ireland 2026-04-05 · 38m
Can Discomfort Be the Key to a Better Life? With Ken Rideout 2026-04-04 · 37m
How and Why did Sexual Reproduction Evolve on our Planet? With Dr Lixing Sun 2026-04-02 · 39m
Hungry for Life! An Evening with Prue Leith (Part Two) 2026-03-31 · 34m
Hungry for Life! An Evening with Prue Leith (Part One) 2026-03-30 · 34m
How deeply was the British Crown involved in the transatlantic slave trade? With author of The Crown’s Silence, Brooke Newman 2026-03-29 · 48m
The Specialist | The Coin Worth More Than Its Weight in Gold, with Selby Kiffer and David Tripp 2026-03-28 · 18m
Why Are Populists Winning? With Liam Byrne and Will Hutton 2026-03-27 · 54m
How To Overcome Trauma, With Psychotherapist Dr Gwen Adshead (Part Two) 2026-03-25 · 34m
How To Overcome Trauma, With Psychotherapist Dr Gwen Adshead (Part One) 2026-03-23 · 39m
How Has Living With Animals Shaped Our Brains? With Michael Bond 2026-03-22 · 43m
The Specialist | From Canvas to Canon: Joan Mitchell’s King of Spades, with Courtney Kremers 2026-03-21 · 15m
Why Are Ancient Myths Resurfacing in Modern Britain? With Zakia Sewell 2026-03-20 · 42m
Sex, Gender and Christianity: A 3,000 Year History, with Diarmaid MacCulloch and Mary Beard (Part Two) 2026-03-18 · 38m
Sex, Gender and Christianity: A 3,000 Year History, with Diarmaid MacCulloch and Mary Beard (Part One) 2026-03-16 · 35m
Is the Russia–Ukraine War a Failure of Strategy? With Lawrence Freedman 2026-03-15 · 51m
What Is Really at Stake at the North Pole? With Neil Shea 2026-03-13 · 48m
Sotheby's Talks | How Do Objects Achieve Iconic Status, with Grayson Perry and Xa Sturgis 2026-03-11 · 46m
Fiona Hill: The World in 2026 (Part Two) 2026-03-09 · 34m
Fiona Hill: The World in 2026 (Part One) 2026-03-08 · 36m
How has American hubris shaped Iran? With Scott Anderson 2026-03-06 · 34m
What Does It Take to Run Goldman Sachs During a Meltdown? With Former CEO Lloyd Blankfein 2026-03-04 · 45m
CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Trump, Iran and the World in 2026 (Part Two) 2026-03-02 · 39m
CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Trump, Iran and the World in 2026 (Part One) 2026-03-01 · 38m
Fatima Bhutto on Grief, Survival, and the Life-Affirming Love of Canine Companions 2026-02-27 · 39m
Are Lithium and Cobalt the New Oil? The Elements of Power, with Nicolas Niarchos 2026-02-25 · 37m
The New Yorker’s Jon Lee Anderson on Afghanistan: An American Catastrophe (Part Two) 2026-02-23 · 40m
The New Yorker’s Jon Lee Anderson on Afghanistan: An American Catastrophe (Part One) 2026-02-22 · 35m
The Specialist | Jackie O's Faux Pearls, with Frank Everett 2026-02-21 · 14m
Could Silicon Valley Billionaires Cure Aging? With Aleks Krotoski 2026-02-20 · 56m
Will AI Design New Organisms From Scratch? With Adrian Woolfson 2026-02-18 · 45m
Is it Game Over for Keir Starmer? Martin Wolf for The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook 2026 (Part Two) 2026-02-16 · 39m
Is it Game Over for Keir Starmer? Martin Wolf for The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook 2026 (Part One) 2026-02-15 · 37m
Fascism, Exile, and Redefining Home in the 21st Century, with Ece Temelkuran 2026-02-13 · 44m
Why Changing How You Breathe Can Transform Your Health, with James Nestor 2026-02-11 · 39m
The Trillion Dollar Battle For Your Attention, with Peter Schmidt and D. Graham Burnett 2026-02-09 · 49m
Sir Sajid Javid – Lessons From the Front Bench (Part Two) 2026-02-08 · 36m
Sir Sajid Javid – Lessons From the Front Bench (Part One) 2026-02-06 · 41m
Can Water Shape Our Future? 2026-02-04 · 30m
Julian Barnes in conversation with Ian McEwan (Part Two) 2026-02-03 · 43m
Julian Barnes in conversation with Ian McEwan (Part One) 2026-02-02 · 39m
Why Can’t We Stop Money Laundering? With Oliver Bullough 2026-02-01 · 42m
Is the Arctic the World’s Next War Zone? With Kenneth R. Rosen 2026-01-30 · 51m
Implementing and scaling AI agents in business 2026-01-29 · 35m
Happy Mind, Happy Life, with Dr Rangan Chatterjee 2026-01-28 · 87m
Can Britain Become an AI Superpower? The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook (Part Two) 2026-01-26 · 35m
Can Britain Become an AI Superpower? The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook (Part One) 2026-01-25 · 36m
How To Take the Pressure Off and Live Well, with Claudia Hammond (Part Two) 2026-01-23 · 39m
How To Take the Pressure Off and Live Well, with Claudia Hammond (Part One) 2026-01-21 · 35m
Is Greece Becoming the New Borderland Between East and West? With Sean Matthews 2026-01-19 · 43m
An Evening with Alan Davies (Part Two) 2026-01-18 · 36m
An Evening with Alan Davies (Part One) 2026-01-16 · 39m
How is Artificial Intelligence Transforming our Relationships? With James Muldoon 2026-01-14 · 48m
Julia Ioffe and Clarissa Ward on Putin, Russia and the Women Fighting For A Better Future (Part Two) 2026-01-12 · 37m
Julia Ioffe and Clarissa Ward on Putin, Russia and the Women Fighting For A Better Future (Part One) 2026-01-11 · 39m
Jonathan Freedland on The Secret Rebels who Defied Hitler (Part Two) 2026-01-09 · 34m
Jonathan Freedland on The Secret Rebels who Defied Hitler (Part One) 2026-01-07 · 36m
The Remarkable True Story of The Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970’s, with Jason Burke (Part Two) 2026-01-05 · 36m
The Remarkable True Story of The Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970’s, with Jason Burke (Part One) 2026-01-04 · 41m
How Tech Platforms Threaten Our Future, With Former White House Advisor Tim Wu (Part Two) 2026-01-02 · 45m
How Tech Platforms Threaten Our Future, With Former White House Advisor Tim Wu (Part One) 2025-12-31 · 36m
How Philosophy Explains Our World, with Julian Baggini (Part Two) 2025-12-29 · 36m
How Philosophy Explains Our World, with Julian Baggini (Part One) 2025-12-28 · 39m
Michael Rosen on Hope, Happiness and Finding Joy in the Small Things (Part Two) 2025-12-26 · 42m
Michael Rosen on Hope, Happiness and Finding Joy in the Small Things (Part One) 2025-12-24 · 34m
Women’s Prize-winner Rachel Clarke in conversation with Rob Delaney (Part Two) 2025-12-22 · 39m
Women’s Prize-winner Rachel Clarke in conversation with Rob Delaney (Part One) 2025-12-21 · 37m
The Specialist | The Anonymous Altarpiece: Decoding a Renaissance Enigma, with Alex Bell 2025-12-20 · 14m
Have We Finally Solved The Mystery of Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring? With Andrew Graham-Dixon 2025-12-19 · 49m
Everything Starts With Water 2025-12-17 · 42m
Putin, The Soviet Union and The Rise of Russian Imperialism, with Mikhail Zygar (Part Two) 2025-12-15 · 35m
Putin, The Soviet Union and The Rise of Russian Imperialism, with Mikhail Zygar (Part One) 2025-12-14 · 34m
The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook with Jeremy Hunt 2025-12-12 · 88m
Rory Stewart on Trump, Nationalism and The Value of Rural Life (Part Two) 2025-12-12 · 34m
Rory Stewart on Trump, Nationalism and The Value of Rural Life (Part One) 2025-12-10 · 35m
Is Alex Karp the Philosopher of Silicon Valley? With Michael Steinberger 2025-12-08 · 51m
The Courage to Lead, with Sanna Marin, Former Prime Minister of Finland (Part Two) 2025-12-07 · 35m
The Courage to Lead, with Sanna Marin, Former Prime Minister of Finland (Part One) 2025-12-05 · 34m
Trump, Markets and The Greatest Crash in U.S. History, with Andrew Ross Sorkin (Part Two) 2025-12-03 · 38m
Trump, Markets and The Greatest Crash in U.S. History, with Andrew Ross Sorkin (Part One) 2025-12-01 · 39m
The Future of Prostate Cancer Care 2025-11-30 · 30m
The Specialist | Virgil Abloh’s Reimagining of the Iconic Nike Air Force 1 for Louis Vuitton, with Brahm Wachter 2025-11-29 · 14m
Why Do Authoritarians Want To Control The News? With Martin Moore 2025-11-28 · 37m
What Does Test Cricket Reveal About the Legacy of Empire? With Tim Wigmore 2025-11-26 · 43m
Does modern medicine need to drop the distinction between mental and physical health? With Professor Edward Bullmore 2025-11-24 · 48m
Is Vivaldi Still the Soundtrack of the Seasons? With Dr Hannah French 2025-11-23 · 62m
What Stories Are Written in The Rock Beneath Us? With Dr Anjana Khatwa 2025-11-21 · 33m
Debate: Sanctions Don’t Work as a Tool of Foreign Policy 2025-11-19 · 84m
How does a nation’s language shape its identity? Hannah Kent on her year in Iceland 2025-11-17 · 46m
How To Lose Your Country, with Ece Temelkuran (Part Two) 2025-11-16 · 33m
How To Lose Your Country, with Ece Temelkuran (Part One) 2025-11-14 · 37m
Why Are We So Addicted to Everything? With Nicklas Brendborg 2025-11-12 · 47m
Sotheby’s Talks | The Leonard A. Lauder Collection: Klimt and the Art of Connoisseurship 2025-11-10 · 44m
Is This the Twilight of American Supremacy? Simon Jenkins on Why the World Needs the USA 2025-11-09 · 34m
Olivia Laing on Passion and Heartbreak in the Golden Age of New Italian Cinema 2025-11-07 · 30m
Salman Rushdie on Mortality, Memory and The Eleventh Hour 2025-11-05 · 43m
What was the Iranian Revolution really about? With Scott Anderson 2025-11-03 · 34m
The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook with Jeremy Hunt (Part Two) 2025-11-02 · 37m
The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook with Jeremy Hunt (Part One) 2025-10-31 · 36m
What Are The Essentials for Reimagining Work with AI Agents? 2025-10-29 · 49m
The Age of the Strongman: Understanding Trump, with Anne Applebaum (Part Two) 2025-10-27 · 33m
The Age of the Strongman: Understanding Trump, with Anne Applebaum (Part One) 2025-10-25 · 38m
Lyse Doucet on Reporting from the Frontlines (Part Two) 2025-10-23 · 39m
Lyse Doucet on Reporting from the Frontlines (Part One) 2025-10-21 · 36m
An Evening with Dan Jones on War, Plague and Lion Hearts (Part Two) 2025-10-19 · 46m
An Evening with Dan Jones on War, Plague and Lion Hearts (Part One) 2025-10-19 · 38m
Why Does It Feel Like Everything is Getting Worse? With Cory Doctorow 2025-10-17 · 42m
Can the West Hold Together? Lessons from WWII with Tim Bouverie and Michael Gove (Part Two) 2025-10-14 · 38m
Can the West Hold Together? Lessons from WWII with Tim Bouverie and Michael Gove (Part One) 2025-10-12 · 32m
How Will the US Fight China? With Franz-Stefan Gady 2025-10-11 · 68m
The Specialist | The Most Valuable Car in the World, with Gord Duff And Marcus Breitschwerdt 2025-10-10 · 17m
What Can Criminal Psychology Teach Us About Climate Change? With Julia Shaw 2025-10-09 · 44m
Anthony Scaramucci on Trump and the Threat to American Democracy (Part Two) 2025-10-07 · 32m
Anthony Scaramucci on Trump and the Threat to American Democracy (Part One) 2025-10-05 · 36m
The Thick of It: 20 Years On, with Armando Iannucci, Peter Capaldi, Chris Addison and Rebecca Front (Part Two) 2025-10-04 · 38m
The Thick of It: 20 Years On, with Armando Iannucci, Peter Capaldi, Chris Addison and Rebecca Front (Part One) 2025-10-03 · 37m
Is AI About to Automate War? With Anthony King 2025-09-30 · 65m
Sir Tim Berners-Lee on the Internet, AI and the Future of Humanity (Part Two) 2025-09-28 · 36m
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