The EI Podcast

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The EI Podcast brings you weekly conversations and audio essays from leading writers, thinkers and historians. Hosted by Alastair Benn, Jack Dickens and Paul Lay. Find the EI Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or search The EI Podcast wherever you get your podcasts.

  1. 3日前

    Reinventing Disraeli

    What did Benjamin Disraeli believe and why is he still invoked as a prophet of modern conservatism? Emily Jones speaks to Paul Lay about her new book, ‘The Disraeli Myth: The Making of a Conservative Tradition’. Image: Portrait of Benjamin Disraeli, c.1860. Credit: Alamy

    Reinventing Disraeli

  2. 9月10日

    The scramble for the Middle East

    Simon Sebag Montefiore speaks to Jack Dickens about his new book, ‘The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East’.  Image: British troops on parade at Jaffa Gate after seizing military control of the region from the Ottoman Empire (1917). Credit: Wikimedia Commons

    The scramble for the Middle East

  3. 9月3日

    The novel in Britain: from cover to cover

    Philip Hensher speaks to Alastair Benn about his new book, ‘A History of the Novel in Britain’, a stylish and very personal survey of a great tradition. Image: Portrait of Algernon Talmage circa 1915, by Hilda Fearon. Credit: Alamy

    The novel in Britain: from cover to cover

  4. 8月27日

    Journeys in Europe’s grey zone

    Hannah Lucinda Smith speaks to Caitlin Allen about her new book, ‘Hinterlands: Journeys through Europe’s Unfinished Frontiers’. Image: United Nations Buffer Zone near the ghost town resort of Varosha, Famagusta, Cyprus. Credit: Alamy

    Journeys in Europe’s grey zone

  5. 8月20日

    Machiavelli still matters

    Stephen Bowd speaks to Paul Lay about why, 500 years after his death, Niccolò Machiavelli remains one of the world’s most vital political philosophers. Image: Portrait of Niccolò Machiavelli (1570). Credit: Alamy

    Machiavelli still matters

  6. 8月13日

    The entire history of cinema in one shot

    Film critic David Thomson speaks to Paul Lay about his new book, ‘A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of the Movies’.  Image: A sign advertises the opening of the Hollywoodland housing development in the hills overlooking Los Angeles. Credit: Alamy

    The entire history of cinema in one shot

  7. 8月6日

    America’s universal document: a curious history

    Marking 250 years since the Declaration of Independence, Michael Auslin speaks to Paul Lay about the document’s powerful yet often strange afterlife. From Philadelphia in 1776, through the Civil War, the Gilded Age, both World Wars and the Cold War, America’s founding document has been a perennial symbol of hope.  Image: An illustration from ‘Columbia's Courtship: A Picture History of the United States in Twelve Emblematic Designs in Color with Accompanying Verses’ by Walter Crane (1983). Credit: Alamy

    America’s universal document: a curious history

  8. 7月30日

    The alien world of Homer’s Odyssey

    What does Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of ‘The Odyssey’ have in common with Homer’s poem? Classicist and actor Orlando Gibbs speaks to Alastair Benn about the strangeness of this ancient epic, which depicts a moral world far removed from Nolan’s secular and post-Christian worldview, and discusses whether its popularity will lead to a renewed interest in the classical world. Image: Odysseus and the Sirens, represented on an ancient Greek vase. Credit: Alamy

    The alien world of Homer’s Odyssey
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The EI Podcast brings you weekly conversations and audio essays from leading writers, thinkers and historians. Hosted by Alastair Benn, Jack Dickens and Paul Lay. Find the EI Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or search The EI Podcast wherever you get your podcasts.

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  • 創作者
    Engelsberg Ideas
  • 活躍年份
    2020年 - 2026年
  • 單集
    405
  • 分級
    兒童適宜
  • 版權
    © Copyright 2020. Engelsberg Ideas - All Rights Reserved.
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    The EI Podcast

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