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  • The lost art of chorography

    The lost art of chorography
    2025/06/26
    The writer Josh Mcloughlin reflects on the art of chorography, one of English literature’s most eccentric and mercurial forms. Read by Leighton Pugh.

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    The lost art of chorography | Josh Mcloughlin

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    24 分
  • 1975, the year that made the modern world

    1975, the year that made the modern world
    2025/06/19
    Historian Damian Valdez reflects on the meaning of 1975, a fateful year for the international order. Read by Leighton Pugh.

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    1975, the year that made the modern world | Damian Valdez

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    19 分
  • How Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin fought Hitler – and each other

    How Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin fought Hitler – and each other
    2025/06/12
    EI’s Paul Lay joins historian Tim Bouverie to discuss ‘Allies at War’, his gripping new book on how Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin’s uneasy alliance led to the end of the Second World War – and reshaped the global order in ways that are still felt today.

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    42 分
  • What happened to the politician’s moustache?

    What happened to the politician’s moustache?
    2025/06/05
    Writer Luka Ivan Jukic laments the all-but-total disappearance of facial hair from politics. Read by Leighton Pugh.

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    What happened to the politician’s moustache? | Luka Ivan Jukic

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    19 分
  • The strange death of squalor

    The strange death of squalor
    2025/05/29
    Journalist and author Jenny McCartney celebrates the magic of squalor, and explores how generations of artists have seen the sublime in slime. Read by Leighton Pugh.

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    On squalor | Jenny McCartney

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    21 分
  • Why Finns joined the fight

    Why Finns joined the fight
    2025/05/22
    Geopolitical analyst Charly Salonius-Pasternak examines Finland's long journey to full membership of the Western alliance, and explores how the Nordic nation could play a leading role in its future.

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    Why Finns joined the fight | Charly Salonius-Pasternak

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    22 分
  • The West’s lust for liberty

    The West’s lust for liberty
    2025/05/15
    The late Christopher Coker, Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics for almost 40 years, explains why, although the love of liberty is not unique to the West, the lust for liberty is. Read by Helen Lloyd.

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    The West’s lust for liberty | Christopher Coker

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    14 分
  • Christianity and the creation of England

    Christianity and the creation of England
    2025/05/08
    In this episode of The EI Podcast, the historian Bijan Omrani is joined by EI's Paul Lay to explore the indelible mark Christianity has left on England’s identity and culture.

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    The tragic decline of Christian rituals | Bijan Omrani

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