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The EI Podcast

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 and Paul Lay. Find the EI Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or search The EI Podcast wherever you get your podcasts.Copyright 2020. Engelsberg Ideas - All Rights Reserved. Art Literary History & Criticism Political Science Politics & Government World
Episodes
  • Can Europe thrive in a multipolar world?

    Can Europe thrive in a multipolar world?
    Apr 30 2026

    Mark Leonard, co-founder and director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, speaks to EI’s Jack Dickens about Europe’s place in a changing world order.

    Image: The EU flag in Siracusa, Sicily. Credit: Alamy
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    54 mins
  • The long shadow of the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials

    The long shadow of the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials
    Apr 27 2026

    In the courtrooms of Nuremberg and Tokyo, the victorious Allies declared that civilisation must not merely win wars but also judge them, leaving a legal and moral legacy that persists to this day. Read by Leighton Pugh.

    Image: The defendants at the Nuremberg Trial in 1946. Credit: PictureLux / The Hollywood Archive.
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    27 mins
  • Universities are at crisis point

    Universities are at crisis point
    Apr 23 2026

    Daisy Christodoulou and Nicholas Wright join EI’s Paul Lay to discuss the crisis in British universities and how to fix it.

    Image: Sightseers outside the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. Credit: Alamy
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    1 hr and 2 mins
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