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EI Weekly Listen

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  • Summary

  • Weekly audio essays from leading experts. Read by Leighton Pugh.
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Episodes
  • Gudrun Persson on Russia’s forever war against Ukraine
    Jul 5 2024
    An often-overlooked fact about the current Russo-Ukrainian War is that over the centuries Russia has waged several wars to try to conquer Crimea and the Donbas area. Read by Helen Lloyd.

    Image: Ukrania quae et Terra Cosaccorum cum vicinis Walachiae, Moldoviae, by Johann Baptiste Homann (1664–1724), 1720. Credit: history_docu_photo / Alamy Stock Photo
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    22 mins
  • Iskander Rehman on early modern information overload
    Jun 28 2024
    The sense of being overwhelmed and constantly distracted is nothing new. Historians and policymakers should look to the 17th century for guidance on how to grapple with information overload. Read by Helen Lloyd.

    Image: Rembrandt's 'Portrait of a Scholar', 1631. Credit: PRISMA ARCHIVO / Alamy Stock Photo
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    23 mins
  • Julian Jackson on De Gaulle’s world in motion
    Jun 21 2024
    Part statesman, part prophet, Charles de Gaulle knew instinctively that political success and failure are inevitably interlinked, and that history would be the ultimate judge of both. Read by Helen Lloyd.

    Image: The President of France Charles de Gaulle marches through the streets under the Arc de Triomphe in 1944. Credit: ZUMA Press, Inc. / Alamy Stock Photo
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    18 mins

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