Episodes

  • Novara FM: London’s Endless Appetite w/ Jonathan Nunn and Amardeep Singh Dhillon

    Novara FM: London’s Endless Appetite w/ Jonathan Nunn and Amardeep Singh Dhillon
    Apr 18 2024
    London is a foodie metropolis: undoubtedly one of the best places to eat in the world. But eating in London is also, like everything else in the city, shaped by its history as the capital of a globe-spanning empire. How did the contraction of this formal empire change infamously terrible British cuisine? How did multiculturalism […]
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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • Downstream: The West is Poor, Africa is Rich w/ George The Poet

    Downstream: The West is Poor, Africa is Rich w/ George The Poet
    Apr 15 2024
    George The Poet is a poet and author best known for his acclaimed BBC audio series, Have You Heard George’s Podcast? He joins Ash for an expansive conversation about his journey from grime MC to poet to academic, how Black music lost its radical politics, and how his politics was radically reshaped when he started […]
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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • Novara FM: Colonial Capitalism Has Made Us Sick w/ Rupa Marya & Raj Patel

    Novara FM: Colonial Capitalism Has Made Us Sick w/ Rupa Marya & Raj Patel
    Apr 11 2024
    Centuries of colonial capitalism have reordered life on the planet and inside our bodies, from industrial farming and the uneven advances of modern medicine, to night shifts, chronic stress and inflammation. Has the system made us sick? That’s the concern of Rupa Marya and Raj Patel, who join Eleanor Penny to talk about the history […]
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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • Downstream: Israelis Want Genocide w/ Abby Martin

    Downstream: Israelis Want Genocide w/ Abby Martin
    Apr 8 2024
    Abby Martin is an American journalist and activist, host of the interview series The Empire Files, and a co-founder of the citizen journalism website Media Roots. She joins Ash Sarkar to discuss her political journey after 9/11, working for the state broadcaster Russia Today, how Israelis really talk about Palestinians, and why she believes the […]
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Novara FM: What’s Really Causing the Housing Crisis? w/ Nick Bano

    Novara FM: What’s Really Causing the Housing Crisis? w/ Nick Bano
    Apr 4 2024
    Why is it so expensive to rent in the UK? In a divisive new book, barrister Nick Bano places the blame squarely on price-gouging landlords, rejecting the conventional wisdom that calls for more new housing as a solution to the crisis. He goes head to head with Novara Live’s Michael Walker to explain the thinking […]
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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • Downstream IRL: This Ideology Threatens Our Fundamental Freedoms w/ Judith Butler

    Downstream IRL: This Ideology Threatens Our Fundamental Freedoms w/ Judith Butler
    Apr 1 2024
    For a special edition of Downstream IRL, Ash Sarkar is joined by philosopher, author, and one of the world’s most cited academics, Judith Butler. Their new book, ‘Who’s Afraid of Gender’ charts how a transphobic moral panic morphed into an all-our war on so-called ‘gender ideology’. Together, Ash and Judith explore how Britain became TERF […]
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    55 mins
  • Downstream: We Are Getting Foreign Policy Very Wrong w/ Steve Coll

    Downstream: We Are Getting Foreign Policy Very Wrong w/ Steve Coll
    Mar 25 2024
    With hindsight, the wars waged by the US and Britain in Afghanistan and Iraq look like terrible failures, both strategically and politically: the Taliban are back in power in Afghanistan, and living standards are worse in Iraq than they were before Saddam Hussein. In his new book The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the United States […]
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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • Novara FM: Critical Theorists Hate This One Weird Trick w/ Anna Kornbluh

    Novara FM: Critical Theorists Hate This One Weird Trick w/ Anna Kornbluh
    Mar 21 2024
    We’re living in a world of hurry and shortcuts, of intimacy on tap and just-in-time production. Immediacy, according to Anna Kornbluh, is the link between flow-states and Fleabag, between food delivery apps and a mistrust of political systems. She joins Richard Hames to explain the thinking behind her new book – Immediacy: Or, The Style […]
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    1 hr and 12 mins