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Engelsberg Ideas

Engelsberg Ideas

Engelsberg Ideas podcasts bring together leading writers, thinkers and historians to discuss the biggest issues facing the world today. You’ll find calm conversations and thought-provoking analysis. Hosted by Alastair Benn and Paul Lay.

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21:45

Marketing Classical music with Richard Bratby

Engelsberg Ideas ·

2024/06/27

EI's Alastair Benn discusses the condition of Classical music today with Richard Bratby, chief Classical music critic of The Spectator.Image: Music scores. Credit: Tim Gainey / Alamy Stock Photo

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21:45

EI Talks... marketing Classical music with Richard...

Engelsberg Ideas ·

2024/06/27

EI's Alastair Benn discusses the condition of Classical music today with Richard Bratby, chief Classical music critic of The Spectator. Image: Music scores. Credit: Tim Gainey / Alamy Stock Photo

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28:10

John Law and financial crises with Kwasi Kwarteng

Engelsberg Ideas ·

2024/06/20

EI's Iain Martin is joined by Kwasi Kwarteng, historian and former Chancellor of the United Kingdom, to discuss the turbulent life of the 18th century financial speculator John Law, whose innovative ideas were credited with bringing Ancien Régime France to the brink of ruin. There are echoes of what happened when the Truss government tried its own financial experiment, he acknowledges.Image: A cartoon of John Law (1671–1729), the Scottish economist who was appointed Controller General of Finances

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12:49

Laura Freeman on Helen Sutherland, brave cultivator...

Engelsberg Ideas ·

2024/06/19

Laura Freeman profiles Helen Sutherland, an isolated, austere, and fastidious heiress who dedicated herself to art. Read by Sebastian Brown.Image: Woman Playing a Piano, by Winifred Nicholson. Her work was championed by Helen Sutherland. Credit: Paul Quezada-Neiman / Alamy Stock Photo

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12:49

EI Portraits — Laura Freeman on Helen Sutherland,...

Engelsberg Ideas ·

2024/06/19

Laura Freeman profiles Helen Sutherland, an isolated, austere, and fastidious heiress who dedicated herself to art. Read by Sebastian Brown. Image: Woman Playing a Piano, by Winifred Nicholson. Her work was championed by Helen Sutherland. Credit: Paul Quezada-Neiman / Alamy Stock Photo

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23:19

Josef Joffe on Germany, the engine that couldn't

Engelsberg Ideas ·

2024/06/14

Celebrated as predestined shepherd in the glory days of Angela Merkel, Germany in the 2020s is an uncertain giant who has defied expectations, good or bad. Read by Leighton Pugh.Image: The top of the Reichstag Building. Credit: Artur Bogacki / Alamy Stock Photo

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36:41

Women of the ancient world with Daisy Dunn

Engelsberg Ideas ·

2024/06/13

The leading classicist Daisy Dunn joins EI's Paul Lay to discuss her new book, The Missing Thread: A New History of the Ancient World Through the Women Who Shaped It.Image: Nikolaos Gyzis, a 19th Century painter, depicts Sappho playing the lyre. Credit: Photo 12 / Alamy Stock Photo

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13:19

James Barr on George McGhee, American father to...

Engelsberg Ideas ·

2024/06/06

James Barr profiles the debonair and open-faced diplomat, George McGhee, whose shuttle diplomacy helped accelerate Britain's decline as a player in the Middle East. Read by Sebastian Brown.Image: President John F. Kennedy (left, in rocking chair) meets the newly-appointed US Ambassador to West Germany, George McGhee. Credit: Gibson Moss / Alamy Stock Photo

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13:19

EI Portraits — James Barr on George McGhee, American...

Engelsberg Ideas ·

2024/06/06

James Barr profiles the debonair and open-faced diplomat, George McGhee, whose shuttle diplomacy helped accelerate Britain's decline as a player in the Middle East. Read by Sebastian Brown. Image: President John F. Kennedy (left, in rocking chair) meets the newly-appointed US Ambassador to West Germany, George McGhee. Credit: Gibson Moss / Alamy Stock Photo

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55:43

The history of democracy with Erica Benner

Engelsberg Ideas ·

2024/05/30

Erica Benner applies ancient wisdom to modern problems in her new book Adventures in Democracy: The Turbulent World of People Power. She shares her insights with EI's Deputy Editor, Alastair Benn.Image: Gathering of the Areopagus, a deliberative court that met in the open air in ancient Athens. Credit: North Wind Picture Archives / Alamy Stock Photo

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33:43

Lawrence James on the invention of jingoism

Engelsberg Ideas ·

2024/05/03

Jingoism was a natural offshoot of late Victorian imperialism. Read by Leighton Pugh.Image: Poster for a British imperial railway company. Credit: Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo

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22:15

Steven Grosby on the persistence of nationhood

Engelsberg Ideas ·

2024/04/26

What is a nation, what is its significance, and to what problems of life is its persistence a response? Read by Leighton Pugh. Image: Lucas Cranach's The Crossing of the Red Sea, 1530. Credit: Heritage Image Partnership Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo

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29:45

EI Weekly Listen — Adrian Wooldridge on meritocracy

Engelsberg Ideas ·

2024/04/19

The biggest division in modern society is between the meritocracy and the people, the cognitive elite and the masses, the exam-passers and the exam-flunkers. Read by Leighton Pugh. Image: Caricature of a Cambridge University library in the Georgian era. Credit: Thomas Rowlandson / Alamy Stock Photo

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36:13

The Entente Cordiale

Engelsberg Ideas ·

2024/04/18

Self-interest, imperial competition and new threats in Europe - T.G. Otte examines the complex 120-year long history of the Entente Cordiale with EI's senior editor, Paul Lay. Image: First prize winner at the Covent Garden fancy dress ball in 1905, a lady dressed in an elaborate costume as the Entente Cordiale. Credit: Chronicle / Alamy Stock Photo

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13:08

Anna Komnene: the princess who chronicled Byzantium’s...

Engelsberg Ideas ·

2024/04/12

Peter Frankopan on the Byzantine princess Anna Komnene who, banished to a convent for her political ambition, devoted her gifts of observation to charting the fortunes of her father's empire – etching her legacy as Europe's first female historian. Read by Sebastian Brown. Image: Anna Komnene, a Byzantine princess and scholar. Credit: history_docu_photo / Alamy Stock Photo

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20:04

Nathan Shachar on ideology in science

Engelsberg Ideas ·

2024/04/05

There is no linear, moral progress in knowledge and science. Read by Leighton Pugh.Image: Triple-microscope made by the optician Camille Sebastien Nachet in Paris. Credit: gameover / Alamy Stock Photo

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16:30

Gregory Feifer on the mirage of Russian power

Engelsberg Ideas ·

2024/03/29

The mistake many Western countries make is to take Russia largely at face value. Read by Leighton Pugh. Image: Nesting Russian dolls showing former leaders. Credit: Mr Standfast / Alamy Stock Photo

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14:20

The many ways of seeing Saint Monica

Engelsberg Ideas ·

2024/03/28

Gillian Clark on Saint Monica, mother to Augustine of Hippo and lionized by the Latin Church, a women of many names and many more mysteries. Read by Sebastian Brown. Image: Saint Augustine and his mother, Saint Monica. Credit:: Carlo Bollo / Alamy Stock Photo

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27:31

Barry Strauss on Ancient Greek geopolitics

Engelsberg Ideas ·

2024/03/15

The Greeks invented the notion of the interrelationship of geography and politics; indeed, they elaborated it in myriad ways. Read by Leighton Pugh.https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/duality-determinism-and-demography-the-greeks-on-geopolitics/ Image: The Athenian fleet. Credit: INTERFOTO \ Alamy Stock Photo

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27:31

EI Weekly Listen — Barry Strauss on Ancient Greek...

Engelsberg Ideas ·

2024/03/15

The Greeks invented the notion of the interrelationship of geography and politics; indeed, they elaborated it in myriad ways. Read by Leighton Pugh. https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/duality-determinism-and-demography-the-greeks-on-geopolitics/ Image: The Athenian fleet. Credit: INTERFOTO \ Alamy Stock Photo

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