Engelsberg Ideas Podcasts

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  • 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.
    Copyright 2020. Engelsberg Ideas - All Rights Reserved.
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Episodes
  • EI Weekly Listen — Merryn Somerset Webb on the power of shareholder democracy

    EI Weekly Listen — Merryn Somerset Webb on the power of shareholder democracy
    Jan 31 2025
    The limited liability company remains the best vehicle for capitalistic endeavour. Read by Helen Lloyd.

    Engelsberg Ideas is funded by the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit.

    Image: Lloyd's coffee house in the City of London. Credit: CPA Media Pte Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo
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    17 mins
  • EI Talks... the dawn of the post-literate society

    EI Talks... the dawn of the post-literate society
    Jan 30 2025
    Is the era of mass literacy over? And what might a post-literate society look like?

    EI's Alastair Benn is joined by Times columnist James Marriott and Senior Editor Paul Lay to discuss the promise and peril of a culture defined by the audiovisual.

    Engelsberg Ideas is funded by the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit. EI Talks... is hosted by Paul Lay and Alastair Benn, and produced by Caitlin Brown. The sound engineer is Gareth Jones.

    Image: Painting of a woman reading by Carl Vilhelm Holsøe. Credit: Vidimages / Alamy Stock Photo
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    47 mins
  • EI Weekly Listen — Sergey Radchenko on what drives Vladimir Putin

    EI Weekly Listen — Sergey Radchenko on what drives Vladimir Putin
    Jan 24 2025
    Putin’s justifications for invading Ukraine uncannily reflect the motivations of one of Russian literature’s most famous antiheroes, Dostoevsky's Rodion Raskolnikov. Read by Helen Lloyd.

    Engelsberg Ideas is funded by the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit.

    Image: Vladimir Putin at an EU-Russia summit in Brussels. Credit: Peter Cavanagh / Alamy Stock Photo
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    18 mins

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