Episodes

  • Downstream: How War, Trade and Farming Changed the Planet Forever w/ Sunil Amrith

    Downstream: How War, Trade and Farming Changed the Planet Forever w/ Sunil Amrith
    Oct 28 2024
    What if instead of talking about history from the perspective of humanity, we told it from the perspective of the resources that made human expansion possible? Sunil Amrith is a historian and author of The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of The Last 500 Years. He sat down with Ash to explain how a bumper […]
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Novara FM: The Age of Disaster Nationalism w/ Richard Seymour

    Novara FM: The Age of Disaster Nationalism w/ Richard Seymour
    Oct 24 2024
    Around the world, far-right movements are mobilising support by placing the blame for real catastrophes – Covid-19, the war in Ukraine, their own riots and insurrections – on entirely made-up enemies, among them Muslims, immigrants and feminists. This is what Richard Seymour, a writer, theorist and founding editor of Salvage magazine, calls disaster nationalism. He joins Richard Hames […]
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    1 hr and 34 mins
  • Downstream: Insects Are Disappearing and We Should Be Very Worried w/ Dave Goulson

    Downstream: Insects Are Disappearing and We Should Be Very Worried w/ Dave Goulson
    Oct 22 2024
    From pollinating crops to managing organic waste on a continental scale, insects are vital to life on Earth. They are also disappearing. Dave Goulson is an entomologist and ecologist whose books communicate the majesty of insects and arthropods – along with a grave warning about their demise. He talks to Aaron to Bastani talk about the […]
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    1 hr and 50 mins
  • Novara FM: Understanding Hezbollah, Israel’s ‘Best Enemy’ w/ Elia Ayoub

    Novara FM: Understanding Hezbollah, Israel’s ‘Best Enemy’ w/ Elia Ayoub
    Oct 17 2024
    What does Israel hope to achieve this time, nearly 20 years after its last failed ground offensive in Lebanon? And how should we understand its adversary, a political party that also functions as a fighting force, a historical movement, and a regional power? Richard Hames is joined by Elia Ayoub, a Lebanese-Palestinian researcher and writer […]
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    1 hr and 19 mins
  • Downstream: Do We Really Need to Tax the Rich? w/ Stephanie Kelton

    Downstream: Do We Really Need to Tax the Rich? w/ Stephanie Kelton
    Oct 14 2024
    Stephanie Kelton is an author and economist, and subject of the new film ‘Finding The Money’. Her work as a proponent of Modern Monetary Theory and as an advisor to Bernie Sanders has put her front and center of the debate around government debt, taxation and the potential green industrial revolution. She sat down for […]
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    1 hr
  • ACFM Trip 46: Death

    ACFM Trip 46: Death
    Oct 13 2024
    Of all the unseen forces that shape human society, could death be the most powerful? The ACFM crew take a leftwing look at mortality in this Trip, asking how capitalism has altered our approach to the inevitable. Jem, Nadia and Keir think about how industrialised workers were taught to prepare for death, why powerful men […]
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    1 hr and 44 mins
  • Novara FM: When Does A Crowd Become A Mob? w/ Dan Hancox

    Novara FM: When Does A Crowd Become A Mob? w/ Dan Hancox
    Oct 10 2024
    The English language is full of pejoratives for large groups of people: mob mentality. Herd behaviour. Crowd contagion. Much of this apprehension stems from one of the most influential works of psychology ever written, Gustave Le Bon’s The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind. Unfortunately, Le Bon’s big idea – that crowds produce derangement […]
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    1 hr and 16 mins
  • Downstream: Everything You Need to Know About China & Xi Jinping w/ Olivia Cheung

    Downstream: Everything You Need to Know About China & Xi Jinping w/ Olivia Cheung
    Oct 9 2024
    Xi Jinping is possibly the most powerful person in the world, but what do we know about his origins, ways of thinking and goals for China and the human race in general? To answer these questions and more, Aaron is joined by Olivia Cheung, author of “The Political Thought of Xi Jinping”. They discuss his […]
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    1 hr and 28 mins