Episodes

  • Novara FM: Love Actually w/ Nathalie Olah

    Novara FM: Love Actually w/ Nathalie Olah
    Dec 24 2024
    In Richard Curtis’ Love Actually, a selection of mainly white and middle-class Londoners seem to be living in a parallel universe – one in which the war on terror never happened and the ’90s never ended. What kinds of love are really on offer in this misty-eyed vision of modern Britain? Following Novara FM’s investigation […]
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    58 mins
  • Downstream: 2024 Round Up: Gaza, Starmer and the Death of Woke

    Downstream: 2024 Round Up: Gaza, Starmer and the Death of Woke
    Dec 23 2024
    On the 10th of December, Ash Sarkar, Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani discussed an epoch-defining year and its implications for the future. Is Starmer screwed? Are expansionist wars back? Has ‘woke’ died? Find out in our end of year Downstream special.
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    1 hr and 36 mins
  • Novara FM: Die Hard w/ James Butler

    Novara FM: Die Hard w/ James Butler
    Dec 19 2024
    Die Hard is a perennial of festive TV, but is it really a Christmas movie? James Butler and Eleanor Penny explore what the 1988 action comedy reveals about corporate power, class antagonism, mid-century terrorism and women in the workplace. Who is Bruce Willis’ shoeless cowboy cop out to rescue? And what is going on with […]
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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • Downstream: Germany, Russia and the Death of Europe w/ Wolfgang Munchau

    Downstream: Germany, Russia and the Death of Europe w/ Wolfgang Munchau
    Dec 16 2024
    Almost 140 or so years ago, Germany invented the car. In the subsequent century, it was central to two world wars; its manufacturing was the envy of much of the world, and in the latter half of the 20th century, it was vital to European integration. Now, just 2 months before a general election, Germany […]
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    1 hr and 48 mins
  • Novara FM: We Need a New Wikileaks w/ Stefani Maurizi

    Novara FM: We Need a New Wikileaks w/ Stefani Maurizi
    Dec 13 2024
    In the 2010s, we found out that we were all being watched. A series of leaks, from Wikileaks and others, revealed that our governments were conducting mass surveillance operations on their own populations. But what were the longer term consequences of those leaks? And why hasn’t something of equivalent size stepped in to replace Wikileaks since? […]
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    1 hr and 28 mins
  • Downstream: The Journalist Who Spent A Year With The Taliban w/ Ibrahim Nash’at

    Downstream: The Journalist Who Spent A Year With The Taliban w/ Ibrahim Nash’at
    Dec 9 2024
    When the Taliban retook all of Afghanistan in 2021, it came as a shock to much of the West. The day after the last American soldier left, journalist and filmmaker Ibrahim Nash’at flew into Kabul to spend a year filming with their senior military leadership. What he found was a Taliban drunk on power, in […]
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    53 mins
  • ACFM Trip 48: Political Commitment

    ACFM Trip 48: Political Commitment
    Dec 8 2024
    Which side are you on? Keir, Nadia and Jem consider the ebb and flow of political commitment with ideas and music from Jodi Dean, Gramsci, John Coltrane and the Raincoats. Is cultural production the same as political action? What’s the difference between an ally and a comrade? And why do some communists end up as […]
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    1 hr and 44 mins
  • Novara FM: The New Scramble for Africa in the Vacuum of Empire w/ James Pogue

    Novara FM: The New Scramble for Africa in the Vacuum of Empire w/ James Pogue
    Dec 5 2024
    In 1891, the French drew the borders of what became Mali. Like many colonial borders, they were arbitrary, absurd to the many nomads who supposedly lived within them. Now climate change is ravaging the Sahel region, and many of those nomads are being forced to settle down. And Russia and China have arrived to replace […]
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    1 hr and 22 mins