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Angela Saini
March 06, 2022

Science journalist Angela Saini discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Angela Saini is an award-winning British science journalist and broadcaster. She presents science programmes on the BBC, and her writing has appeared in New Scien

Jesse Norman
February 27, 2022

Jesse Norman discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Jesse Norman has been Conservative MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire since 2010. He was Financial Secretary to the Treasury from 2019 to 2021. Before entering politics Jesse w

Vladimir Alexandrov
February 20, 2022

Vladimir Alexandrov discusses with Ivan two things which should be better known: both men who lived in Russia in the early part of the twentieth century. Vladimir Alexandrov taught courses in Yale's Slavic Department on nineteenth and twentieth-century Ru

Gaia Vince
February 13, 2022

Gaia Vince discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Gaia Vince is a science writer and broadcaster interested in the interplay between humans and the planetary environment. She is a Senior Honorary Research Fellow at University College

Travis Elborough
February 06, 2022

Travis Elborough discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Described by The Guardian as “one of Britain’s finest pop culture historians”, Travis Elborough has been a freelance writer, author, broadcaster and cultural commentator for two

Peter Oborne
January 30, 2022

Journalist Peter Oborne discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Peter Oborne is a former political commentator of the Spectator, the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail. He now writes about politics for Open Democracy and Middle East Eye.

Rob Doyle
January 23, 2022

Rob Doyle discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Rob Doyle is the author of four internationally acclaimed books: Autobibliography, Threshold, This Is the Ritual and Here Are the Young Men, which has been adapted for film. His writin

Catharine Arnold
January 16, 2022

Historian Catharine Arnold discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Catharine Arnold is a popular historian and television presenter specialising in dark themes. Her most recent book is Pandemic 1918, the Story of the Deadliest Influen

Robin Baker
January 09, 2022

Robin Baker discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Robin is head curator of the BFI National Archive - one of the world’s largest and most important collections of film and television – where he leads the team responsible for develop

Jessica Nordell
January 02, 2022

Jessica Nordell discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Jessica Nordell is a science and culture journalist whose writing has appeared in the Atlantic, the New York Times, the New Republic and many other publications. A former writer