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Latest Episodes

Novara FM: Israel-Iran War, Escalation Pauses w/ Eskandar Sadeghi
June 25, 2025

Escalation towards war with Iran has hit a pause. But for how long? Eskandar Sadeghi is the author of Revolution and its Discontents: Political Thought and Reform in Iran. He joined Richard Hames to e

Downstream: Trump’s Plan is to Make His Friends Even Richer w/ Quinn Slobodian
June 23, 2025

Quinn Slobodian is a Canadian historian. His new book, Hayeks Bastards: The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right is a deep dive into the set of far-right ideologues currently dominating US politics

Novara FM: How BlackRock and Global Finance Stole Your Future w/ Michael A. McCarthy
June 19, 2025

Got a pension? Or a savings account? Arguably, its purpose is to align your interests with the interests of capitalism: when the market goes up, you benefit too. All this means that the working class

Downstream: American Democracy Is Collapsing, and This Man Predicted It w/ Joseph Stiglitz
June 16, 2025

During the 2008 economic crisis, the Obama administration had an opportunity to enact widespread market reforms. Instead, they bailed out the banks and laid the groundwork for mass inequality and a po

Novara FM: How to Redistribute the Globe w/ Jo Guldi
June 13, 2025

Assuming youre not reading this on your yacht, then the most contentious thing in the world is right beneath you. Since the dawn of agriculture, peasants, farmers, landlords, and states have vied for

Downstream: The IDF Killed My Entire Family, and the British Government Helped Them w/ Ahmed Alnaouq
June 10, 2025

Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist and author. In October 2023, while he was in the UK, an Israeli airstrike hit his home in central Gaza, killing 21 of his immediate family, including his fath

Novara FM: Palantir Technologies and the Age of Automated Genocide w/ Matt Mahmoudi
June 05, 2025

The genocide in Gaza has been the most automated in history. Systems like Lavender and Wheres Daddy? reportedly speed up the process of tracking and targeting Palestinians. The genocides brutali

Downstream: Britain’s Most Powerful Multi-Millionaire Hippy w/ Dale Vince
June 02, 2025

Dale Vince is a former new age traveller and the inventor of a string of transformative technologies: the worlds first green energy company, the electric supercar, and the Electric Highway charging n

ACFM Microdose: Superheroes
June 02, 2025

Following the recent Trip episode on Heroes, Keir and Jem return with a Microdose focusing on the masked, the winged and the mutated. Why are superheroes such a cultural mainstay? What psychological a

Novara FM: How Enoch Powell Explains British Politics’ Rivers of Shit w/ Kojo Koram
May 29, 2025

Keir Starmer stands accused of echoing Enoch Powell in his Island of Strangers speech. But who was this titanic figure in the history of British racism? And how did he shape the far rights existent