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Latest Episodes

Downstream: Are We Living Through the End of an Empire? w/ Lea Ypi
September 08, 2025

What can the collapse of the Ottoman Empire teach us about the danger of the current discourse around migration? ‘Re-migration’ is not a new concept conjured up by the far-right, but rather something

Downstream: Infinite Growth Will Lead to Collapse w/ Jason Hickel
September 01, 2025

Our politicians dont agree on much, but one thing most of them agree on is that growth is universally good. Grow the pie, they assure us, and there will be more to go around. Our guest on Downstream

ACFM Microdose: Gardening
August 31, 2025

Are gardens a sanctuary or an enclosure? The ACFM gang sketch out a weird-left history of gardening, from the walled gardens of paradise to the tarmacked lawns of suburban Britain. Find the books, mus

Downstream: China Is Building While the West Crumbles w/ Dan Wang
August 25, 2025

Dan Wang is a technology analyst and author whose life experience, spent partly in North America, partly in China, sets him up as an authoritative observerof the differences and similarities between

Downstream: A Reckoning Is Coming For The Establishment Over Gaza w/ Owen Jones
August 18, 2025

Owen Jones is a journalist and the author of Chavs, The Establishment, and This Land. He has spent the last 21 months relentlessly reporting and commenting on Israels genocidal war on Gaza. He

Downstream: The Ancient Indian History Our Schools Don’t Teach w/ William Dalrymple
August 11, 2025

Ash Sarkar sat down at EartH Hackney with acclaimed historian and author William Dalrymple. Picking up where they left off last time they spoke on Downstream, Sarkar and Dalrymple had a wide-ranging c

Novara FM: Where Did Novara Media Come From? w/ Aaron Bastani, James Butler and Ash Sarkar
August 07, 2025

Novara FM was Novara Medias first show its now coming to an end. On the final episode, Richard Hames sat down with Aaron Bastani, James Butler and Ash Sarkar to talk about 15 years of Novara Media

Downstream: The Real Reason Millennials Are Screwed w/ Eliza Filby
August 04, 2025

Dr Eliza Filby is a historian and author of the bestselling book Inheritocracy: Its Time to Talk About the Bank of Mum and Dad. In conversation with Ash Sarkar, Dr Filby draws on her own life story,

ACFM Trip 53: Growth
August 03, 2025

Keir Starmer claims that growth is the only cure for a country in decline. But why is it the central obsession of modern capitalist economies? And can we think our way out of it before our planet runs

EXCLUSIVE: Zarah Sultana’s First Interview Since Resigning From The Labour Party
July 28, 2025

Zarah Sultana speaks to Novara Media exclusively about why she resigned from the Labour Party, what the plan is with her new political party founded with Jeremy Corbyn and how the left can defeat Nige