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Latest Episodes

Downstream: Kidnapped at Sea by the Israeli Military. The Full Story w/ Kieran Andrieu
October 22, 2025

The Gaza Strip, home to 2.2 million people, is a tiny land mass about the same size as the Isle of Wight. Yet in terms of munitions by weight, Gaza has been subjected to more than all of the bombs dro

Downstream: What Really Changed on 7th October w/ Ahmed Alnaouq, Yara Eid and Tareq Baconi
October 20, 2025

Just over two years after the beginning of the genocide in Gaza, and just days after the announcement of a ceasefire, Aaron Bastani spoke to three Palestinian writers in front of a live audience at Ea

ACFM Trip 55: Parties
October 19, 2025

Amid the bumpy launch of a new left-wing party and the rise of the Greens and Reform, the ACFM crew turn their attention to parties. Do we still need them? Do parties work by drawing people together,

Downstream: Democracy Is Under Massive Threat From AI w/ William MacAskill
October 13, 2025

Artificial intelligence is set to be one of the most disruptive technologies this century. For some, a machine capable of augmenting its own intelligence is a matter of time and could even arrive wi

Downstream: Was the 20th Century a Catastrophe, or a Miracle? w/ Yanis Varoufakis
October 06, 2025

Economist, and former finance minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis joins Aaron to discuss his most recent book Raise Your Soul: A Personal History of Resistance, a memoir about the women in Yanis fam

Downstream: The Right Is Stirring up Anti-Muslim Hate – and It’s Getting Worse w/ Myriam François
September 29, 2025

In the summer of 2024, hotels sheltering Muslim asylum seekers across Britain were attacked by violent mobs. A year later, as the summer of 2025 drew to a close, a far-right demonstration of 100,000 p

ACFM Microdose: Sci-Fi
September 28, 2025

After last weeks ACFM Trip to the Future, Jem and Keir reconvene to talk about science fiction. Is sci-fi a reaction to the time-space compression of the present? Is it inherently progressive? How

Downstream: How Brexit Paved The Way For Farage’s Bid for Downing Street w/ Tom McTague
September 22, 2025

Its almost 10 years since Britain voted to leave the EU, and were still dealing with the consequences. In his new book, Between The Waves, Politicos chief UK political correspondent Tom McTague arg

ACFM Trip 54: The Future
September 21, 2025

What if we stopped treating the future like a speculative asset and started trying to actually build and prepare? The ACFM gang look to the horizon in this Trip episode. Did young people always worry

Downstream: The Political Possibilities of the Ancient World w/ Josephine Quinn
September 15, 2025

What were the ancient alternatives to democracy? Did people in the Bronze Age forget how to write or deliberately stop? And whats the use in studying ancient languages? In a Downstream IRL recorded