New World Orders

New World Orders

New World Orders gathers the most authoritative voices across international and domestic politics, conflict, economics, and law to engage with and dissect current affairs. Vince Cable explores the emergency of new superstates and a host of voices including Avi Shlaim, Ilan Pappé, Pankaj Mishra, Penny Johnson, Raja Shehadeh, Anne Applebaum, Omar El Akkad, and Fady Judah, unravel the long and catastrophic history between Israel and Palestine, including the most recent and devastating series of attacks.

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Laurie Bristow: The Ambassador’s Final Dispatch

Friday 15 August 18:45 - 19:45

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After a long career at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO), including as director of national security, Laurie Bristow was British ambassador to Afghanistan in 2021 and one of the last civilians to leave when Kabul fell to the Taliban…
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Omar El Akkad & Fady Joudah: Not Looking Away

Saturday 16 August 19:30 - 20:30

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Egyptian-Canadian novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad’s first non-fiction book, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, and Palestinian-American poet Fady Joudah’s new collection, […], both respond to the genocide in Gaza with starkness…
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Derek Thompson: More to Go Around

Monday 18 August 17:00 - 18:00

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Leading US commentator Derek Thompson is an author, podcaster, and journalist at the Atlantic, and a self-­described progressive. His first book, Hit Makers: How to Succeed in an Age of Distraction was a bestseller, and in Abundance - co-authored with…
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Anne Applebaum: The New Autocracy

Monday 18 August 19:30 - 20:30

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Following her recent books Twilight of Democracy and Autocracy Inc, this is an essential hour with a writer whose turned an urgently-needed spotlight on a new kind of 21st century dictatorship and how to resist it…
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Will Hutton: National Remedies

Monday 18 August 20:30 - 21:30

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How Britain has gone wrong is a frequent conversational gambit, but it's seldom followed up with concrete solutions. These are just what political economist and former Observer editor­-in-chief, Will Hutton, offers in This Time No Mistakes…
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Andrey Kurkov: Our Daily War

Tuesday 19 August 17:00 - 18:00

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One of Ukraine's most celebrated post-Soviet novelists, and former president of PEN Ukraine, Kurkov writes with incredible passion and insight on the invasion of his home country. Today, hear Kurkov unpacking his vivid and defiant memoir, Our Daily War…
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Richard Lloyd Parry, Edward Wong & Yuan Yang: On East Asia

Tuesday 19 August 19:30 - 20:30

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From East China's geopolitical ambitions to South Korea's huge cultural influence and recent political turmoil, East Asia looms larger than ever in global news cycles. Yet beyond the headlines, how much do we understand these major international powers'…
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Vince Cable: Twilight of the West?

Wednesday 20 August 18:45 - 19:45

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Former Secretary of State for Business and leader of the Liberal Democrats, the astute economist Vince Cable has settled into life after frontline politics as a prolific author on global affairs and the world economy. Today, he talks to us about…
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Ece Temelkuran: Coming Together to Fight Dictatorship

Wednesday 20 August 20:15 - 21:15

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How did things get so bad, and how can we begin to try and make them better? Turkish political commentator, novelist, poet, and winner of the El Mundo International Journalism Award, Ece Temelkuran joins us to unpack two books attempting to answer both…
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Anshel Pfeffer, Ece Temelkuran & Shaun Walker: No Kings Here

Thursday 21 August 16:00 - 17:00

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How do we survive the era of the authoritarian strongman leader? Why do these men hold a monopoly on political power? And what are the alternatives to their rule?…