
RSA Podcasts
Podcasts from the RSA that illuminate, inspire and provoke. Interviews and discussion programmes exploring contemporary social challenges.
Society & Culture
Polarised: Good Economics for Hard Times
RSA chief executive Matthew Taylor and journalist Ia...
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Nov 19 2019 44m
Polarised: Do you understand public opinion as well as you think you do?
Matthew Taylor and Ian Leslie dissect new (and somet...
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Oct 10 2019 37m
Polarised: The Week Politics Jumped the Shark
The RSA's Matthew Taylor and the author of 'Born Lia...
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Sep 7 2019 29m
Polarised: Hope vs Fear, Live from Wilderness Festival
Matthew Taylor is joined by a live Wilderness Festiv...
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Aug 6 2019 37m
Polarised: The Four Deadly Sins of Modern Politics
Ian Leslie and Matthew Taylor analyse Theresa May’s ...
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Jul 19 2019 40m
Polarised: Utopia and Reality
Just as our reality has seemed to take a dystopian t...
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Jun 22 2019 45m
Elections, Fatalism, and Twitter Storms
Matthew Taylor speaks to French political journalist...
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May 31 2019 44m
Extinction Rebellion: what next?
At long last, for a few weeks in April, climate brea...
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May 18 2019 47m
Polarised: Religion
Is religion still shaping our politics? And has its ...
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May 3 2019 37m
Polarised: How Change Happens
Insights from three of the world's leading thinkers ...
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Apr 20 2019 37m
Polarised: Capitalism and Conservatism, with Iain Dale and Jacob Field
We’re living through the biggest backlash against ne...
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Apr 5 2019 54m
Polarised: Denialism, with Caroline Lucas MP & Keith Kahn-Harris
From climate change to vaccines, there’s a worrying ...
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Mar 21 2019 41m
Polarised: Is the centre ground dead?
Commentators say the financial crisis and its afterm...
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Mar 12 2019 34m
Polarised: Responsible Parties
Has the opening up of political parties been a vital...
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Feb 25 2019 33m
Polarised: Talking to the Enemy, with Michael Sandel & Maria Exner
This week Ian Leslie and Matthew Taylor are asking: ...
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Feb 13 2019 38m
Polarised: Could a citizens' jury help break the Brexit deadlock?
Two days after the biggest government defeat in the ...
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Jan 17 2019 30m
Polarised: Francis Fukuyama on Identity
The phrase ‘identity politics’ has come to be used a...
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Dec 24 2018 36m
Polarised: The psychology of tribalism, with Jonathan Haidt
Is tribalism an indelible part of human nature? And ...
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Dec 6 2018 33m
Polarised: Stories, Myths and Belonging
It's been a turbulent week in UK politics. What coul...
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Nov 21 2018 31m
Polarised: Is democracy failing?
Is democracy falling apart? How worried should we be...
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Nov 1 2018 27m
Polarised: Nervous States
Have feelings taken over the world? Have we lost our...
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Oct 18 2018 35m
Polarised: Anger
Anger is all the rage, but is anger itself the probl...
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Aug 24 2018 30m
Polarised: The Media and Echo Chambers
Is it really true that we all live in our own echo c...
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Jul 25 2018 26m
Polarised: Inequality and Generation Wealth
Are economic divides to blame for everything else th...
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Jun 28 2018 36m
Polarised: How Internet Culture Poisoned Politics
The third episode of a brand new podcast series from...
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Jun 20 2018 28m