Novara Media Summaries & Transcripts

Downstream: Former Scottish Leader: How My Family Escaped Gaza & Why I Can’t Forgive Starmer w/ Humza Yousaf

Oct 11, 2026

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Do Your Own Research: The Chinese Company That Terrifies the West w/ Eva Dou

Oct 10, 2026

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Downstream: Trauma Farming and the Politics of Public Suffering w/ Catherine Liu

Oct 5, 2026

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Do Your Own Research: Secrets of the Chinese Internet w/ Tianyu Fang

Oct 3, 2026

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Downstream: Porn Addiction Defines Our Political Age. Here’s How w/ Ash Sarkar

Sep 28, 2026

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ACFM Microdose: Reading The Society of the Spectacle

Sep 27, 2026

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Downstream: AI Will Destroy Liberal Democracy w/ Daron Acemoglu

Sep 21, 2026

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Downstream: The Next Big Shock Is Coming. Green Energy Is the Only Way Out w/ Tessa Khan

Sep 14, 2026

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ACFM Trip 63: Situationism

Sep 13, 2026

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Downstream: The Big AI Lie w/ Cory Doctorow

Sep 7, 2026

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Downstream: Multiculturalism Will Save the Working Class w/ Jonas Patrick Marvin

Aug 31, 2026

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Downstream: Elites Have No Plan for Climate Change w/ Bill McGuire

Aug 25, 2026

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Downstream: The Journalist Who Terrifies Corporate America w/ Amy Goodman

Aug 17, 2026

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ACFM Microdose: How Britain’s Coastal Communities are Reclaiming Power w/ Hazel Sheffield

Aug 16, 2026

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Downstream: Ex-Oil Engineer Turned Climate Whistleblower: “We Face Collapse” w/ Kevin Anderson

Aug 10, 2026

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ACFM 62: The Beach

Aug 9, 2026

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Downstream: The West is Over. Here’s Why w/ Pankaj Mishra

Aug 3, 2026

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Do Your Own Research: Is This Podcast the Problem? w/ Joshua Citarella

Aug 1, 2026

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Burnham Vows To Tackle Youth Unemployment

Jul 28, 2026

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Downstream: Who Profits From Genocide? w/ Andrew Feinstein

Jul 27, 2026

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Do Your Own Research: What JD Vance and Tucker Carlson Actually Believe w/ James Pogue

Jul 25, 2026

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Downstream: You Will Rent Forever. Here’s Why. w/ Peter Apps

Jul 20, 2026

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Downstream: The Middle Class Will Collapse Unless We Tax the Rich w/ Gary Stevenson

Jul 13, 2026

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ACFM Microdose: Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations

Jul 12, 2026

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Do Your Own Research: The True Cost of AI Girlfriends w/ James Muldoon

Jul 10, 2026

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Downstream: Who Really Won the War on Drugs? w/ Kojo Koram

Jul 6, 2026

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119: I know I should forgive my enemies… but what if I don’t want to?

Jun 30, 2026

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Do Your Own Research: How China Wins the Resource War w/ Thea Riofrancos

Jun 29, 2026

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Downstream: Governments Do Capitalism Wrong. Here’s How We Fix It. w/ Mariana Mazzucato

Jun 29, 2026

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ACFM Trip 61: Resilience

Jun 28, 2026

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Downstream: What the US-Iran Peace Negotiations are Really About w/ Daniel Levy

Jun 26, 2026

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Do Your Own Research: How Private Equity Bought the World w/ Hettie O’Brien

Jun 20, 2026

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Downstream: The Truth About the US Military w/ Matt Kennard

Jun 15, 2026

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Do Your Own Research: Israel Is Literally Burying Evidence of Its Genocide w/ Eyal Weizman

Jun 13, 2026

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Downstream: AI Billionaires Want to Control Every Aspect of Your Life w/ Karen Hao

Jun 8, 2026

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ACFM Microdose: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Jun 7, 2026

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Do Your Own Research: From the Bible to ChatBots: A History of Psyops w/ Trevor Paglen

Jun 6, 2026

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Downstream: The Woman Who Invented Intersectionality w/ Kimberlé Crenshaw

Jun 1, 2026

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Do Your Own Research: AI Is Not A Bubble. The Reality Is Far Worse w/ Garrison Lovely

May 30, 2026

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Downstream: Top Economist Exposes Inequality Death Spiral w/ Gabriel Zucman

May 26, 2026

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Do Your Own Research: The Scandal of the Century? Hondurasgate Explained w/ David Adler

May 25, 2026

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ACFM Trip 60: Shock!

May 24, 2026

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Downstream: British Politics Is in Meltdown. Here’s Why w/ James Butler

May 19, 2026

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Do Your Own Research: Do Androids Dream of Human Rights? w/ Lisa Siraganian

May 18, 2026

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Downstream: The Most Influential Leftist You’ve Never Heard Of w/ Peter Mertens

May 11, 2026

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ACFM Microdose: New Weird Britain

May 10, 2026

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Do Your Own Research: What the World’s Most Famous Marxist Really Thinks of Zohran Mamdani w/ David Harvey

May 9, 2026

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Downstream: British Politics Is About to Collapse w/ James Meadway

May 4, 2026

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Do Your Own Research: How The Far Right Captured British Politics w/ Daniel Trilling

May 2, 2026

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Downstream: The Truth About Smartphones’ Dirty Supply Chain w/ Nicholas Niarchos

Apr 27, 2026

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Do Your Own Research: You Can’t Have Billionaires and Democracy. Ancient Collapse Proves It. w/ Luke Kemp

Apr 25, 2026

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Downstream: Europe’s Ancient Myths, Current Crises & Future Possibilities w/ Roderick Beaton

Apr 20, 2026

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The Human Cost of Britain’s Dark Money Industry w/ Peter Geoghegan & Stephanie Brobbey

Apr 14, 2026

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Downstream: The Secrets of the Chinese Internet w/ Yi-Ling Liu

Apr 13, 2026

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ACFM Trip 59: Hobbies

Apr 12, 2026

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Do Your Own Research: The Iran War Will Collapse the American Empire w/ Alfred McCoy

Apr 11, 2026

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Iran Threatens Retaliation Against Trump’s Criminal Threats

Apr 6, 2026

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Downstream: Is Liberalism Finally Waking Up to the Crises it has Caused? w/ Adrian Wooldridge

Apr 6, 2026

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The Greens WILL Beat Labour w/ Hannah Spencer and Faiza Shaheen

Mar 30, 2026

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ACFM Trip 58: Boredom

Mar 29, 2026

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Do Your Own Research: Isolated, Scared, and Furious: Welcome to the Age of Hyperpolitics

Mar 28, 2026

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Downstream: The Right Is Winning. Here’s How We Change That w/ Ash Sarkar

Mar 23, 2026

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Do Your Own Research: How Musk’s Paranoid Empire Really Works w/ Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff

Mar 21, 2026

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Downstream: The Middle Class Is Collapsing. Fascism Could Be Next w/ Clara Mattei

Mar 16, 2026

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Do Your Own Research: Welcome to the Slavery-Driven Slop Economy w/ Marek Poliks

Mar 14, 2026

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Death in Westminster: 4. The Tunnel

Mar 10, 2026

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Death in Westminster: 3. The City

Mar 10, 2026

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Death in Westminster: 2. The Island

Mar 10, 2026

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Death in Westminster: 1. The Station

Mar 10, 2026

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Downstream: We Are Witnessing the Return of Empires & the End of Nations w/ Rana Dasgupta

Mar 9, 2026

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ACFM Microdose: The Green Party

Mar 8, 2026

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Do Your Own Research: The Israel-ification of the US Military w/ Susannah Glickman

Mar 7, 2026

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Downstream: The Next Shocks Will Hit Wealthy Countries Hardest. Here’s Why w/ John Rapley

Mar 2, 2026

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Do Your Own Research: Seed Oils, the CIA, and the Metabolic Shitshow w/ Jason Moore

Feb 28, 2026

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Downstream: How the Democrats Abandoned Working People w/ Eric Schlosser

Feb 23, 2026

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ACFM Trip 57: Ecology

Feb 22, 2026

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Do Your Own Research: Megafarms and Megafamines: Secrets of the Global Food System w/ Charles C. Mann

Feb 16, 2026

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Downstream: Mandelson & the Perverted Fantasies of New Labour Liberalism w/ Maurice Glasman

Feb 16, 2026

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Downstream: Vape Shops, Crypto and Luxury Watches: How Money Laundering Is Everywhere w/ Oliver Bullough

Feb 9, 2026

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Downstream: China, AI and the West’s Free Speech Crackdown w/ Ai Weiwei

Feb 2, 2026

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Downstream: 2008 Whistleblower on the Next Big Crash w/ Ann Pettifor

Jan 26, 2026

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Downstream: Exposing the Lies of the 20th Century w/ Tariq Ali

Jan 19, 2026

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Downstream: Venezuela, China and the End of the Dollar w/ Glenn Greenwald

Jan 12, 2026

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Downstream: Exposing the Israeli Capture of British Politics w/ Peter Oborne

Jan 5, 2026

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Downstream: 2025: What Actually Happened? w/ Ash Sarkar and Aaron Bastani

Dec 29, 2025

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Downstream: ‘Gaza Is Over, It’s Gone. There’s Nothing Left’ w/ Norman Finkelstein

Dec 22, 2025

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ACFM Microdose: The ‘Radical Realists’ of Mainstream, Labour’s New Faction

Dec 21, 2025

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Downstream: The Truth About Hamas, October 7th & Israel’s Ongoing Genocide w/ Tareq Baconi

Dec 15, 2025

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92: Should we say something about women’s shrinking bodies?

Dec 9, 2025

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Downstream: The Plan is to Make the Internet Worse Forever w/ Cory Doctorow

Dec 8, 2025

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ACFM Trip 56: The Mainstream

Dec 7, 2025

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Downstream: How to Create A Revolution w/ Roger Hallam

Dec 1, 2025

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Downstream: Zack Polanski Is Coming for Starmer and Farage

Nov 24, 2025

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Downstream: Ex-World Bank Insider on Western Decline & the Chinese World Order w/ Branko Milanovic

Nov 17, 2025

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Downstream: The Dark Truth About Starmer’s Rise to Power w/ Paul Holden

Nov 11, 2025

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Downstream: Putin’s War in Ukraine Has Ancient Roots w/ Serhii Plokhy

Nov 3, 2025

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ACFM Microdose: What’s Going On With Your Party?

Nov 2, 2025

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Downstream: The West Misunderstands Iran w/ Vali Nasr

Oct 27, 2025

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

Oct 22, 2025

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

Oct 20, 2025

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ACFM Trip 55: Parties

Oct 19, 2025

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Downstream: Democracy Is Under Massive Threat From AI w/ William MacAskill

Oct 13, 2025

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

Oct 6, 2025

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

Sep 29, 2025

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ACFM Microdose: Sci-Fi

Sep 28, 2025

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

Sep 22, 2025

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ACFM Trip 54: The Future

Sep 21, 2025

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Downstream: The Political Possibilities of the Ancient World w/ Josephine Quinn

Sep 15, 2025

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

Sep 8, 2025

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Downstream: Infinite Growth Will Lead to Collapse w/ Jason Hickel

Sep 1, 2025

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ACFM Microdose: Gardening

Aug 31, 2025

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Downstream: China Is Building While the West Crumbles w/ Dan Wang

Aug 25, 2025

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Downstream: A Reckoning Is Coming For The Establishment Over Gaza w/ Owen Jones

Aug 18, 2025

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

Aug 11, 2025

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

Aug 7, 2025

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Downstream: The Real Reason Millennials Are Screwed w/ Eliza Filby

Aug 4, 2025

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ACFM Trip 53: Growth

Aug 3, 2025

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Downstream: Ash Sarkar meets Gerry Adams

Jul 28, 2025

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Novara FM: Does the Palestine Action Ban Signal the Decline of Liberalism in Britain? w/ Simon Childs

Jul 24, 2025

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Downstream: India Was the Epicentre of the Ancient World w/ William Dalrymple

Jul 21, 2025

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Downstream: Trump & Musk Could Start a Global Meltdown w/ Michael Lewis

Jul 14, 2025

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ACFM Microdose: Social Reproduction

Jul 13, 2025

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Downstream: Masculinity, Modern Love, and Mental Health w/ Blindboy

Jul 7, 2025

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Novara FM: ICE Is Ramping Up. LA Fought Back w/ Harsha Walia

Jul 4, 2025

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Downstream: Exposing The True Costs of AI w/ Karen Hao

Jul 1, 2025

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ACFM Trip 52: Cleaning

Jun 29, 2025

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

Jun 25, 2025

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

Jun 23, 2025

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

Jun 19, 2025

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

Jun 16, 2025

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Novara FM: How to Redistribute the Globe w/ Jo Guldi

Jun 13, 2025

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

Jun 10, 2025

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Novara FM: Palantir Technologies and the Age of Automated Genocide w/ Matt Mahmoudi

Jun 5, 2025

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Downstream: Britain’s Most Powerful Multi-Millionaire Hippy w/ Dale Vince

Jun 2, 2025

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ACFM Microdose: Superheroes

Jun 2, 2025

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

May 29, 2025

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Novara FM: The New Party, Beyond London w/ Pamela Fitzpatrick, Jamie Driscoll and Shockat Adam

May 27, 2025

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Downstream: How to Be a Morally Effective Person w/ Rutger Bregman

May 26, 2025

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Novara FM: What Communism Actually Is w/ Jasper Bernes

May 22, 2025

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Downstream: Big Tech Is Making Our Children Depressed and Anxious. Here’s How w/ Jonathan Haidt

May 19, 2025

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ACFM Trip 51: Heroes

May 18, 2025

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Novara FM: Are India and Pakistan Gambling with Nuclear War? w/ Mohamad Junaid

May 15, 2025

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Downstream: Why the Left Fails to Connect With People w/ Jimmy The Giant

May 12, 2025

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Novara Debates: Are Labour Doomed?

May 10, 2025

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Novara Debates: Can Reform Win A General Election?

May 9, 2025

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Novara FM: A New Era For The World’s Billion Catholics w/ Matthew Sitman

May 8, 2025

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Downstream: Is Christianity Back? Gen Z’s Search For Meaning w/ Lamorna Ash

May 5, 2025

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Local Election Results REACT With Aaron + Michael

May 2, 2025

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Committed: 4. Was Prison Worth It?

May 2, 2025

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Committed: 3. How Does It Feel When They Choose Activism Over You?

Apr 29, 2025

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Downstream: Does International Law Even Work? w/ Kenneth Roth

Apr 28, 2025

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ACFM Microdose: Make Way For Winged Eros!

Apr 27, 2025

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Committed: 2. How Do Climate Activists Cope in Prison?

Apr 24, 2025

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Committed: 1. What Kind of Person Goes to Prison for Their Politics?

Apr 22, 2025

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Downstream: Has Israel Become A Fascist State? w/ Ilan Pappé

Apr 21, 2025

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Committed: A New Series Out Now

Apr 18, 2025

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Downstream: What’s The Real Point of Trump’s Tariffs? w/ Slavoj Žižek

Apr 16, 2025

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Novara FM: How the West Tried to Co-opt Iranian Feminism w/ Bahar Noorizadeh

Apr 10, 2025

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Downstream: On Palestine, Prisons and British Vs. American Racism w/ Ta-Nehisi Coates

Apr 7, 2025

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Novara FM: How Forensic Architecture Mapped the Gaza Genocide w/ Samaneh Moafi

Apr 3, 2025

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Downstream: This Much We Agree On: Britain Is In Decline w/ Peter Hitchens

Mar 31, 2025

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ACFM Trip 50: Fifty Shades of Acid

Mar 30, 2025

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Novara FM: Geoengineering is Coming Whether We Like it Or Not w/ Laurie Laybourn

Mar 27, 2025

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Downstream: The British Military is Actively Involved in the Gaza Genocide w/ Matt Kennard

Mar 24, 2025

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Novara FM: Is This What Neofeudalism Looks Like? w/ Jodi Dean

Mar 20, 2025

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Downstream: We Have to Break Up With The USA w/ Angus Hanton

Mar 17, 2025

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Novara FM: Rojava After Assad: Where Next for the Kurdish Struggle? w/ Elif Sarican

Mar 13, 2025

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Novara FM: The Absurdity of Rearmament w/ Khem Rogaly

Mar 11, 2025

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Downstream: Why Don’t We Have Any Hope? w/ Jonathan White

Mar 11, 2025

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ACFM Microdose: Making Art in a World on Fire w/ Amber Massie-Blomfield

Mar 9, 2025

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Novara FM: Did Pandemics Make the Modern World?

Mar 6, 2025

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Downstream: Everything We’re Told About the History of the West Is Wrong w/ Josephine Quinn

Mar 3, 2025

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Novara FM: The Decades Long Plan that Made Trump Possible w/ David Adler

Feb 27, 2025

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Downstream: Europe’s Political Elite Are Completely Finished w/ Philip Pilkington

Feb 24, 2025

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Novara FM: The Green Party vs Something New w/ James Schneider and Zack Polanski

Feb 21, 2025

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Downstream: This Is Why the Right Are Winning w/ Ash Sarkar

Feb 17, 2025

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Novara FM: Against Assisted Dying w/ Ellen Clifford

Feb 13, 2025

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Downstream: Elon Musk Wants to Be Napoleon w/ Will Davies

Feb 10, 2025

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Downstream: Why Are So Many People Lonely? w/ Shon Faye

Feb 3, 2025

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ACFM Microdose: Making Sense of Sovereign Debt w/ Heidi Chow

Feb 2, 2025

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Novara FM: Time for a New Left Party? w/ Oliver Eagleton, Rachel Godfrey Wood and Joe Todd

Jan 30, 2025

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Downstream: Everything They Tell You About the Economy Is Wrong w/ Gary Stevenson

Jan 27, 2025

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ACFM Trip 49: Debt

Jan 26, 2025

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Novara FM: What Will ‘Technoking’ Elon Musk Do in the White House? w/ Quinn Slobodian

Jan 23, 2025

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Downstream: Who’s Behind the Institute of Economic Affairs? w/ Kristian Niemietz

Jan 21, 2025

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Downstream: Woke Capitalism Just Collapsed. Here’s Why w/ Brett Christophers

Jan 16, 2025

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ACFM Microdose: The Communist Manifesto

Jan 3, 2025

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Novara FM: Why The Left Needs To Care About Crypto w/ Sam Hart

Jan 2, 2025

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Novara FM: Love Actually w/ Nathalie Olah

Dec 24, 2024

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Downstream: 2024 Round Up: Gaza, Starmer and the Death of Woke

Dec 23, 2024

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Novara FM: Die Hard w/ James Butler

Dec 19, 2024

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Downstream: Is Germany’s Economy Heading for Collapse? w/ Wolfgang Münchau

Dec 16, 2024

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Novara FM: We Need a New Wikileaks w/ Stefania Maurizi

Dec 13, 2024

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Downstream: The Journalist Who Spent A Year With The Taliban w/ Ibrahim Nash’at

Dec 9, 2024

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ACFM Trip 48: Political Commitment

Dec 8, 2024

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Novara FM: The New Scramble for Africa in the Vacuum of Empire w/ James Pogue

Dec 5, 2024

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Downstream: Humans Could Become Immortal This Century w/ Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston

Dec 2, 2024

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Novara FM: Protect or Punish? The Stakes of Sex Worker Activism w/ Laura Watson

Nov 28, 2024

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Downstream: Trains Are Better Than Cars. Here’s Why w/ Gareth Dennis

Nov 25, 2024

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Novara FM: The New Space Race Is an Arms Race w/ Daniel Deudney

Nov 22, 2024

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Downstream IRL: There’s No Such Thing As Green Capitalism w/ Andreas Malm

Nov 18, 2024

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ACFM Trip 47: Disruption

Nov 17, 2024

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Novara FM: How MAGA Went Mainstream w/ Joshua Citarella

Nov 15, 2024

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Downstream: What the Roman Empire Tells Us About the Collapse of the West W/ Peter Heather and John Rapley

Nov 13, 2024

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Novara FM: What’s Next for AI Now It’s Ingested the Entire Internet? w/ Marek Poliks

Nov 7, 2024

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Downstream: Could Israel Become A Failed State? w/ Ilan Pappé

Nov 5, 2024

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Novara FM: How Do We Liberate People From Bad Ideas? w/ adrienne maree brown

Oct 31, 2024

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Downstream: How War, Trade and Farming Changed the Planet Forever w/ Sunil Amrith

Oct 28, 2024

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Novara FM: The Age of Disaster Nationalism w/ Richard Seymour

Oct 24, 2024

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Downstream: Insects Are Disappearing and We Should Be Very Worried w/ Dave Goulson

Oct 22, 2024

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Novara FM: Understanding Hezbollah, Israel’s ‘Best Enemy’ w/ Elia Ayoub

Oct 17, 2024

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Downstream: Do We Really Need to Tax the Rich? w/ Stephanie Kelton

Oct 14, 2024

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ACFM Trip 46: Death

Oct 13, 2024

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Novara FM: When Does A Crowd Become A Mob? w/ Dan Hancox

Oct 10, 2024

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Downstream: Everything You Need to Know About China & Xi Jinping w/ Olivia Cheung

Oct 9, 2024

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Novara FM: How the British State Is Trying to Crush the Palestine Movement

Oct 3, 2024

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Downstream: India Was the Epicentre of the Ancient World w/ William Dalrymple

Oct 1, 2024

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Novara FM: Our New Cyberboss Overlords w/ Craig Gent

Sep 27, 2024

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Downstream: The UK’s Landowning Elite Are Destroying the Countryside w/ Guy Shrubsole

Sep 23, 2024

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Downstream: This Is the Reality for Palestinian Christians w/ Dr. Munther Isaac

Sep 16, 2024

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ACFM Microdose: The Joy Of Fascism

Sep 15, 2024

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Novara FM: Mourn the Dead, Fight Like Hell for the Living w/ Sarah Jaffe

Sep 12, 2024

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Downstream: We Have Enabled Putin w/ Anne Appelbaum

Sep 10, 2024

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Novara FM: Motherhood In and Against the State w/ Helen Charman

Aug 29, 2024

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ACFM Trip 45: Holidays

Aug 25, 2024

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Novara FM: Clean Energy Is Already Terraforming the Earth w/ Thea Riofrancos

Aug 22, 2024

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Downstream: Is Humanity Really Heading for Population Collapse?! w/ Paul Morland

Aug 20, 2024

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Novara FM: Fear and Loathing in Silicon Valley w/ Malcolm Harris

Aug 15, 2024

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Downstream: Can The Green Party Keep Winning? w/ Carla Denyer

Aug 5, 2024

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ACFM Trip 44: Humility

Aug 4, 2024

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Downstream: Arab Jews, The Hidden History w/ Avi Shlaim

Jul 22, 2024

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Pro Revolution Soccer 2.6: The Misfit Visionaries Who Invented Modern Football

Jul 16, 2024

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Downstream: Party Politics is Broken w/ Jeremy Corbyn

Jul 15, 2024

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Novara FM: Macron’s Own Goal w/ Olly Haynes

Jul 11, 2024

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Pro Revolution Soccer 2.5: Can Football Be Part of Political Resistance?

Jul 10, 2024

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ACFM Microdose: Election ’24 Vibecheck

Jul 9, 2024

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Downstream: Here’s How America Really Runs Britain w/ Angus Hanton

Jul 8, 2024

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Novara FM: Britain is Broken. Can Anyone Fix It? w/ Dom Davies

Jul 4, 2024

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Pro Revolution Soccer 2.4: In the Iron Grip of the Big Five

Jul 3, 2024

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Downstream: This Is How Propaganda Actually Works w/ Matt Kennard

Jul 1, 2024

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Novara FM: Britain At A Crossroads w/ James Butler

Jun 28, 2024

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Pro Revolution Soccer 2.3: Who Runs Football? w/ David Goldblatt

Jun 28, 2024

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Downstream: The Israel Lobby Is Real. Here’s Exactly How It Works w/ Illan Pappé

Jun 26, 2024

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Downstream: ‘We Have to Vote Labour’ w/ Mick Lynch

Jun 25, 2024

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Downstream: The Tories Are Done and They Won’t Be Coming Back w/ Peter Oborne

Jun 25, 2024

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Novara FM: How Labour’s Left-Wing Firebrands Fought Back w/ Andy Beckett

Jun 25, 2024

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Novara FM: Where Will Labour Invade This Time? w/ David Wearing

Jun 20, 2024

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Pro Revolution Soccer 2.2: Can Football Explain the Far-Right Resurgence in Europe?

Jun 19, 2024

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Novara FM: Whatever Happened to the Israeli Left? w/ Noam Shuster-Eliassi and Haggai Matar

Jun 13, 2024

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Pro Revolution Soccer 2.1: Euro 2024 Reboot

Jun 12, 2024

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ACFM Microdose: Notes on Camp

Jun 9, 2024

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Downstream: Everything You’re Told About Green Capitalism is Wrong w/ Brett Christophers

Jun 3, 2024

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Novara FM: The Right Is Getting Real On Climate. Can We? w/ Ajay Singh Chaudhary

May 30, 2024

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Downstream: Is India Really a Democracy? w/ Alpa Shah

May 27, 2024

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ACFM Trip 43: Cool

May 26, 2024

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Novara FM: How Trans Misogyny Works w/ Jules Gill-Peterson

May 23, 2024

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Novara Live: Rishi Sunak Announces July General Election

May 23, 2024

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Downstream: The Truth About Incels w/ William Costello

May 20, 2024

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Novara FM: Living Through the Chinese Miracle w/ Yuan Yang

May 16, 2024

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Downstream: Individualism is Destroying Our Freedom w/ Grace Blakeley

May 13, 2024

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Novara FM: Know Your Enemies w/ Matthew Sitman & Sam Adler-Bell

May 10, 2024

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Downstream: George Galloway’s Plan to Destroy the Labour Party

May 5, 2024

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ACFM Microdose: Reactionary Democracy w/ Aaron Winter & Aurelien Mondon

May 5, 2024

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Novara FM: Your Neighbour Kills Puppies w/ Tom Harris

May 2, 2024

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Downstream: How Austerity Harms Britain’s Most Vulnerable Children w/ Teresa Thornhill

Apr 29, 2024

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Novara FM: Read Some Effing Jameson! w/ Sianne Ngai and Matthew Beaumont

Apr 25, 2024

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Downstream: This Is How Israel Controls Palestinians w/ Eyal Weizman

Apr 22, 2024

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ACFM Trip 42: Fascism

Apr 21, 2024

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Novara FM: London’s Endless Appetite w/ Jonathan Nunn and Amardeep Singh Dhillon

Apr 18, 2024

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Novara FM: Colonial Capitalism Has Made Us Sick w/ Rupa Marya & Raj Patel

Apr 11, 2024

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Downstream: Israelis Want Genocide w/ Abby Martin

Apr 8, 2024

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Novara FM: What’s Really Causing the Housing Crisis? w/ Nick Bano

Apr 4, 2024

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Downstream IRL: This Ideology Threatens Our Fundamental Freedoms w/ Judith Butler

Apr 1, 2024

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Downstream: We Are Getting Foreign Policy Very Wrong w/ Steve Coll

Mar 25, 2024

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Novara FM: Critical Theorists Hate This One Weird Trick w/ Anna Kornbluh

Mar 21, 2024

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Downstream: On Gaza, Grammar Schools and British War Crimes w/ Peter Hitchens

Mar 18, 2024

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ACFM Trip 41: Trust Your Gut

Mar 17, 2024

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Novara FM: The Untold Histories of Black Gay Britain w/ Jason Okundaye

Mar 13, 2024

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Downstream: Retired Major-General on Gaza, Iraq and Afghanistan w/ Charlie Herbert

Mar 11, 2024

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Novara FM: Not Westminster’s Whipping Boys w/ Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram

Mar 7, 2024

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Downstream: Britain’s Economy Will Only Get Worse Forever w/ Gary Stevenson

Mar 4, 2024

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Novara FM: Russia After Navalny w/ Tony Wood

Mar 1, 2024

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Downstream IRL: We Are in a New Cold War w/ Yanis Varoufakis

Feb 26, 2024

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ACFM Microdose: Aliens On Screen

Feb 25, 2024

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Novara FM: The Nasty Noughties w/ Owen Hatherley & Ash Sarkar

Feb 22, 2024

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The US Must Stop Funding Israel | Bernie Sanders meets Ash Sarkar

Feb 20, 2024

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Downstream: Israel Will Never Be Safe While Occupying Palestine w/ Yousef Alhelou

Feb 19, 2024

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Novara FM: Can International Law Protect Gaza? w/ Rob Knox

Feb 15, 2024

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Novara FM: How To Be Honest About Empire w/ Sathnam Sanghera

Feb 8, 2024

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Downstream: Why No One Should Have More Than £10 Million w/ Ingrid Robeyns

Feb 5, 2024

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ACFM Trip 40: UFOs

Feb 4, 2024

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Downstream: Would the World Be Better Without Religion? w/ Aaron Bastani and Ash Sarkar

Jan 29, 2024

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Novara FM: Who Dares To Rewrite 40,000 Years of History? w/ David Wengrow

Jan 25, 2024

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Downstream: Everything You Know About The Global Economy is Wrong w/ Philip Pilkington

Jan 22, 2024

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ACFM Microdose: Plugged-in Protest w/ Jeremy Gilbert

Jan 21, 2024

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Novara FM: The Novels That Inspired Class War w/ Mark Steven

Jan 19, 2024

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Downstream: We Are in the Post-Climate Change World w/ Gaia Vince

Jan 15, 2024

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Novara FM: Escaping the Tourism Trap w/ Dean MacCannell

Jan 11, 2024

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Downstream: White Holes and Radical Politics w/ Carlo Rovelli

Jan 1, 2024

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Dec 28, 2023

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Dec 24, 2023

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ACFM Microdose: A Festive 50 For 2023

Dec 22, 2023

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Novara FM: It’s A Wonderful Life w/ James Butler

Dec 21, 2023

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Downstream: The Plan To Privatise Everything w/ Brett Christophers

Dec 18, 2023

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ACFM Trip 39: Protest

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Downstream: Former Scottish Leader: How My Family Escaped Gaza & Why I Can’t Forgive Starmer w/ Humza Yousaf

Do Your Own Research: The Chinese Company That Terrifies the West w/ Eva Dou

Downstream: Trauma Farming and the Politics of Public Suffering w/ Catherine Liu

Do Your Own Research: Secrets of the Chinese Internet w/ Tianyu Fang

Downstream: Porn Addiction Defines Our Political Age. Here’s How w/ Ash Sarkar

ACFM Microdose: Reading The Society of the Spectacle

Downstream: AI Will Destroy Liberal Democracy w/ Daron Acemoglu

Downstream: The Next Big Shock Is Coming. Green Energy Is the Only Way Out w/ Tessa Khan

ACFM Trip 63: Situationism

Downstream: The Big AI Lie w/ Cory Doctorow

Downstream: Multiculturalism Will Save the Working Class w/ Jonas Patrick Marvin

Downstream: Elites Have No Plan for Climate Change w/ Bill McGuire

Downstream: The Journalist Who Terrifies Corporate America w/ Amy Goodman

ACFM Microdose: How Britain’s Coastal Communities are Reclaiming Power w/ Hazel Sheffield

Downstream: Ex-Oil Engineer Turned Climate Whistleblower: “We Face Collapse” w/ Kevin Anderson

ACFM 62: The Beach

Downstream: The West is Over. Here’s Why w/ Pankaj Mishra

Do Your Own Research: Is This Podcast the Problem? w/ Joshua Citarella

Burnham Vows To Tackle Youth Unemployment

Downstream: Who Profits From Genocide? w/ Andrew Feinstein

Do Your Own Research: What JD Vance and Tucker Carlson Actually Believe w/ James Pogue

Downstream: You Will Rent Forever. Here’s Why. w/ Peter Apps

Downstream: The Middle Class Will Collapse Unless We Tax the Rich w/ Gary Stevenson

ACFM Microdose: Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations

Do Your Own Research: The True Cost of AI Girlfriends w/ James Muldoon

Downstream: Who Really Won the War on Drugs? w/ Kojo Koram

119: I know I should forgive my enemies… but what if I don’t want to?

Do Your Own Research: How China Wins the Resource War w/ Thea Riofrancos

Downstream: Governments Do Capitalism Wrong. Here’s How We Fix It. w/ Mariana Mazzucato

ACFM Trip 61: Resilience

Downstream: What the US-Iran Peace Negotiations are Really About w/ Daniel Levy

Do Your Own Research: How Private Equity Bought the World w/ Hettie O’Brien

Downstream: The Truth About the US Military w/ Matt Kennard

Do Your Own Research: Israel Is Literally Burying Evidence of Its Genocide w/ Eyal Weizman

Downstream: AI Billionaires Want to Control Every Aspect of Your Life w/ Karen Hao

ACFM Microdose: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Do Your Own Research: From the Bible to ChatBots: A History of Psyops w/ Trevor Paglen

Downstream: The Woman Who Invented Intersectionality w/ Kimberlé Crenshaw

Do Your Own Research: AI Is Not A Bubble. The Reality Is Far Worse w/ Garrison Lovely

Downstream: Top Economist Exposes Inequality Death Spiral w/ Gabriel Zucman

Do Your Own Research: The Scandal of the Century? Hondurasgate Explained w/ David Adler

ACFM Trip 60: Shock!

Downstream: British Politics Is in Meltdown. Here’s Why w/ James Butler

Do Your Own Research: Do Androids Dream of Human Rights? w/ Lisa Siraganian

Downstream: The Most Influential Leftist You’ve Never Heard Of w/ Peter Mertens

ACFM Microdose: New Weird Britain

Do Your Own Research: What the World’s Most Famous Marxist Really Thinks of Zohran Mamdani w/ David Harvey

Downstream: British Politics Is About to Collapse w/ James Meadway

Do Your Own Research: How The Far Right Captured British Politics w/ Daniel Trilling

Downstream: The Truth About Smartphones’ Dirty Supply Chain w/ Nicholas Niarchos

Do Your Own Research: You Can’t Have Billionaires and Democracy. Ancient Collapse Proves It. w/ Luke Kemp

Downstream: Europe’s Ancient Myths, Current Crises & Future Possibilities w/ Roderick Beaton

The Human Cost of Britain’s Dark Money Industry w/ Peter Geoghegan & Stephanie Brobbey

Downstream: The Secrets of the Chinese Internet w/ Yi-Ling Liu

ACFM Trip 59: Hobbies

Do Your Own Research: The Iran War Will Collapse the American Empire w/ Alfred McCoy

Iran Threatens Retaliation Against Trump’s Criminal Threats

Downstream: Is Liberalism Finally Waking Up to the Crises it has Caused? w/ Adrian Wooldridge

The Greens WILL Beat Labour w/ Hannah Spencer and Faiza Shaheen

ACFM Trip 58: Boredom

Do Your Own Research: Isolated, Scared, and Furious: Welcome to the Age of Hyperpolitics

Downstream: The Right Is Winning. Here’s How We Change That w/ Ash Sarkar

Do Your Own Research: How Musk’s Paranoid Empire Really Works w/ Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff

Downstream: The Middle Class Is Collapsing. Fascism Could Be Next w/ Clara Mattei

Do Your Own Research: Welcome to the Slavery-Driven Slop Economy w/ Marek Poliks

Death in Westminster: 4. The Tunnel

Death in Westminster: 3. The City

Death in Westminster: 2. The Island

Death in Westminster: 1. The Station

Downstream: We Are Witnessing the Return of Empires & the End of Nations w/ Rana Dasgupta

ACFM Microdose: The Green Party

Do Your Own Research: The Israel-ification of the US Military w/ Susannah Glickman

Downstream: The Next Shocks Will Hit Wealthy Countries Hardest. Here’s Why w/ John Rapley

Do Your Own Research: Seed Oils, the CIA, and the Metabolic Shitshow w/ Jason Moore

Downstream: How the Democrats Abandoned Working People w/ Eric Schlosser

ACFM Trip 57: Ecology

Do Your Own Research: Megafarms and Megafamines: Secrets of the Global Food System w/ Charles C. Mann