Episodios

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

    Downstream: The Ancient Indian History Our Schools Don’t Teach w/ William Dalrymple
    Aug 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 conversation at the crossroads of empire, resistance, and the long shadows of colonialism. From the rich histories traced in The Golden Road to […]
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    1 h y 6 m
  • Novara FM: Where Did Novara Media Come From? w/ Aaron Bastani, James Butler and Ash Sarkar

    Novara FM: Where Did Novara Media Come From? w/ Aaron Bastani, James Butler and Ash Sarkar
    Aug 7 2025
    Novara FM was Novara Media’s first show – it’s 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. What have we learned from a decade and a half fighting a media landscape that insists nothing […]
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    1 h y 41 m
  • Downstream: The Real Reason Millennials Are Screwed w/ Eliza Filby

    Downstream: The Real Reason Millennials Are Screwed w/ Eliza Filby
    Aug 4 2025
    Dr Eliza Filby is a historian and author of the bestselling book Inheritocracy: It’s Time to Talk About the Bank of Mum and Dad. In conversation with Ash Sarkar, Dr Filby draws on her own life story, growing up in South London with parents who went from communists to Thatcherites in the 1980s. She debunks […]
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    1 h y 15 m
  • ACFM Trip 53: Growth

    ACFM Trip 53: Growth
    Aug 3 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 out of resources? Nadia, Keir and Jem offer their weird-left take on growth, degrowth, radical abundance, ecomodernism […]
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    1 h y 22 m
  • Downstream: Ash Sarkar meets Gerry Adams

    Downstream: Ash Sarkar meets Gerry Adams
    Jul 28 2025
    This interview would once have been illegal to broadcast in the UK. For many, Gerry Adams is a peacemaker, but for others he remains inseparable from the violence and trauma of the Troubles. Ash Sarkar travels to the James Connolly Centre in West Belfast to talk to Adams about the slow rise of his party, […]
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    1 h y 16 m
  • Novara FM: Does the Palestine Action Ban Signal the Decline of Liberalism in Britain? w/ Simon Childs

    Novara FM: Does the Palestine Action Ban Signal the Decline of Liberalism in Britain? w/ Simon Childs
    Jul 24 2025
    Is the UK still a liberal country? With terrorism laws criminalising speech around Palestine Action, it’s a serious question. A growing gulf between public opinion and state policy on Gaza reveals a liberal order in decline. Richard Hames spoke to Simon Childs about where our society is going.
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    1 h y 34 m
  • Downstream: India Was the Epicentre of the Ancient World w/ William Dalrymple

    Downstream: India Was the Epicentre of the Ancient World w/ William Dalrymple
    Jul 21 2025
    The Silk Road has dominated the way we imagine the trading relationship between Europe and Asia to have worked in antiquity. In his new book, The Golden Road, William Dalrymple busts that myth. He sat down with Ash to talk about the origins of algebra, Indian gems in Anglo-Saxon Britain and why Genghis Khan was […]
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    52 m
  • Downstream: Trump & Musk Could Start a Global Meltdown w/ Michael Lewis

    Downstream: Trump & Musk Could Start a Global Meltdown w/ Michael Lewis
    Jul 14 2025
    Michael Lewis is an American author, journalist, and former bond trader. His best-known book, The Big Short, explains the 2000s US housing bubble and helped many people understand the 2008 financial crisis. In this interview, Lewis speaks with Aaron Bastani about his latest book, a collection of essays on federal government employees. Lewis finds that […]
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    1 h y 4 m