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The EI Podcast

The EI Podcast

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 The EI Podcast brings you weekly conversations and audio essays from leading writers, thinkers and historians. Hosted by Alastair Benn and Paul Lay. Find the EI Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or search The EI Podcast wherever you get your podcasts.Copyright 2020. Engelsberg Ideas - All Rights Reserved. Art Political Science Politics & Government World
Episodes
  • When Edo became Tokyo

    When Edo became Tokyo
    Feb 19 2026

    Christopher Harding on the birth of Tokyo. Read by Leighton Pugh.

    Image: A woodblock print by Utagawa Hiroshige. From One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, 1856. Credit: incamerastock / Alamy Stock Photo

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    20 mins
  • Hamlet unravelled

    Hamlet unravelled
    Feb 12 2026

    Emma Smith, Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Oxford University, explores Hamlet and its rich critical history with EI’s Alastair Benn and Paul Lay.

    Image: Laurence Olivier plays Hamlet in 1948. Credit: Masheter Movie Archive
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    51 mins
  • The making of Xi Jinping's worldview

    The making of Xi Jinping's worldview
    Feb 5 2026

    Rana Mitter explores Xi Jinping’s personal and ideological mindset in conversation with EI’s Jack Dickens.

    Image: Then Vice President Xi Jinping makes an address in preparation for the 2008 Olympics. Credit: Imago
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    1 hr and 13 mins
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