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by Omid Ashtari & Natascha McElhone · English
Explorations of topics about society, culture, arts, technology and science with your hosts Natascha McElhone and Omid Ashtari. The spirit of this podcast is to interview people from all walks of life on different subjects. Our hope is to talk about ideas, divorced from our identities - listening, learning and maybe meeting somewhere in the middle. The perfect audio diet for shallow polymaths! Natascha McElhone is an actor and producer. Omid Ashtari is a tech entrepreneur and angel investor.
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On Persevilience with Alastair Campbell
Alastair Campbell’s new concept “Percivillians” (from his book Percivillians, the word the world needs now) for turning setbacks into generative growth.
4 Nov 2026 · 1h 4m · 34 chaptersOn Censorship with Marc Levy
Marc Levy argues that US book censorship is driven by authoritarian “playbooks” that rely on ignorance and fear, and that books are an antidote because they expand empathy, nuance, and vocabulary.
21 Oct 2026 · 58m · 25 chaptersOn Autocracy with Anne Applebaum
Anne Applebaum argues that modern autocracies cooperate without sharing ideology, behaving like a corporate network that trades drones, weapons, markets, and propaganda while hiding stolen money…
7 Oct 2026 · 57m · 28 chaptersOn Prophecy with Carissa Veliz
Carissa Véliz argues that AI and other powerful actors function like “the new Oracle of Delphi” by turning predictions into instruments of power.
23 Sep 2026 · 52m · 21 chaptersOn Discovery with James Manyika
AI as a driver of scientific discovery, focusing on protein-structure prediction (AlphaFold), the role of “hallucinations” as creative signals, and the tension between useful prediction vs true…
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