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1984 Today! — 63 episodes

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Survival Is Resistance: Prison, Protest, and The Price of Freedom

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Lawyering Against the Machine: The Human Cost of AI and the Fight for Tech Justice

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Slowly, Then Suddenly: Surveillance, Social Rupture and Citizens’ Consent

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Making The Machine That Makes Us: AI, Consciousness, and Human Creativity

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Democracy In An Age Of Permanent Crisis

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The World Turned Upside Down: England's Puritan Dystopia

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Episode 154: Michael W. Green on Why $140k Is The Real Poverty Line

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Episode 153: Robert Joseph Greene on Censorship and the Hidden History of Gay Romance

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Episode 152: John R. Carlos on Globalism, Technology, and Humanity's Future

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Episode 151: Daniele Bolelli on How A Society Eats Itself

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Episode 150: Graham Linehan on Comedy, Cancellation, and Being Gender-Critical

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Episode 149: Kara Dansky on The Abolition of Sex

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Episode 148: Dr Leslie Gruis on Privacy and Surveillance

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Episode 147: A Tale of Two Protests

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Episode 146: Michael Box and Patrick Hague on Punk Rock Dystopia

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Episode 145: Joe Raiola on Satire, Censorship, and MAD Magazine

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Episode 144: Frank Sanazi on Being A Comedy Dictator

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Episode 143: Shady El Damaty on Reclaiming Digital Privacy

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Episode 142: BeLikeWater on Forecasting and Understanding Probability

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Episode 141: Matthew Feeney on Big Brother in Britain

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Episode 140: Blasphemy in the UK

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Episode 139: Professor Garret Merriam on Ethics and AI in Higher Education

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Episode 138: Julia Boyd on Travellers in the Third Reich

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Episode 137: Leni von Mayn on Voicing Sex Dolls and Sexploration

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Episode 136: Dr Chris Day on His Decade-Long Legal Battle With The NHS

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Episode 135: Velina Tchakarova on Cold War 2.0 and the DragonBear

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Episode 134: Raja Miah MBE on Britain's Grooming Gangs

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Episode 133: Helen Freeman on Britain's Farmer Protests

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Episode 132: Marika Mikiashvili on Resisting Georgia's Burgeoning Authoritarianism

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Episode 131: Jeremy Duffy on Working For The National Security Agency

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Episode 130: Philipp Fussenegger on Creating The World's First AI Brothel

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Episode 129: Richard Sanderson on Getting Cancelled

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Episode 128: Dr Christopher Ferguson on Why Social Media Isn't Bad For Your Kids

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Episode 127: Falak Enayat on Escaping the Taliban

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Episode 126: Nikhil Suresh on the AI Lie and Humanising The Machine

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Episode 125: Victor Miller on Letting AI Take Over The US Government

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US Election Special: Temperature Check

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Episode 124: Tim Schwab on Bill Gates, Dark Money, and Toxic Philanthropy

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Episode 123: Hatun Tash on Free Speech, Two-Tier Policing, and Getting Stabbed For Jesus

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Episode 122: CJ Hopkins and Friedemann Däblitz on Justice, Thought Crime, and State Power

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Episode 121: Sanne Van Oosten on the Surprising Lack of Racist and Sexist Voters

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Summer Special: Exotic Thoughts at Parliament Square

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Episode 120: Emmanuel Goldstein on Surviving Communism, A Gnostic Cult, and A War On His Mind

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Episode 119: Jerry Barnett on Moral Panic, Loss of Reason, and Baiting the Majority

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Episode 118: Christina Dalcher on Writing Dystopian Fiction and Imagining the Worst

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Episode 117: Kashmir Hill on Why Your Face Belongs To Them

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Episode 116: The 'Real' Steve Endacott on Running As The UK's First AI Parliamentary Candidate

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Episode 115: Bjørn Karmann on The Moment That Never Was

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Episode 114: Dr Ashley Frawley on 'Constant Crisis' and Why You're Probably Fine

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Episode 113: Carol Cohn on Life Under Communism and Escaping to the West

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Episode 112: Mark Johnson on Watching Big Brother

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Episode 111: Professor George Church on Genetics and DNA Technology

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Episode 110: Andy Agathangelou on Fixing the Financial System

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Episode 109: Emily Finley on Undemocratic Democracy and the Seeds of Modern Tyranny

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Episode 108: Beatriz Busaniche on Digital Rights and Surveillance in Argentina

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Episode 107: Sergei Loznitsa on Totalitarianism and Truth

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This Is How We Do It: AI Found Me A Wife (Valentine's Day Special)

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Episode 106: Jonathan M. Katz on Substack's 'Nazi Problem', Free Speech, and Modern Journalism

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Episode 105: Tim Boucher on the Fever Dream of the AI Mind

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Episode 104: Elle Griffin on Faith, Hope, and Clarity

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Episode 103: CJ Hopkins on Thought Crime

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Episode 102 - Ken Silva and the Fed Files

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1984 Today! Episode #101 - Dorian Lynskey