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Novara Media is an independent media organisation addressing the issues—from a crisis of capitalism to racism and climate change—that are set to define the 21st century.
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Downstream: The West is Poor, Africa is Rich w/ George The Poet
George The Poet is a poet and author best known for his acclaimed BBC audio series, Have You Heard George’s Podcast? He joins Ash for an expansive conversation about his journey from grime MC to poet to academic, how Black music lost its radical politics, and how his politics was radically reshaped when he started […]
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Novara FM: Colonial Capitalism Has Made Us Sick w/ Rupa Marya & Raj Patel
Centuries of colonial capitalism have reordered life on the planet and inside our bodies, from industrial farming and the uneven advances of modern medicine, to night shifts, chronic stress and inflammation. Has the system made us sick? That’s the concern of Rupa Marya and Raj Patel, who join Eleanor Penny to talk about the history […]
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Downstream: Israelis Want Genocide w/ Abby Martin
Abby Martin is an American journalist and activist, host of the interview series The Empire Files, and a co-founder of the citizen journalism website Media Roots. She joins Ash Sarkar to discuss her political journey after 9/11, working for the state broadcaster Russia Today, how Israelis really talk about Palestinians, and why she believes the […]
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Novara FM: What’s Really Causing the Housing Crisis? w/ Nick Bano
Why is it so expensive to rent in the UK? In a divisive new book, barrister Nick Bano places the blame squarely on price-gouging landlords, rejecting the conventional wisdom that calls for more new housing as a solution to the crisis. He goes head to head with Novara Live’s Michael Walker to explain the thinking […]
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Downstream IRL: This Ideology Threatens Our Fundamental Freedoms w/ Judith Butler
For a special edition of Downstream IRL, Ash Sarkar is joined by philosopher, author, and one of the world’s most cited academics, Judith Butler. Their new book, ‘Who’s Afraid of Gender’ charts how a transphobic moral panic morphed into an all-our war on so-called ‘gender ideology’. Together, Ash and Judith explore how Britain became TERF […]
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Downstream: We Are Getting Foreign Policy Very Wrong w/ Steve Coll
With hindsight, the wars waged by the US and Britain in Afghanistan and Iraq look like terrible failures, both strategically and politically: the Taliban are back in power in Afghanistan, and living standards are worse in Iraq than they were before Saddam Hussein. In his new book The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the United States […]
Customer Reviews
Mixed bag but some excellent episodes
Some fantastic conversations with authors of popular economics and other texts mean I want to give Novara 5 stars. Some episodes however don't interest me as much. Seems to be fewer, shorter episodes here on apple than what's available on YouTube.
I'm concerned the channel might be a bit over intellectual for general public, unexplained references to Shakespeare in a discussion of It's a Wonderful Life for example went way over my head
Well Sourced, well done
A wicked resource to stay informed of the most relevant and prominent issues.
not great research
smugger than the far right they denounce but as poorly researched