From War to Constitution—and the Problem of England
Linda Colley takes James Butler through the age of war and revolution which gave birth to the modern constitution – and peers into England's political future.
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A Plague of Blue Locusts: On Police Power
Mark Neocleous joins James Butler to unravel the knot of police power, sovereignty and social order.
Luddites, Hackers, Saboteurs
'To be a good Marxist is to be a Luddite.' Gavin Mueller joins James Butler to explore rebellions against technology and the seductions of technological thought.
After Storming Heaven
James Butler is joined by Laura Forster to trace the many red threads of the Paris Commune, which began 150 years ago this week.
In the Cookshops of the Future
Peter Hudis joins James Butler to gaze into the future – and explain why the left must stake a claim to it.
Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again
James Butler is joined by Katherine Angel to explore the politics of bad sex, consent culture - and how we might think better about the difficulty of sex and power.
I Am Not My Work
Why are we told we should love our work? Sarah Jaffe joins James Butler to explain why work will never, and can never, love us back.
Capital, Care and Crisis
Emma Dowling joins James Butler to discuss care in the shadow of capital.
Ten Years of #NovaraFM
This year makes it a decade that Novara has been on the air in some form. Join James Butler for a head-spinning trip into the FM archives.
After the Robots: Aaron Benanav on Work, Automation and Utopia
What if the automation theorists are wrong? How might we build utopia without them? Aaron Benanav joins James Butler to gaze into the future.
The Bodies on the Gears: How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Andreas Malm argues in How to Blow Up a Pipeline that the climate movement must act against the infrastructure of death. He joins James Butler to discuss.
Only Pleasure Can Save the Planet
Philosopher Kate Soper joins Clare Hymer to discuss alternative hedonism, political optimism and post-growth living.
Nightmarch: The Inner World of the Naxalites
Alpa Shah spent seven nights on a secret march with communist guerrillas in India. She joins James Butler to tell their story.
Red Flag, South Bank
Owen Hatherley joins James Butler to argue that it's time to reclaim the Red Metropolis.
Maelstrom: Politics in the Post-Truth World
James Butler is joined by Marcus Gilroy-Ware to delve behind the facade of fake news and uncover what lies beneath: from a hollowed-out democracy to the epidemic of conspiracy theory.
After Trump
James Butler is joined by JoAnn Wypijewski and Vivek Chibber to discuss the fallout of the American election.
Taking the Red Pill with Hari Kunzru
Hari Kunzru joins James Butler to discuss his new novel, Red Pill. They talk surveillance capitalism, neofascism, violence and breakdown.
After Barbarism: Rosa Luxemburg’s Revolutionary Life
James Butler is joined by Dana Mills, author of a new critical biography of Rosa Luxemburg, to explore Red Rosa's life, thought and many legacies.