Novara FM: Abolishing Prisons Is Only the Start
How can we build a world that has no need of policing? Rivkah Brown finds out with scholar-activist Ruth Wilson Gilmore.
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Foreign Agent: Lawyers, Guns and Money
When a federal investigation forces a Brooklyn arms smuggler into the limelight, his lawyers come up with a defence so crazy it just might work.
Foreign Agent: The IRA’s Technical Support
In this bonus episode, we meet two American inventors whose homemade weapons aimed to launch the Irish republican campaign into the skies and below the waves.
Foreign Agent: Agents of the State
After Bloody Sunday, Irish Northern Aid sees its power, influence and donations increase drastically – but a raised profile attracts new enemies.
Foreign Agent: The New World and the Old Country
In episode two, Michael Flannery's journey from Tipperary to New York City uncovers the roots of anti-colonial struggle in Ireland.
Foreign Agent: The American Front
When six suitcases full of guns are discovered on an Irish dock in 1971, suspicion falls on an Irish American organisation known as Noraid. The first in a six-part series.
ACFM: Trip 24: Technology
Is technology a fundamental aspect of being human? On this wide-ranging Trip, the gang take on one of their biggest topics yet.
ACFM: Microdose: Women and Technology With Katrine Marçal
Why did it take 5,000 years to put wheels on a suitcase? Nadia Idle meets feminist historian Katrine Marçal.
Novara FM: A Simple Plan to Save the World
Mass rewilding, worldwide socialist planning and universal veganism? It won't be easy but it's our best shot at the good life, say the authors of Half-Earth Socialism.
ACFM: Trip 23: War
Jeremy Gilbert, Nadia Idle and Keir Milburn bring a weird left perspective on violence and conflict, with music from Digital Mystikz and Stiff Little Fingers.
Novara FM: How We Normalised the Apocalypse
Can humanity turn back from the brink? Croatian philosopher Srećko Horvat on breaking the spell of end-times nihilism.
ACFM: Trip 22: Democracy
The gang find out what it means to be ruled by the people, with music from Crass and the Scratch Orchestra.
Novara FM: Putin’s Philosopher and the Global Far Right
Who is Aleksandr Dugin? Benjamin Teitelbaum introduces the spiritual leader of traditionalism, an idea that unites illiberal regimes around the world.
Novara FM: What Can Art Galleries Teach Us About Class Oppression?
The Tate's collection is a lesson in the making of class, explains Nathalie Olah.
ACFM: Microdose: Acid Camping
An audio essay on land, family, trespass and belonging with Matt Huxley.
Novara FM: Who Has the Right to Sex?
Amia Srinivasan and James Butler explore the philosophical grey zones between power, intimacy and violence.
Downstream: Why the Trojan Horse Affair Is a Very British Scandal
There was never an extremist plot to Islamify schools in Birmingham – so why do so many people still believe it?
Novara FM: Sex Sells
The left often defends sex workers, but how often do we defend sex work? Women from the Queer Whore Collective speak to Rivkah Brown.