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No World Order: 6: A Multipolar World
August 31, 2026 · 35 minTristan Redman is joined by the BBC’s International Editor, Jeremy Bowen, Professor Margaret MacMillan, an historian based at the University of Oxford, and essayist and novelist Pankaj Mishra, to examine the last decade of global upheaval…
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No World Order: 5: Bonfire of the Agreements
August 24, 2026 · 34 minTristan Redman is joined by Edward Luce, associate editor and columnist at the Financial Times in Washington DC, and Nicole Hemmer, political historian and associate professor at Vanderbilt University, to examine the years in which the…
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No World Order: 4: This Sucker Could Go Down
August 17, 2026 · 34 minTristan Redman is joined by Cindy Yu, a columnist at the Times and author of the Substack newsletter Chinese Whispers, and Pierre Haski, a longstanding foreign correspondent and commentator on France Inter radio, to examine a five-year…
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No World Order: 3. Russia goes its own way
August 10, 2026 · 34 minTristan Redman is joined by Gabriel Gatehouse, an investigative journalist and former international editor of BBC Newsnight, and Luke Harding, the Guardian's senior international correspondent, to trace the decade in which Russia moved…
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No World Order: 2. The View from Beijing
August 3, 2026 · 33 minTristan Redman is joined by Carrie Gracie, former BBC China editor and a reporter in China throughout the 1990s, and George Magnus, an economist and research associate at the China Centre, Oxford University, and former chief economist at…
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No World Order: 1. The Responsibility to Protect
July 27, 2026 · 36 minTristan Redman is joined by Lindsey Hilsum, international editor of Channel 4 News, and Allan Little, former BBC correspondent in Moscow and Africa, to look back at the decade after the Cold War in which the question of international…
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No World Order: Trailer
July 22, 2026 · 4 minAt the end of the Cold War, the international system underwritten by American power, liberal democracy and free markets looked to many like the high-water mark of a new world order. Fast forward to 2026, and that certainty looks far less…
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Israel and the Palestinians: 5. From WWII to the First Arab-Israeli war
February 9, 2026 · 29 minIn the fifth of ten programmes exploring the origins and tracing the history of the Middle East conflict, we reach the key years of 1945-49, when the United Nations voted for two states in Palestine, the State of Israel was established…