The Weekend Intelligence from The Economist
The Weekend Intelligence from The Economist is a weekly podcast that delves into one compelling story each Saturday. Hosted by The Economist's correspondents, it offers in-depth reporting on people, places, and ideas that shape our world. The show steps back from the daily news to provide a vivid narrative. Subscribers to The Economist get full access to all episodes.
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PSA: Back soon
Instead of your usual episode of The Weekend Intelligence, we are bringing you a new narrative series from The Economist.In Tocqueville Road Trip our US Editor John Prideaux retraces the steps of the French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville, as America turns 250. He wrote probably the best book on American politics by a foreigner, and he did it in 1831, when the country was barely 50 years old. How
PSA: Taking a short break
Instead of your usual episode of The Weekend Intelligence, we are bringing you season 3 of Boss Class. The series asks, how should employees and managers adapt to the world of AI? You'll find it wherever you listen to The Intelligence.The Weekend Intelligence team is on a short hiatus. We're using the time to report, gather and polish more stories for you. We'll be back Saturday 21st February.
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Mise en masse
Chef Gary Thomas has a lot on his plate. That’s because he’s in the business of feeding thousands of people a day on a ship in the middle of the ocean. Not just any ship – the Star of the Seas, the largest cruise ship in the world. The Weekend Intelligence’s senior producer Barclay Bram braved a trip to the Bahamas to try to figure out the secret behind one of the most impressive food operati
The Cotton Patch Gospel
Seventy years ago, a small Christian community in rural Georgia became an unlikely battleground in America’s fight over civil rights. Koinonia was founded on a radical idea: that black and white families should live, work and worship together as equals. For the people of nearby Americus, that belief was heresy. What followed was years of boycotts, gunfire, cross burnings and isolation.Lenny Jordan
The Weekend Intelligence: Welcome
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The Weekend Intelligence: The Memory Keepers
In Japan, the last witnesses to the horror of nuclear destruction are approaching the end of their lives. And as they die out, nuclear weapons no longer seem to induce the same degree of revulsion they once did. The arms control architecture built up during the Cold War is crumbling and existing nuclear powers are modernising their arsenals. More states are considering acquiring nuclear weapons. N
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