The Verso Podcast
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The Verso Podcast
Podcasts, readings, lectures and events: big ideas and radical discussion from authors and collaborators with Verso Books
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Overshoot: Navigating a world beyond 1.5°C (trailer)
Today we're posting a trailer for OVERSHOOT, an exciting new series forthcoming from our friends over at Planet B Productions. OVERSHOOT is hosted by...
Myths about Israel | Ilan Pappé
In our last episode of The Verso Podcast before the winter break, our host Eleanor Penny is joined by Israeli historian, and activist Ilan Pappé, to d...
AI, Automation, and Algorithms | Matteo Pasquinelli
This week we have a special episode for you as part of our inter-season programming - an interview with Matteo Pasquinelli. Of course, we’re still wor...
Overshoot | Andreas Malm & Wim Carton
On this week’s episode of The Verso Podcast we’re back to our typical format - our host, Eleanor Penny, is joined by Wim Carton and Andreas Malm to di...
Fascism, Marxism and Israel | Enzo Traverso
This week we have a special episode for you as part of our inter-season programming - an interview with Enzo Traverso. Of course, we’re still working...
Macrodose: Cyberboss | Craig Gent
This week we’ve got something a little different for you. Whilst we’re still technically between seasons - and working hard to bring you more roundtab...
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[LIVE] The Future of Global Politics w/ Jeremy Corbyn, Laleh Khalili & Daniel Denvir
Today we're publishing part two of our sell-out live event recorded at London's Union Chapel on July 26th.
For this discussion we teamed...
[LIVE] The Future of Global Capitalism w/ Macrodose Podcast
Today we're publishing part one of our sell-out live event recorded at London's Union Chapel on July 26th.
For our first show of the even...
Verso Book Club Podcast | Jules Gill-Peterson
In this second episode of the newly launched Verso Book Club Podcast, Jules Gill-Peterson sits down with our host, Eleanor Penny, to discuss her new b...
Abolition Is Now | Leah Cowan & Lola Olufemi
This week on The Verso Podcast we’re going to be thinking about the relationship between feminism and the carceral system. For a growing number of peo...
Building the Ark: The Life and Legacy of Mike Davis | Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Owen Hatherley
This week on The Verso Podcast Eleanor Penny is joined by Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Owen Hatherley to look at the unflinching work of writer, urban theo...
Verso Book Club Podcast | Brett Christophers
In this debut episode of the Verso Book Club Podcast, Brett Christophers sits down with our host, Eleanor Penny, to discuss his new book, The Price is...
Verso x The Dig LIVE Podcast with Jeremy Corbyn & Laleh Khalili
On Friday July 26th Jeremy Corbyn MP joins Verso Books and The Dig podcast for a live conversation at London’s Union Chapel.
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Value In Motion | Beverley Best & Aaron Benanav
This week on The Verso Podcast we’re taking a deep dive on the labour theory of value. From David Ricardo, to Adam Smith, to Karl Marx, it's a topic t...
Spectators and Witnesses | Legacy Russell & Fred Moten
This week on The Verso Podcast we’re taking a deep dive into the relationship between blackness and modern visual culture in the digital age. Our host...
Climate Colonialism | Ann Pettifor & Hamza Hamouchene
This week on The Verso Podcast we’ll be taking a close look at the political economy of climate breakdown. Along with our host, Eleanor Penny, Ann Pet...
With or Without Hope | Hannah Proctor & Ajay Singh Chaudhary
This week’s episode of The Verso Podcast centres on the gruelling work of making change happen in an often pitiless world - and the mental toll this c...
A Land Without Landlords | Nick Bano & Beth Stratford
This week on The Verso Podcast we’re putting landlordism under the microscope - how it turns peoples’ homes into poker chips, and the housing market i...
Unruly Bodies | Matthew Beaumont & Annie Olaloku-Teriba
On this episode of The Verso Podcast we’re going on a deep dive into the work of the psychiatrist, political theorist, and philosopher Frantz Fanon. O...
Dastardly Theology | Andrew Drummond & Eleanor Janega
Welcome back to the third season of The Verso Podcast! To kick off this run of shiny new episodes we’re taking a bit of a detour into the past, to hav...
2010-2020: The Decade of Discontent | Anton Jäger & Vincent Bevins
In this bonus episode of the Verso Podcast, authors Anton Jäger and Vincent Bevins reflect on the previous decade, the mass political movements that t...
The Kindness of Strangers | Lynne Segal & Loree Erickson
On the last episode The Verso Podcast before the new year, Eleanor Penny is joined by Lynne Segal and Loree Erickson to discuss the myth of total inde...
Love and Money, Sex and Death | McKenzie Wark & Toshio Meronek
This week on The Verso Podcast Eleanor Penny is joined by McKenzie Wark and Toshio Meronek to talk trans narratives, the politics of desire, and queer...
Breaking Britain | Danny Dorling & Chantelle Lewis
This week on The Verso Podcast we’re bringing you a deep dive on how Britain’s institutions, infrastructure, and social fabric are faring - and the pr...
Cryptocracy | Rachel O’Dwyer & Edward Ongweso
On this week’s episode of The Verso Podcast we’ll be taking a close look at the history of tokens across time, and the cultures that have grown up aro...
Arming Apartheid | Ghada Karmi & Antony Loewenstein
This week we were planning to bring you an episode about money in the digital age, but with everything that is currently unfolding in occupied Palesti...
C. L. R. James | Brett St Louis & Arun Kundnani
After a short end-of-summer break we’re happy to bring you season two of the newly relaunched Verso Podcast. This week Brett St Louis and Arun Kundnan...
Walter Benjamin: The Storyteller | Esther Leslie & Stuart Jeffries
In this bonus episode of The Verso Podcast, Esther Leslie and Stuart Jeffries discuss the life and legacy of Walter Benjamin. Join them for this fasci...
How Can the Left Solve the Climate Crisis? | Benjamin Kunkel & Lola Seaton
In this bonus episode of The Verso Podcast, Benjamin Kunkel and Lola Seaton delve into debates on how to decarbonise the world economy and build a bri...
On Cannibals and Capitalists | Nancy Fraser & Gargi Bhattacharyya
In the latest episode of The Verso Podcast, Nancy Fraser & Gargi Bhattacharyya join our host Eleanor Penny to discuss exploitation, expropriation, and...
Labours of Love | Helen Hester & Sarah Jaffe
On this week's episode of The Verso Podcast, Helen Hester and Sarah Jaffe join Eleanor Penny to discuss the care crisis, and how we might organise car...
Bodies Under Siege | Sian Norris & Edna Bonhomme
This week on The Verso Podcast, Sian Norris and Edna Bonhomme delve into the tactics and goals of fascist ideologies across the globe. They explore ho...
Walter Rodney: Guerilla Intellectual | Robin D.G. Kelley & Kevin Ochieng Okoth
In this fourth episode of the newly relaunched Verso Podcast, Kevin Ochieng Okoth and Robin D.G. Kelley join Eleanor Penny to discuss the radical life...
Inventing Sexuality | Ben Miller & Amardeep Singh Dhillon
In this fourth episode of the newly relaunched Verso Podcast, Ben Miller and Amardeep Singh Dhillon join Eleanor Penny for a deep dive on the historic...
Abolition Geography | Ruth Wilson Gilmore & Dalia Gebrial
In this third episode of the newly relaunched Verso Podcast, Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Dalia Gebrial join Eleanor Penny to discuss prison abolitionism,...
The Cult of Churchill | Tariq Ali & Priyamvada Gopal
On the second episode of our new season of the Verso Podcast, host Eleanor Penny is joined by writer and film maker Tariq Ali, and academic and author...
Against Nature | Raj Patel & Tina Ngata
On the first episode of our new season of the Verso Podcast, host Eleanor Penny is joined by author Raj Patel and human rights advocate Tina Ngata to...
The Cost of Living Crisis (and how to get out of it)
The response to the inflation surge by the UK government has been disastrous for working people. Pushing up interest rates, attempting to keep pay ris...
What comes after we abolish borders? Gracie Mae Bradley and Luke De Noronha
In this bumper edition of the Verso podcast we talk to authors Gracie Mae Bradley and Luke De Noronha about their new book Against Borders: The Case f...
Abolish the Family | Sophie Lewis speaks to Ben Smoke
Do family abolitionists want to get rid of your Gran? Do they hate love? Are they all killjoys looking to rip the roots of working class resistance ap...