I've Been Thinking with Peter Frankopan Podcast
1) EP23: Parag Khanna on migration, future movements and predicting the reasons why
Migration is a topic at the top of many different agendas but why are people moving and what can we learn from history to map out possible futures? Peter discusses this and more with Parag Khanna, fou...Show More
2) EP22: The environmental footprint of food choices with Sarah Briddle
When we choose what we eat it can have a huge impact on our environmental footprint. Author Sarah Briddle has written one of the books of the year, Food and Climate Change Without the Hot Air: Chan...Show More
3) EP21: Refugees, remittance and the potential for ideological change with Pennsylvania State University's Professor Joseph Wright
Refugees and migrants take their path for many different reasons one of which is economic. How does the money they send back to their homes - remittance - change their families, communities and even g...Show More
4) EP20: James Bond - the real world of MI6, espionage and the fact in the fiction
The 25th Bond film is in cinemas now and in this episode of I've Been Thinking with Peter Frankopan he digs into the real life world of espionage, counter terrorism and the life of Bond creator Ian Fl...Show More
EP20: James Bond - the real world of MI6, espionage and the fact in the fiction
35:02 | Oct 14th, 2021
5) EP19: The economics of kidnapping with Professor Anja Shortland
You've taken a hostage, but what are they worth? 97.5% of all hostages who are taken for ransom are returned but pricing is as important a factor as the negotiating. In this episode of I've Been T...Show More
6) EP18: Alexei Navalny - A thorn in Putin's side, but is he Russia's great hope?
He's been the face of opposition politic in Russia for sometime but who is Alexei Navalny? What are his goals? What tools does he wield to achieve them? How do the Kremlin head him off? In order t...Show More
EP18: Alexei Navalny - A thorn in Putin's side, but is he Russia's great hope?
46:54 | Oct 3rd, 2021
7) EP17: Supply Chains - Success, failings and a map for the future with Ross Kennedy
An extra episode of I've Been Thinking with Peter Frankopan in your podcast feed this week. In the media we see daily stories of projected food shortages, lack of workers and of course right now ac...Show More
EP17: Supply Chains - Success, failings and a map for the future with Ross Kennedy
34:13 | Sep 29th, 2021
8) EP16: China Unbound: A New World Disorder with journalist and author Joanna Chiu
China Unbound: A New World Disorder, journalist Joanna Chiu takes her experience of over a decade examining China's expansion and puts pen to paper to give the reader a view of it's economic power, it...Show More
EP16: China Unbound: A New World Disorder with journalist and author Joanna Chiu
43:15 | Sep 26th, 2021
9) EP15: Private education with author of Sad Little Men, Richard Beard
What is private education? Who goes in and who comes out? Like Peter, Richard Beard experienced such an education and writes about its impact and how it has shaped modern government in his latest ...Show More
10) EP14: An Atlantic Slave War and competition within Africa with Professor Vincent Brown of Harvard
On this episode of I've Been Thinking Peter is in conversation with Vincent Brown, Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard and author of the exce...Show More