We discuss cartel spies, confirmation bias, and Japan's "really weird view" of female sexuality with our global contributors

Spies, Lies and Wandering Eyes - Duncan Tucker, Annemarie Luck, Abraham T. Zere - Spring 2017

The Summer 2017 issue looks at how the Russian Revolution affects us today. Also including reports on journalism in Yemen, comedy in Spain and protest in Indonesia. 
On this podcast we talk about Soviet hangovers in North Korea and Uzbekistan, and the censoring of scientists with inconvenient data.
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Shadows, Spectres and Socialism - Margaret Atwood, BG Muhn, Hamid Ismailov, Susan Reed - Summer 2017

Index on Censorship magazine was founded in 1972, with Michael Scammell as the first editor. On this podcast, he reflects on those first few issues and the conditions for free speech at the time.

Michael Scammell: The beginning of Index on Censorship

In the autumn 2017 issue of Index on Censorship, our special report looks at why the rebirth of radio is delivering more news and how that's very good for freedom of expression.

Featuring interviews from Ida Jooste, Peter Kettler and Joe Hynek on radio stations in the Central African Republic, Rwanda and the USA respectively, and Ghassan Ferghiani, a bookseller operating between the UK and Libya.

Radio: Old medium new again -- Autumn 2017 Index on Censorship magazine

The winter 2017 issue looks at how protest has changed since 1968, the year the world took to the streets. We interview a series of people who have different takes on protest - Pavel Theiner, an observer of the Prague Spring, Sujatro Ghosh, an Indian artist protesting unfair treatment of women and Steven Borowiec, a journalist on the South Korea leader. We also speak to Floyd Abrams, the lawyer from the Pentagon Papers case about threats to the First Amendment.

Protest: Prague Spring to today - Winter 2017 Index on Censorship magazine podcast

The spring 2018 issue of Index on Censorship magazine takes a special look at the abuse of history and how governments and powers alike are manipulating history across the globe. In this podcast, we speak with historian Rana Mitter about China's historical narrative, broadcaster and historian Bettany Hughes about how memory affects history and giving Cleopatra her dues, ahead of her new BBC programme Bacchus Uncovered: Ancient God of Ecstasy, as well Omar Mohammed aka Mosul Eye about the dangers of recording history under Isis.

The Abuse of History - Bettany Hughes, Rana Mitter, Mosul Eye - Spring 2018

Index on Censorship magazine was at Hay Festival in Wales at the end of May. We spoke to three leading authors - David Olusoga, Juan Gabriel Vásquez and Javier Cercas - about taboos in their own countries, the issues that people are not talking enough about and the stories that might be currently manipulated.

Photo credit: Hay Festival/Joseph Albert Hainey

Hay author special - David Olusoga, Juan Gabriel Vásquez and Javier Cercas

The summer 2018 Index on Censorship magazine takes you on holiday, just a different kind of holiday. In this podcast, we speak with co-founder of Rough Guides travel guidebooks Mark Ellingham about the questions that arise when publishing a travel guide, journalist Stephen Woodman talks about one of Mexico's top destinations dangers and Index correspondent Silvia Nortes discusses how a drag queen's performance was investigated by Canary Islands prosecutors for a possible religious offence.

Trouble in Paradise - Mark Ellingham, Stephen Woodman, Silvia Nortes - Summer 2018 podcast

Are facts under attack? We explore this question in the Autumn issue of Index on Censorship magazine. In the podcast, we speak to Academy of Ideas founder and director Claire Fox about why we need to leave our echo chambers; Tanzanian blogger Elsie Eyakuze discusses a current blogging tax in her country pricing writers offline; and journalist Dan Nolan talks of the dangers that currently face scientists in Hungary.

The Age of Unreason - Claire Fox, Elsie Eyakuze and Dan Nolan - Autumn 2018 podcast

On this quarterly podcast, Index on Censorship magazine's global contributors explain and discuss challenges to freedom of expression around the world.
For more than 40 years, Index on Censorship magazine has published the world’s leading writers, journalists and thinkers, as well as the most censored voices.

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