Best Dan Benedict Podcasts (2025)

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Can the West Hold Together? Lessons from WWII with Tim Bouverie and Michael Gove (Part Two) 38:00

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‘There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them.’ – Winston Churchill In a world where geopolitical alliances are fraying and tensions are rising, what can the fragile coalition that defeated Hitler teach us about the challenges facing the West today? In September 2025 historian Tim Bouverie came to the I…

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Can the West Hold Together? Lessons from WWII with Tim Bouverie and Michael Gove (Part One) 31:33

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‘There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them.’ – Winston Churchill In a world where geopolitical alliances are fraying and tensions are rising, what can the fragile coalition that defeated Hitler teach us about the challenges facing the West today? In September 2025 historian Tim Bouverie came to the I…

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How Will the US Fight China? With Franz-Stefan Gady 1:08:23

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The threat of war between the US and China seems to be a constant background hum in the news cycle. Commentators often tackle when and why this conflict might emerge and escalate. But how would a war between the two great powers actually play out? Who would dominate across land, sea, air, space and cyberspace? In today’s episode, host Adam McCauley…

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The Specialist | The Most Valuable Car in the World, with Gord Duff And Marcus Breitschwerdt 16:48

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This is an episode of The Specialist, your weekly dose of wonder. In The Specialist, explore the significance and journey of an extraordinary work through the eyes of those that know it best. On this episode, the extraordinary story of the 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupé — a car so rare and revered that few believed it would ever leave t…

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What Can Criminal Psychology Teach Us About Climate Change? With Julia Shaw 43:57

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Can criminal psychology offer us a new way to think about and combat climate change? In this episode, criminal psychologist Julia Shaw sits down with physicist and broadcaster Helen Czerski to offer a compelling new framework to understand environmental crime. While big structural issues often cloud political progress on climate action, Shaw takes …

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Anthony Scaramucci on Trump and the Threat to American Democracy (Part Two) 31:42

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Anthony Scaramucci on Trump and the Threat to American Democracy (Part One) 35:46

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Anthony Scaramucci, former White House Communications Director turned outspoken Trump critic, comes to Intelligence Squared in September for a straight-talking conversation on the fallout from Trump’s second presidency. From his brief but explosive tenure inside the Trump White House in 2017 to his career on Wall Street and success as co-host of ‘T…

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The Thick of It: 20 Years On, with Armando Iannucci, Peter Capaldi, Chris Addison and Rebecca Front (Part Two) 38:25

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Malcolm Tucker. Pet ASBOs. A law requiring everyone in Britain to carry around a plastic bag. It’s been twenty years since Armando Iannucci‘s The Thick of It first brought the chaos and drama of the fictitious ‘Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship’ into our lives. First aired on the BBC in 2005, the show satirised the Blair government’s spi…

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The Thick of It: 20 Years On, with Armando Iannucci, Peter Capaldi, Chris Addison and Rebecca Front (Part One) 37:26

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Malcolm Tucker. Pet ASBOs. A law requiring everyone in Britain to carry around a plastic bag. It’s been twenty years since Armando Iannucci‘s The Thick of It first brought the chaos and drama of the fictitious ‘Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship’ into our lives. First aired on the BBC in 2005, the show satirised the Blair government’s spi…

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Why B2B brands fail without trust (and how to build one that lasts) with Jigsaw’s Head of Marketing, Jason Miller 34:38

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In this episode of B2B Marketing: The Provocative Truth, Benedict talks with Jigsaw's Head of Marketing, Jason Miller about the renewed importance of brand in B2B marketing. Once seen as “fluffy” or reserved for consumer giants, brand is now the foundation for differentiation, trust and long-term growth. Jason argues that lead gen and performance m…

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Is AI About to Automate War? With Anthony King 1:05:00

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Are supercomputers and killer robots going to take over? In this episode, Adam McCauley speaks to professor and author Anthony King in order to debunk the science- fiction tinged narrative of AI’s military potential and to, instead, explore the actual applications of AI in the armed forces over the last decade. Professor Anthony King was appointed …

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Sir Tim Berners-Lee on the Internet, AI and the Future of Humanity (Part Two) 36:05

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Watch the full video of this event for free here: https://mailchi.mp/intelligencesquared/lw6gixq1t9 The transcript of this event is available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GvYGaOE-fnDQdFvrTLQjUGcrE6Ra0acN/view?usp=drive_link --- The most influential inventor of the modern world, Sir Tim Berners-Lee is a different kind of visionary. Born in…

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Sir Tim Berners-Lee on the Internet, AI and the Future of Humanity (Part One) 39:19

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Watch the full video of this event for free here: https://mailchi.mp/intelligencesquared/lw6gixq1t9 The transcript of this event is available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GvYGaOE-fnDQdFvrTLQjUGcrE6Ra0acN/view?usp=drive_link --- The most influential inventor of the modern world, Sir Tim Berners-Lee is a different kind of visionary. Born in…

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Hotels with History | Raffles Hotel, Singapore, with Richard E. Grant and Jules Perowne 26:05

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This is an episode of Hotels with History, produced by Intelligence Squared on behalf of ⁠Perowne International⁠⁠. On todays episode, Richard journeys to Singapore to explore the legendary Raffles Hotel. Discover how four visionary Armenian brothers turned a 10-room beach bungalow into a magnificent Neo-Renaissance palace, where literary giants fou…

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What Did Twenty Years of Western Intervention in Afghanistan Achieve? With Jon Lee Anderson 37:06

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For more than 40 years, world-renowned foreign correspondent Jon Lee Anderson has been reporting on wars, crises and revolutions, from Latin America to the Middle East and Africa. Throughout his career he has made countless visits to Afghanistan, bearing witness to the Soviet invasion and the subsequent US interventions from 9/11 to the present day…

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Who are the Trailblazing Women Hidden From Our History? With Women's Prize Founder Kate Mosse 53:47

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Did you know that Mary Shelley was a teenager when she started writing Frankenstein in 1814? Or that England’s most prolific goal scorer - man or woman - was superstar striker Lily Parr, who scored a staggering 997 goals between 1919 and 1951? When Kate Mosse launched the #WomenInHistory campaign, asking people to highlight women whose achievements…

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Is the Data on Climate Change More Optimistic than We Thought? With Hannah Ritchie 42:29

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What if the real story of climate change is far more hopeful than we’ve been led to believe? With so much doomsday reporting and general misinformation on climate change, it can be hard to know what’s true - and what actually matters. In this episode, bestselling author and data scientist Hannah Ritchie joins us to examine the data on the biggest q…

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Ian McEwan on Speculative Fiction, Lost Poems and What We Can Know 42:00

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Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of nineteen novels and two short story collections. His novels include Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach, and he is the recipient of many awards including the Booker Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award. In this episode, McEwan sits dow…

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Sotheby’s Talks | Custodians of Taste: Pauline Karpidas and the Women who Shape the Art World 53:28

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On today’s episode, an episode from our friends at Sotheby's exploring the remarkable collecting journey of Pauline Karpidas, one of the most influential art patrons of the past fifty years. Ahead of Sotheby’s landmark sale of her extraordinary Surrealist collection this September, collector Tiquio Acentio, curator Jasper Sharp, and Sotheby’s World…

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Arundhati Roy on Storytelling, Memory and The Human Condition (Part Two) 34:24

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‘It is vanishingly rare for a writer to both confront the ugliness of humanity and still search for its beauty. Roy is that rare writer.’ – Naomi Klein Arundhati Roy is one of today’s most esteemed public intellectuals. The author of novels including the Booker Prize-winning The God of Small Things, Roy is equally respected as a political essayist.…

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Arundhati Roy on Storytelling, Memory and The Human Condition (Part One) 33:14

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‘It is vanishingly rare for a writer to both confront the ugliness of humanity and still search for its beauty. Roy is that rare writer.’ – Naomi Klein Arundhati Roy is one of today’s most esteemed public intellectuals. The author of novels including the Booker Prize-winning The God of Small Things, Roy is equally respected as a political essayist.…

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Nick Clegg on Meta, AI and the Battle for Big Tech (Part Two) 36:26

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Nick Clegg has had a seat at the heart of power for nearly two decades. As leader of the Liberal Democrats he served as deputy Prime Minister from 2010 to 2015 in the coalition government with David Cameron. After losing his parliamentary seat in 2017 he became Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s right-hand man as President of Global Affairs at Meta…

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Nick Clegg on Meta, AI and the Battle for Big Tech (Part One) 36:54

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Nick Clegg has had a seat at the heart of power for nearly two decades. As leader of the Liberal Democrats he served as deputy Prime Minister from 2010 to 2015 in the coalition government with David Cameron. After losing his parliamentary seat in 2017 he became Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s right-hand man as President of Global Affairs at Meta…

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Client Centricity in B2B: Moving beyond data and understanding signals with Nicole German, Global CMO HSBC, CIB 30:33

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In this episode of B2B Marketing: The Provocative Truth, Benedict explores a striking paradox with Nicole German, Global Chief Marketing Officer for Corporate and Institutional Banking at HSBC. His challenge is that despite having unprecedented amounts of customer data, many B2B organisations seem further away from truly understanding their clients…

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The Age of the Strongman: Understanding Netanyahu, with Anshel Pfeffer (Part Two) 42:33

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In November 2022, Benjamin Netanyahu returned to power in Israel after winning his sixth election. Propped up by a bloc of far-right and ultra-religious parties, Netanyahu’s government is seen by many as the most extreme in Israeli history. But he is also a remarkably successful politician: he first won power in 1996 and is Israel’s longest-serving…

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The Age of the Strongman: Understanding Netanyahu, with Anshel Pfeffer (Part One) 35:57

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In November 2022, Benjamin Netanyahu returned to power in Israel after winning his sixth election. Propped up by a bloc of far-right and ultra-religious parties, Netanyahu’s government is seen by many as the most extreme in Israeli history. But he is also a remarkably successful politician: he first won power in 1996 and is Israel’s longest-serving…

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Can the West Hold Together? Lessons from WWII with Tim Bouverie and Michael Gove (Part Two) 38:00

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Can the West Hold Together? Lessons from WWII with Tim Bouverie and Michael Gove (Part One) 31:33

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How Will the US Fight China? With Franz-Stefan Gady 1:08:23

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The Specialist | The Most Valuable Car in the World, with Gord Duff And Marcus Breitschwerdt 16:48

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What Can Criminal Psychology Teach Us About Climate Change? With Julia Shaw 43:57

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Anthony Scaramucci on Trump and the Threat to American Democracy (Part Two) 31:42

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Anthony Scaramucci on Trump and the Threat to American Democracy (Part One) 35:46

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The Thick of It: 20 Years On, with Armando Iannucci, Peter Capaldi, Chris Addison and Rebecca Front (Part Two) 38:25

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The Thick of It: 20 Years On, with Armando Iannucci, Peter Capaldi, Chris Addison and Rebecca Front (Part One) 37:26

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Why B2B brands fail without trust (and how to build one that lasts) with Jigsaw’s Head of Marketing, Jason Miller 34:38

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Is AI About to Automate War? With Anthony King 1:05:00

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Sir Tim Berners-Lee on the Internet, AI and the Future of Humanity (Part Two) 36:05

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Sir Tim Berners-Lee on the Internet, AI and the Future of Humanity (Part One) 39:19

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Hotels with History | Raffles Hotel, Singapore, with Richard E. Grant and Jules Perowne 26:05

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What Did Twenty Years of Western Intervention in Afghanistan Achieve? With Jon Lee Anderson 37:06

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Who are the Trailblazing Women Hidden From Our History? With Women's Prize Founder Kate Mosse 53:47

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Is the Data on Climate Change More Optimistic than We Thought? With Hannah Ritchie 42:29

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Ian McEwan on Speculative Fiction, Lost Poems and What We Can Know 42:00

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Sotheby’s Talks | Custodians of Taste: Pauline Karpidas and the Women who Shape the Art World 53:28

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Arundhati Roy on Storytelling, Memory and The Human Condition (Part Two) 34:24

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Arundhati Roy on Storytelling, Memory and The Human Condition (Part One) 33:14

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Nick Clegg on Meta, AI and the Battle for Big Tech (Part Two) 36:26

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Nick Clegg on Meta, AI and the Battle for Big Tech (Part One) 36:54

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Client Centricity in B2B: Moving beyond data and understanding signals with Nicole German, Global CMO HSBC, CIB 30:33

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The Age of the Strongman: Understanding Netanyahu, with Anshel Pfeffer (Part Two) 42:33

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The Age of the Strongman: Understanding Netanyahu, with Anshel Pfeffer (Part One) 35:57