Best James McEwan Podcasts (2025)

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Watch Series - Making Tax Digital #9: What Xero is doing! (Live from Brewdog with James Goulsbra & Johann Goree)) 1:07:04

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Welcome to the MTD Watch Series – the podcast series dedicated to everything Making Tax Digital.Brought to you by the Ask the Accountant Podcast Network! Hosted by Aaron Patrick, Amy Hancock, and Suzannah Whelan, this weekly show dives deep into the most important updates, challenges, and opportunities surrounding MTD for ITSA and beyond. From comp…

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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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Patricia Lockwood's auto-fiction-ish Will There Ever Be Another You + The Buffalo Hunter Hunter + The Original 54:35

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This week’s episode explores three new books. First up, Patricia Lockwood’s Will There Ever Be Another You, a third-person autofiction-ish tale that includes a family trip to Scotland, grief and fairies. Then we head to the American frontier for blood-soaked vengeance and vampires in Stephen Graham Jones’ The Buffalo Hunter Hunter. Finally, Nell St…

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ASK THE ACCOUNTANT #151 1:06:05

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Join Aaron and Johann, experienced accountants and entrepreneurs, weekly on Ask the Accountant, where they discuss various topics revolving around the accounting industry and give business advice and updates.Every Monday from 8:30 am.Want to find out more:https://linktr.ee/asktheaccountant#ACCOUNTANT #PODCAST #BUSINESS✨ Want to turn long-form conte…

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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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Graham Norton 28:35

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BAFTA Award-winning broadcaster and novelist Graham Norton discusses Frankie, his fifth novel, which centres on the life of an apparently unremarkable Irish woman in her eighties as she recounts her story to a young carer. Graham Norton shares the three key literary influences that helped shape the novel: Elizabeth Bowen’s The Last September (1929)…

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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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We Rate TCSG's Office - Ask the Accountant: Cool Locations! 24:39

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On this episode of 'Ask the Accountant - Cool Locations,' we head over to TCS Guernsey!Join us as we get an office tour and provide our rating. From their workspace to their story, vision, and life on the island - you won’t want to miss this series!Join Aaron and Johann, experienced accountants and entrepreneurs weekly on Ask the Accountant, where …

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Watch Series - Making Tax Digital #8: What QuickBooks is doing! 1:05:18

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Welcome to the MTD Watch Series – the podcast series dedicated to everything Making Tax Digital.Brought to you by the Ask the Accountant Podcast Network!Hosted by Aaron Patrick, Amy Hancock, and Suzannah Whelan, this weekly show dives deep into the most important updates, challenges, and opportunities surrounding MTD for ITSA and beyond.From compli…

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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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Ian McEwan's What We Can Know + new work from Olga Tokarczuk and Miranda Darling 54:36

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We get stuck into some new fiction, starting with Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know, a meditation on a future shaped by climate disaster and memory. We’re joined by Australian authors Madeleine Gray and Gretchen Shirm to take a look at Miranda Darling’s Fireweather, a poetic story of breakdown and resistance, and Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk’s Hou…

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ASK THE ACCOUNTANT #150 - With Special Guest Caroline Hobden! 1:06:19

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Join Aaron and Johann, experienced accountants and entrepreneurs, weekly on Ask the Accountant, where they discuss various topics revolving around the accounting industry and give business advice and updates.Every Monday from 8:30 am.Want to find out more:https://linktr.ee/asktheaccountant#ACCOUNTANT #PODCAST #BUSINESS✨ Want to turn long-form conte…

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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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Meet TCS Guernsey - Ask the Accountant: Cool Locations! 25:14

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On this episode of 'Ask the Accountant - Cool Locations,' we head over to TCS Guernsey!Join us as we step inside their office, meet the team, and explore what makes TCSG so unique. From their workspace to their story, vision, and life on the island—you won’t want to miss it!Join Aaron and Johann, experienced accountants and entrepreneurs, weekly on…

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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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Ian McEwan 33:26

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Booker prize winning author, Ian McEwan, speaks to Take Four Books, about his new novel, What We Can Know, and explores its connections to three other literary works. What We Can Know is set almost a hundred years in the future in a Britain much of which is now underwater, and it follows the character of Tom Metcalfe, a scholar of the University of…

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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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Watch Series - Making Tax Digital #7:What FreeAgent is doing! (With Stu McEwan) 1:01:36

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Welcome to the MTD Watch Series – the podcast series dedicated to everything Making Tax Digital.Brought to you by the Ask the Accountant Podcast Network!Hosted by Aaron Patrick, Amy Hancock, and Suzannah Whelan, this weekly show dives deep into the most important updates, challenges, and opportunities surrounding MTD for ITSA and beyond.From compli…

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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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Still Turning Heads at 250: Jane Austen’s Enduring Charm 54:30

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In the year of Jane Austen’s 250th birthday, this lively and thought-provoking discussion explores her life, legacy, and literary brilliance — her novels are charming, sure, but also radical, political, witty, and entertaining. Presented in partnership with the State Library of NSW, this event brings together Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh with Sc…

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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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ASK THE ACCOUNTANT #149 1:03:37

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Join Aaron and Johann, experienced accountants and entrepreneurs, weekly on Ask the Accountant, where they discuss various topics revolving around the accounting industry and give business advice and updates.Every Monday from 8:30 am.Want to find out more:https://linktr.ee/asktheaccountant#ACCOUNTANT #PODCAST #BUSINESS✨ Want to turn long-form conte…

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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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The Specialist | The Multi-Million Dollar Banana, with David Galperin 13:17

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This is an episode of The Specialist, produced by Intelligence Squared in partnership with Sotheby's. In The Specialist, explore the significance and journey of an extraordinary work through the eyes of those that know it best. On today’s episode, Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian - an artwork that provoked scandal, sparked imagination, and upended the …

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Could AI Help Save Lives? With Dr Charlotte Blease 39:18

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How can AI improve our healthcare industry? In this episode, Dr Emma Yhnell speaks to health informaticist and author Dr Charlotte Blease about the role AI could play in the future of medicine, from making it more accessible to helping lighten the hours of a burnt-out workforce. Healthcare systems around the world are under mounting pressure. Healt…

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Watch Series - Making Tax Digital #6: What Sage is doing! (With Sage Savvy Sam Mitcham) 1:02:08

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Welcome to the MTD Watch Series – the podcast series dedicated to everything Making Tax Digital.Brought to you by the Ask the Accountant Podcast Network!Hosted by Aaron Patrick, Amy Hancock, and Suzannah Whelan, this weekly show dives deep into the most important updates, challenges, and opportunities surrounding MTD for ITSA and beyond.From compli…

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Superstar children's author Andy Griffiths reviews! Plus, Omar Musa's Fierceland and Geoff Dyer's Homework 54:06

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Australian poet, artist, hip hop musician and author, Omar Musa, tells a story of Australia and Borneo, forests and fathers, in his new novel Fierceland. An American saga of love, war, and complicated families in Patrick Ryan’s Buckeye, and experimental British author Geoff Dyer returns with Homework, a look back on his childhood and coming of age …

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ASK THE ACCOUNTANT #148 1:00:24

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Join Aaron and Johann, experienced accountants and entrepreneurs, weekly on Ask the Accountant, where they discuss various topics revolving around the accounting industry and give business advice and updates.Every Monday from 8:30 am.Want to find out more:https://linktr.ee/asktheaccountant#ACCOUNTANT #PODCAST #BUSINESS✨ Want to turn long-form conte…

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Hotels with History | Claridge's, London 22:19

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This is an episode of Hotels with History, produced by Intelligence Squared on behalf of Perowne International⁠. In today’s episode, the rise of one of the most exclusive districts of London, the hotel that became the Annex to Buckingham Palace, and how it has maintained its status as one of the world’s most iconic hotels ever since. ⁠Follow on Ins…

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The science of dreams: why do we dream, and can we learn to control them? With Dr Michelle Carr 35:23

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Why do we dream? Why do dreams go bad? And can we harness the science of dreams and nightmares to improve our health? Dr Michelle Carr is the Director of the Dream Engineering Laboratory at the University of Montreal and a researcher in the cutting edge field of dream engineering. Her new book, Into the Dream Lab, is a guide to the science of dream…

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Melissa Lucashenko 28:50

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Goorie author Melissa Lucashenko joins Take Four Books from the Edinburgh International Book Festival to discuss her novel, Edenglassie. The three books that inspired the creation of Edenglassie are: Tom Petrie’s Reminiscences of Early Queensland (1904), The Bone People by Keri Hulme (1985), and The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry (2008). The s…

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What will become of the CIA under President Trump? With Tim Wiener 48:23

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Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Tim Weiner has been chronicling the history of the CIA for more than two decades. His new book, The Mission charts the agency’s successes and failings, from 9-11 to the present day. In this episode, he sat down with Carl Miller to talk about the agency’s notorious post 9-11 torture programmes, its key role in suppo…