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  Andrea Wulf | Around the World With Cook at 17, Dead a Traitor at 39, Forgotten for 200 Years. 15.07.2026 59min

  Andrea Wulf was born in India to German parents, grew up in Hamburg, and became a writer through pure serendipity... She has since become one of the finest narrative historians today: The Brother Gardeners, Founding Gardeners, Chasing Venus, then The Invention of Nature, her life of Alexander von Humboldt, which won fifteen international awards including the Costa Biography Award, the Royal Society Science Book Prize and the LA Times Book Prize, followed by Magnificent Rebels and now he...
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  Ed Cowan | Australian Test Cricket... “The output's objective. There's nothing subjective about a twenty-ball duck” 30.06.2026 1u 18min

  Ed Cowan is an Australian test cricketer, investor, podcaster and author. He’s one of those people whose name I jotted down 6 years ago when I started the show earmarked as a ‘dream guest’. He played in a golden era of Australian cricket and did so at a time when I was obsessed with the sport myself (I had delusions about being a test cricketer) and therefore like the music of your youth those cricketers you grew up with leave a certain impression. I've since been a long time listener of hi...
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  Tim Marshall | 'Despite It All... We Remain Prisoners Of Geography' 23.06.2026 57min

  Tim Marshall is back for a fourth time. We've now done a show for every book: Prisoners of Geography, The Power of Geography and The Future of Geography. Now the book that started a whole genre has turned 10 years, and Tim has gone back and rewritten the entire thing. So the question writes itself: how do you update a guide to how geography explains the world when the geography itself hasn't moved? Tim's answer is that we remain prisoners of it but the case is nuanced, he is quick to deny geo...
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  Oliver Bullough | The Awful Consequences Of Moneyland Are Compounding 10.06.2026 1u 4min

  Four years ago, almost to the day of recording, Oliver Bullough was a guest on this show for the first time to discuss his concept of 'Moneyland'. This borderless virtual country where the wealthy go to keep their wealth beyond the reach of any government, any tax office, any voter. Between then and now, I've maintained interest on this thread. Nicholas Shaxson discussed on the pod the cancerous plumbing of the offshore world in Treasure Islands. John Christensen showed how that plumbing quie...
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  Matt Friedman | Modern Slavery Is Getting Worse 26.05.2026 1u 1min

  This podcast has returned to modern slavery three times now. Lisa Kristine showed us its face through her photography. Bruce Ladebu described what it actually takes to pull children out. And Matthew Friedman, in Episode 76, gave us the architecture: thirty-five years working across Nepal, Bangladesh, Thailand, the UN, and eventually the Mekong Club. That first episode opened with the story of an 11-year-old Nepalese girl in a Mumbai brothel who ran across the room, wrapped herself aroun...
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  Joshua Bandoch | The Science of Persuasion - Why We Feel First Then Reason Later 29.04.2026 1u 35min

  Joshua Bandoch is the Head of Policy at the Illinois Policy Institute and the debut author of 'How to Get What You Want'. It's persuasion and communication all the way down. Josh's argues that almost everything most of us were taught about how to win an argument is wrong and now the neuroscience proves it. Aristotle, it turns out, had this figured out 2,400 years ago. Kant, the great rationalist of the Enlightenment, did not. We feel first and reason second, and any attempt to per...
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  Tony Abbott (Australia's 28th Prime Minister) On "Our Countries Remarkable History" 15.04.2026 40min

  Tony Abbott served as Australia's 28th Prime Minister from 2013 to 2015. He is a Rhodes Scholar and among the most polarising and consequential figures in modern Australian political history. Rather than writing a series of memoirs detailing the turbulent years before, during and after his leadership of Australia, he instead, wanted to re-introduce a pride for Australia's history which he is afraid 'the black armband view of history' has erased. Tony makes the case that Australian...
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  Eric Jorgenson | What We Can Learn From Elon 01.04.2026 1u 5min

  Link's To Eric Jorgenson ejorgenson.com (personal website)scribemedia.com (company)elonmuskbook.org (book)Eric Jorgenson, author of the Naval Almanac and the Book of Elon, and CEO of Scribe Media joins me to discuss what makes Elon Musk the most consequential entrepreneur alive. We dig into Elon's purpose-driven risk-taking, his philosophy of attacking bottlenecks, and why the people who make the biggest dents often pay the steepest personal price. Eric also reflects on his own journey ...
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  Will Marshall | CEO Of Planet - Creating A Queryable Earth 25.03.2026 57min

  Will Marshall is the CEO and Co-Founder of Planet. Planet own and operate a fleet of (200+) satellites which image daily, the entire world. Planet’s ultimate ambition is to achieve a queryable earth. The way you might ask Google what the population of Australia is, you’d be able to ask Planet any conceivable question you might have about the surface of the world. The way Google would refer to the Australian Bureau of Statistics for an answer to the countries population, Planet will refe...
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  Joe Aston | From Rear Window to Rampart 10.03.2026 1u 8min

  RampartThe Chairman's LoungeCurious Worldview Substack*Leave a review on Apple or Spotify* (nothing does more to help grow the show) Podcast Starter Packs Investigative JournalistsOffshore Finance/Kleptocracy & Money LaunderingGeopolitics/Economics/Economic DevelopmentExplorers & Adventurers--- Who is Joe Aston? For my Australian audience, you'll likely know him from his debut book The Chairman's Lounge, a forensic and damning account of Qantas. But for anyone international, put simpl...
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  Dennis Voznesenski | How Agriculture Explains Geopolitics 17.02.2026 57min

  War & Wheat - Dennis VoznesenskiMy Substack (Subscribe)*Leave a review on Apple or Spotify* (nothing does more to help grow the show) Podcast Starter Packs Offshore Finance/Kleptocracy & Money LaunderingGeopolitics/Economics/Economic DevelopmentExplorers & AdventurersInvestigative Journalists--- Dennis Voznesenski is an Australian analyst who has spent his career deep in the world of global agriculture. He is the author of 'War & Wheat'. In this conversation, Dennis explains h...
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  Jeff Farrell | Venezuela... Latin American Correspondent & 'Cocaine Dairies' 03.02.2026 1u 27min

  Jeff Farrell 'Cocaine Diaries' My Substack (Subscribe)Jeff Farrell Website *Leave a review on Apple or Spotify* (nothing does more to help grow the show) Podcast Starter Packs Offshore Finance/Kleptocracy & Money LaunderingGeopolitics/Economics/Economic DevelopmentExplorers & AdventurersInvestigative Journalists--- When Irish journalist Jeff Farrell arrived in Venezuela during the Chávez years as a Latin American correspondent, he couldn't have chanced a more serendipitous encoun...
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  Jeremy Dicker | 10 Geopolitical Predictions For 2026 27.01.2026 1u 36min

  International Intrigue - NewsletterMy Substack (Subscribe) *Leave a review on Apple or Spotify* (nothing does more to help grow the show) --- Previous guests on the podcast similar to this! Robert Kaplan - A World In CrisisPodcast Starter Packs Offshore Finance/Kleptocracy & Money LaunderingGeopolitics/Economics/Economic DevelopmentExplorers & AdventurersInvestigative Journalists--- Jeremy Dicker is a co-founder of International Intrigue, a daily geopolitics newsletter delivered to ...
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  Nicolas Niarchos | Cobalt, China & The Congo... The Elements Of Power 20.01.2026 1u 17min

  The Elements of Power - Nicolas NiarchosMy Substack (Subscribe) *Leave a review on Apple or Spotify* (nothing does more to help grow the show) --- Previous guests on the podcast similar to this! Nicolas Niarchos First Appearance On The PodTim Butcher - Blood River (CLASSIC EP)Adam Hochschild - King Leopold's GhostJon Lee Anderson - New Yorker Staff Writer, A Life Of AdventurePodcast Starter Packs Offshore Finance/Kleptocracy & Money LaunderingGeopolitics/Economics/Economic DevelopmentEx...
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  Tim Cope | In The Shadow Of Genghis Khan - 10,000km & 3 Years On Horseback Across The Mongol Empire's Eurasian Steppe 23.12.2025 2u 59min

  On The Trail Of Genghis Khan - Tim Cope (Book) My Substack (Subscribe) *Leave a review on Apple or Spotify* (nothing does more to help grow the show) --- Previous guests on the podcast similar to this! Jack Weatherford - Genghis Khan & The Making Of The Modern World Robyn Davidson - Australian Living Legend. Documenter Of Nomads. Jon Lee Anderson - New Yorker Staff Writer, A Life Of Adventure. --- Tim Cope underwent a three year journey traversing the entire Eurasian steppe, starting in K...
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  Eric Beecher| The Rogues Gallery Of Media Moguls & The Men Who Killed The News 02.12.2025 52min

  The Men Who Killed The News (Book) My Substack (Subscribe) * Consider leaving a review on Apple or Spotify * (nothing does more to help grow the show) --- Eric Beecher is a veteran journalist, editor and entrepreneur whose experienced first hand the dramatic evolution of the previous 40 years of media. From broadsheet’s to TV to the internet to facebook, podcasts, now AI. Eric has been across all these, both an employee and employer as the business models were repeatedly shaken and reca...
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  Gareth Gore | Political Fallout & 'Smear Campaign' From Opus Dei 18.11.2025 50min

  Gareth Gore | Unveiling The Conspiracy Of Opus Dei (his first appearance) Gareth Gore - Opus (Amazon) Subscribe To The Curious Worldview Substack --- This is Gareth’s second appearance on the podcast. It is the political fallout from everything covered in our first episode where he told the story for how he serendipitously uncovered Opus Dei’s hidden power and financial manipulation while investigating the ruins of the Spanish bank, Banco Popular. It began as a routine story but...
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  Gideon Haigh | The Love Of Cricket, Archives & Eclectic Curiosities - Doyen Of Cricket History & Correspondence 07.11.2025 1u 45min

  A probe into Gideon Haigh's worldview, someone I've anticipated interviewing ever since this podcast began. Some highlights from the podcast. On cricket: “Cricket marches backwards into the future — always haunted by its past.”On Warne: “He had perfect superficiality and the gift of putting everyone at ease.”On journalism: “Legacy media has become mindlessly negative. If they can’t own it, they destroy it.”On new media: “It’s amazingly empowering to write something and press publish — n...
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  Robyn Davidson | Among Australia's Most Mythologised Lives... 'Memoir Is The Slipperiest Genre' - Unfinished Woman, Tracks & A Life Of Nomadism 22.10.2025 2u 15min

  I've anticipated this interview for 6 years. Robyn Davidson has lived one of the most mythologised lives in Australian memory. She famously and unintentionally burst onto the scene with Tracks in 1988, which was a 2,700km camel trek across the Simpson desert. She'd never intended to write a book or document anything of it's kind from the journey, but was desperate for some money to gather supplies for the impending trip. She figured $1000 would do, and serendipitously met the National ...
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  Phil Elwood | Confessions of a Public Relations Operative 15.10.2025 1u 39min

  “I deserved whatever the opposite of a Pulitzer is.” Phil Elwood is the author of All the Worst Humans, a confessional memoir from the dubious world of public relations. As a PR operative. He helped Qatar win the 2022 World Cup. He spun the release of the Lockerbie bomber into a “positive headline.” Had the Gaddafi family, the Assad regime and plenty more among his clients. Phil speaks with humility and incredible clarity about what he learned from that world. The moral grey zones, the ...