Economist Podcasts

The Hacking Team gets hacked, exposing alleged illegal activities, and NASA's New Horizons probe flickers back to life as it approaches the planetoid Pluto

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Embryos frozen during relationships lead to legal troubles down the road, and SpaceX loses a cargo carrier in the risky business ofrocketry

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This week: The French turn their backs on baguettes, South Koreans tighten their apron strings and a forgotten pope is resurrected

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The Economist's editor-in-chief Zanny Minton-Beddoes, Lord Falconer, Baroness Finlay and professor Theo Boer debate the arguments for and against assisted dying with Anne McElvoy

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How mobile phone data can help aid workers duringhumanitarian crises and start-ups which tweak your phone’s connectivity take onthe big mobile network companies

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This week: A turtle lands in Tokyo, the death of a much-loved villain and how friendship encourages romance

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Computer companies are harnessing the power of quantum mechanics and why the majority of bees have no economic value

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Organs on chips allow researchers to mimic complicated human systems and Wales plans to ban e-cigarettes

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Sweeping changes at Deutsche Bank and HSBC and Iceland's capital controls are lifted, delicately

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"War Art with Eddie Redmayne" examines the artists of the first world war including the creators of false trees, anti-torpedo dazzle paint and portraits of the wounded

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