Meeting People
Amul Pandya converses with independent, adventurous and sometimes courteous free spirits. Creativity is an act of rebellion. Whether they are entrepreneurs, artists, athletes, investors, chefs, or corporate antagonists, Amul's guests all share a common disposition of not just pushing boundaries but re-drawing landscapes.
Meeting People
Latest Episodes
#33 Rewilding Nature with Peter Smith and Henry George
Peter Smith is an ecologist who has worked tirelessly for decades to protect and revitalise Britain's nature reserves. He was the founder of the Wildwood Trust and was one of the central pioneering figures who helped drive the reintroduction of...
#32 Dr Stephen Davies - The Great Realignment: Why the New Right is Here to Stay
Politics over the last 10 years has felt for many people like a continuous experience of jarring dissonance. Not for Dr Steve Davies who is an accomplished historian and political theorist. His latest book “The Great Realignment: Wh...
#31 Fred Harrison - Cheating and the Persistent Collapse of Civilisations
I'm delighted to welcome back Fred Harrison for a second appearance on Meeting People following the release of his new book Cheating: The Human Project and its Betrayal.In it he argues that "the withdrawal of Rent from its s...
#30 Fixing Britain's economy with Ewen Stewart
Could Scotland have become Singapore-on-the-Clyde in 2014 had it voted for independence?Is Boris Johnson possibly Britain's worst ever Prime Minister?Does structural reform only happen in times of crisis and how deep is t...
#29 Being a low status conservative on the wrong side of history with Ed West
Professor Bryan Caplan coined the Ideological Turing Test which measures whether a person truly understands an opposing political or ideological viewpoint. To help us pass the test when it comes to conservatism as a school of political ...