Financial Times
Is being authentic enough to be a leader? | Opinion
► Subscribe to FT.com here: http://bit.ly/2r8RJzM The FT's editor Lionel Barber and Janan Ganesh, our chief political commentator, discuss the recent political party candidates and examine whether being authentic is sufficient to be an...
Financial Times
Echoes of former Yugoslavia
As tensions in Ukraine rise, parallels are being drawn between the situation there today and in the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. Tony Barber, Europe editor, and Gideon Rachman, chief foreign affairs commentator, discuss the...
World Science Festival
Platonism vs. Formalism
Platonists believe that there is a universal truth underlying all of mathematics. Formalists believe all of mathematics can be defined by a set of predefined rules. Ever wonder about the deeper significance of these two critical...
Big Think
What causes income inequality and tribal politics | Bill Drayton
Read more at BigThink.com: Follow Big Think here: YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BigThinkdotcom Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink Bill Drayton: Maybe a good way to get into this is to ask: why are...
The New Yorker
The Call and Response of History | The New Yorker
In the fourth and final installment of a political discussion series with the Public Theatre, David Remnick and the Rev. William J. Barber II discuss the systemic racism of the Trump Administration’s policies. Still haven’t subscribed to...
Financial Times
Wanda chief on Hollywood and football | Companies
► Subscribe to FT.com here: http://on.ft.com/2eZZoLI Wang Jianlin, chairman of Dalian Wanda and China's richest man, talks to FT editor Lionel Barber about investing in Hollywood, the huge transfer fees in Chinese football and the future...
Curated Video
A Genealogy of Liberty: A Lecture by Quentin Skinner
"What is liberty? This cherished ideal, which lies at the heart of our democracy, has proved very difficult to define. In this provocative lecture, eminent political theorist Quentin Skinner explores some influential meanings of...
NPR
In The Village, Wilbur Goes To Work
Wilbur Sargunaraj introduces us to a barber, bullocks cart driver, farmers and a woman who balances a jug on her head.
Curated Video
Science stories – Sustainability
How do we face the same challenges now as we did 350 years ago? Professor Robin Perutz, Fellow of the Royal Society, looks at how ‘new ideas’ such as the greenhouse effect and alternative fuels were built on old ideas through the pages...
Royal Opera House
How to sing Rossini with Mark Elder (The Royal Opera)
Conductor Mark Elder and mezzo-soprano Rachel Kelly explore the music of Rossini through Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville). Find out more at http://www.roh.org.uk/barbiere The 23-year-old Gioachino Rossini completed his...
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
Why Alien Life Would be our Doom - The Great Filter
The first 688 people to use this link will get 20% off their annual membership: http://brilliant.org/nutshell Thanks a lot to Brilliant for supporting this channel. Finding alien life on a distant planet would be amazing news - or would...
The March of Time
US Congressman Voorhis hours
MOT 1945: U.S. CONGRESSMAN VOORHIS LONG HOURS: INT VS Congressman Jerry Voorhis in barber shop getting haircut. MS Voorhis at desk w/ papers picking up telephone. CU Clock apprx. 7:45. (POV behind) WS Voorhis walking down hall.
Financial Times
Are the British too negative? | FT Comment
► Subscribe to the Financial Times on YouTube: http://bit.ly/FTimeSubs Could British miserablism be a serious threat to the UK economy and the country's politics? Lionel Barber, FT editor, and Janan Ganesh, political columnist, discuss...
Financial Times
UK election: lessons from the campaign
► Subscribe to FT.com here: http://bit.ly/2r8RJzM The FT's political columnist Janan Ganesh and editor Lionel Barber discuss a campaign that turned out to be something quite different from what people expected. ► Subscribe to the...
Financial Times
Mandela: the man and the legacy
► Subscribe to the Financial Times on YouTube: http://bit.ly/FTimeSubs Nelson Mandela has died, aged 95. Alec Russell, news editor and former South Africa correspondent, who knew Mandela intimately, talks to FT editor Lionel Barber about...
Financial Times
A federal UK? | FT Comment
► Subscribe to the Financial Times on YouTube: http://bit.ly/FTimeSubs FT editor Lionel Barber speaks to political commentator Janan Ganesh, who argues that whatever the outcome of the upcoming UK general election, a federal — or...
The March of Time
Composers at meeting
MOT 1943: NEW YORK CITY: COMPOSER'S MEETING: Composer critic Virgil Thompson (1896-1989) standing. Composer Samuel Barber (1910-1981) in soldier's uniform & composer William Schumann (1910-1992) sitting in chairs. (Poor Contrast) WWII
The Guardian
Faith, fathers and fresh fades
In this episode of Modern Masculinity, the Guardian journalist Iman Amrani speaks to Mark Maciver, who owns the barber shop SliderCuts in Hackney, London. His clients include the boxer Anthony Joshua and the musician Stormzy, but his...
The Guardian
When you're not working you don't feel like a man
Iman Amrani is back with Modern Masculinity, looking at the issues affecting men which relate to mental health in the shadow of Covid-19. In this episode, she returns to Leeds to speak to Neil, a barber who she met in series one, to find...
The March of Time
Using electricity, lifestyle improvements
MOT 1936: USING TVA ELECTRICITY: Barber w/ electric razor hairdresser drying female's hair couple having refridgerator delivered woman putting water in washing machine elder woman cooking elder male reading book by lamp Black male...
Financial Times
The next steps for Catalonia
FT's chief foreign affairs commentator Gideon Rachman and Europe editor Tony Barber discuss events in the Spanish region and their implications for political stability.
Financial Times
The case for a new centrist political party in Britain
There has been a lot of talk in Britain about the need for a new centrist political party. Political commentator Janan Ganesh talks to FT editor Lionel Barber about whether this is something that could happen.
Natural History Museum
A closer look at aye-ayes
Have you watched our video about nose-picking aye-ayes? https://youtu.be/dhp5M3kAkGM Join James Ashworth and Museum scientist Nicole Barber to find out more about them and what we can learn from our collections. ---------------- The...
One Minute History
059 Crispus Attucks and The Boston Massacre - One Minute History
March 5, 1770 - Boston - Tensions are high in the wake of the Stamp Act and the Townshend Acts. British soldiers of the 29th Regiment respond to a crowd of colonists who have gathered to confront an English officer accused of not paying...