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The Specialist | S. Sudjojono and the Awakening of Indonesian Modern Art, Jasmine Prasetio

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, the emergence of a monumental painting by S. Sudjojono, long hidden in a private collection. Jasmine Prasetio, Managing Director of Sotheby's Southeast Asia, first encountered the composition as a blurry photo on a mobile phone, but went on to orchestrate its record breaking sale at auction.

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The Specialist | S. Sudjojono and the Awakening of Indonesian Modern Art, Jasmine Prasetio

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What Does China's Seismic Economic Progress Mean for the USA? With Dan Wang

America used to pride itself on ambition. Today, it looks stuck. [...]

The Specialist | Fabergé’s Rediscovered Imperial Flower, with Helen Culver-Smith

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How did the fourteenth century shape England? With Helen Carr

The death of Edward I in 1307 marked the beginning of a period of [...]

The Specialist | David's Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis, with Benjamin Doller

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Evan Osnos: Inside the World of the Ultrarich

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The Specialist | Bahman Mohassess’ Enduring Legacy, with Ashkan Baghestani

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The Specialist | The Greatest Persian Manuscript: A Story Fit For Kings, with Benedict Carter

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The Specialist | From Orsay to Auction: The Turbulent Journey of Vollard’s Gauguin

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The Specialist | The Scream Heard Around the World, with Simon Shaw

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Charlottesville: An American Story, With Deborah Baker

In August 2017, over a thousand neo-Nazis, fascists, Klan members, and [...]

The Specialist | The Rise of Carrington and the Female Surrealists, with Julian Dawes

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The Specialist | A Ten-Year Vermeer Attribution Project, with Gregory Rubinstein

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The Specialist | The Cabinet Detective of Urbino, with Mario Tavella

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The Specialist | The Rediscovery of Rubens’ The Massacre of the Innocents, with George Gordon

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The Specialist | Clyfford Still: The Mission to Establish a Museum, with Lisa Dennison

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The Specialist | The Untold Story of the Shredded Banksy, with Alex Branczik

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The Specialist | A Masterpiece by Kandinsky: a Story of Restitution, with Helena Newman

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The Specialist | Jenny Saville and the Art of the Sale, with Ottilie Windsor

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The Specialist | The Chicken Cup: Mankind’s Most Faked Object, with Nicolas Chow

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The Specialist | Beyond Black: Pierre Soulages’ Market Turning Point, with Grégoire Billault

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Michael Lewis: In Urgent Defence of Government, with Gillian Tett

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The concept of government is under attack. In the United States, Donald Trump has fired tens of thousands of federal workers; ignored congressional statutes; insulted judges; and allowed Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, access to sensitive government information in a slash-and-burn campaign against the US government.

In June 2025 Michael Lewis, the renowned author of bestselling non-fiction masterpieces including Moneyball, The Big Short, Flash Boys and Liar’s Poker, came to the Intelligence Squared stage to tell the inside story of how the Trump administration is dismantling the government and how potentially disastrous the consequences for us all might be.

Drawing from his new collection of essays Who is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service, Lewis argued that we must remember the often overlooked ways government officials do work that is deeply consequential to our lives. He shared impactful stories of public service, such as the story of a coal miner devoted to making mine roofs less likely to collapse and an Internal Revenue Service agent fighting tax evasion like a character straight out of a crime thriller.

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An Evening with Matt Haig: Embracing Hope, Wonder and the Power of the Imagination (Part 1)

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The Power of Good Conversation, with Jefferson Fisher (Part 1)

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How To Cure Your Algorithm, with Jamie Bartlett

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Truth Hurts: From Conflict to Connection, with Dr Julia Ebner

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How To Cure Your Algorithm, with Jamie Bartlett

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Truth Hurts: From Conflict to Connection, with Dr Julia Ebner

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The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook, with Helen Thompson

‘The world as we knew it is gone’ – UK Prime Minister Sir Keir [...]

Tricks, Trolls, and LOLs: Comedy’s Crash Course in Spotting Lies,, with Rachel Parris

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Tricks, Trolls, and LOLs: Comedy’s Crash Course in Spotting Lies

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What Can The Stoics Teach Us About Capitalism? With Robert Rosenkranz and Bill Browder (Part 1)

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Abundance: A New Blueprint for Liberal Politics, With Derek Thompson (Part 1)

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Jonathan Haidt on How to Free the Anxious Generation (Part 1)

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Is Prosperity Possible Without Growth? | Professor Tim Jackson (Part 1)

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The World in 2025 with Robert Kaplan: Finding A Way Through Permanent Crisis (Part 1)

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The Afterlife of Data, with Carl Öhman (Part One)

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The Rise of Spotify, with Liz Pelly and Timandra Harkness (Part 1)

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The Age of The Strongman: Understanding Putin, with Catherine Belton (Part 1)

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Chokepoints: Economic Warfare in the Modern World, with Edward Fishman (Part 1)

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Justin Webb on The Trump World Order (Part 1)

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Nick Cave and Seán O’Hagan on Faith, Hope and Carnage (part 2)

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‘We are all, at some point in our lives, obliterated by loss. If you haven’t been by now, you will be in time – that’s for sure. And, of course, if you have been fortunate enough to have been truly loved, in this world, you will also cause extraordinary pain to others when you leave it. That’s the covenant of life and death, and the terrible beauty of grief.’ – Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage

In the depths of the pandemic of summer 2020 Nick Cave began a series of long conversations with his old friend Seán O’Hagan. The 40 hours of recordings have been distilled into a remarkable bestselling book, Faith, Hope and Carnage. In it Cave, one of the world’s most acclaimed and visionary musicians, talks with radical candour about his past, his loves, his work ethic, his creativity and the agony of losing his 15-year-old son Arthur in 2015. The book addresses all the big questions: What is love? How does faith work? How do we handle grief?

In November 2023 Cave and O’Hagan came to the Intelligence Squared stage to continue the conversation, as they explored the human condition and offered hoped. As Cave says, ‘Despite how debased or corrupt we are told humanity is, and how degraded the world has become, it just keeps on being beautiful. It can’t help it.’

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The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook with Martin Wolf (2025)

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2025 is set to be a seismic year for the global economy. Donald Trump will return to the White House with an ‘America First’ agenda that threatens to dismantle global trade. Wars in Ukraine and Gaza could continue to escalate and cause turmoil in diplomacy. And the race to develop AI will accelerate as China and the US battle it out for technological supremacy.

Who better to make sense of these unsettling and fast-changing times than Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times? Widely regarded as one of the world’s most influential writers on the global economy and a multi-award-winning financial journalist, Wolf has been chronicling and analysing geopolitical and economic upheaval for nearly 40 years. He has written five bestselling books. His latest, The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism, maps out the implications of globalisation, technological development and the impact of democratic decline on the global economy.

Wolf joined us onstage for the this installment of the Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook as he discussed what we can expect from 2025 and beyond in conversation with BBC News presenter and Royal Correspondent Jonny Dymond.

The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook is presented in partnership with Guinness Global Investors. To find out more visit: https://www.guinnessgi.com/

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Comedy in Dark Times, with Armando Iannucci and Helen Lewis (part 2)

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What Went Wrong with Liberalism and How We Can Save it, with Samuel Moyn (Part 1)

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How AI is Changing Warfare (Part 1)

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Old World vs New World: The Great Wine Debate, with Jancis Robinson and Oz Clarke (Part 1)

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France, Italy, Spain, Germany: these are the ancient Old World wine-growing regions of Europe, where continuity and history reign supreme. California, Australia, South Africa and Chile: these are some of the New World areas, where technology and science trump tradition. Old World wines tend to be light-bodied, with herbal, mineral and floral components. New World wines, thanks to warmer climates, are generally full-bodied, fruity and higher in alcohol. But which wines are the greater? To battle it out, Intelligence Squared brought together two of the UK’s most celebrated wine experts for this major debate.

Fighting for the tradition and terroir of the Old World was Jancis Robinson, wine correspondent of the Financial Times and the first person outside the wine trade to qualify as a Master of Wine.

Fighting for the modernising spirit of the New World was Oz Clarke, the last winner of the World Wine Tasting Championship, and the youngest ever British Wine Taster of the Year.

When it comes to the Old World, Robinson argued, you can’t beat thousands of years of experience. Europe’s winemakers have been perfecting their craft for countless generations. ‘Their terroirs are in the perfect climatological zones and are generally unaffected by the worst effects of climate change,’ she says. ‘And the best of them just taste, and mature, so much better than the best New World wines.’ As she pointed out, you can’t just suddenly throw up your trellises on a distant continent and expect the Old World’s centuries of refinement to spring from your casks. New World wines are over-ripe, fruit-forward, palate-pleasing young pretenders made on an industrial scale.

But isn’t our reverence for Old World wine sheer nostalgia? That’s what Oz Clarke argued. It’s been over 40 years, he reminded us, since the New World’s superiority over France was definitively put to rest. At the ‘Judgment of Paris’ in 1976, British wine expert Steven Spurrier staged a blind wine tasting for France’s greatest wine critics. New World wines won in every category. Proof, Clarke demonstrated, that New World wines possess a vitality that hidebound Old World wines don’t dare open themselves to.

So which world should prevail? The balanced elegance of the Old World? Or the bold verve and experimentalism of the New World?Show More

The Poetry Pharmacy Returns with William Sieghart and Sarah Dunant (Part 1)

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This event took place on 24th October 2019.

William Sieghart’s The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind and Soul was one of the publishing sensations of the past few years. Anyone who came to the event Intelligence Squared built around it – when Jeanette Winterson, Helena Bonham Carter, Jason Isaacs,Sue Perkins and Tom Burke joined Sieghart in celebrating the power of poetry – will remember what a magical evening it was.

Now, after huge demand, Sieghart is back with a second volume – The Poetry Pharmacy Returns – and once again Intelligence Squared is brought it to all to life on stage. Whether your spiritual ailment is loneliness, heartache or anxiety, Sieghart has a poem to meet your needs. He was joined in conversation by acclaimed novelist and broadcaster Sarah Dunant. With their signature warmth and wit, they discussed poems from the new book, each one matched to a particular problem, whether it’s unrequited love, fear of the unknown or feeling daunted by the challenges of family life. And we had a stellar cast of actors to perform the poems, revealing their power to connect us to our fellow humans, bringing comfort and hope.

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Jonathan Haidt on the Rise of The Anxious Generation (Part 2)

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Bestselling author and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt has dedicated his career to speaking truth and wisdom in some of the most challenging spaces – communities polarised by politics and religion and university campuses mired in culture wars. Now he turns his attention to what he sees as a perfect storm of factors that are causing a collapse in mental health among teenagers today. According to the American College Health Association, since 2010 anxiety among American college students has increased by 134%, depression by 106%, bipolar disorder by 57%, and anorexia by 100%.

In April 2024 Haidt came to the Intelligence Squared stage where in conversation with BBC presenter Sarah Montague he drew on his new book The Anxious Generation, which has shot to No 1 in the Sunday Times bestsellers. He argued that the decline of free play in childhood and the rise of smartphone use among adolescents are the twin sources of increased mental distress among teenagers. He showed how, between 2010 and 2015, as teens traded in their flip phones for smartphones packed with social media apps, time online soared. This profound shift took place against a backdrop of diminishing childhood freedom, as parents over-supervised every aspect of their children’s lives offline, depriving them of the face-to-face experiences with their peers which they need to become strong and self-governing adults. In short, childhood got rewired.

Haidt argued that it isn’t too late to put the genie back in the bottle. Against the backdrop of the growing movement to ban smartphones in schools, he drew on traditional wisdom and cutting-edge research to offer practical advice to parents, teachers and teenagers.

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The World in 2025 with Peter Frankopan & Emily Maitlis: Making Sense of our Past, Present and Future

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