Exploring books for a better world.
This podcast series features a global development related book each month and interview with the author. The aim is to provide an insight on what’s behind the book as well as what’s in it – the context, the ideas underpinning it and why it matters. Each episode will reveal something of the author’s unique imaginations and the personality behind their writing.
Episodes are published on the first Wednesday of every month.
–between the lines– podcast series
In this episode of --between the lines-- IDS Director Melissa Leach speaks to renowned economists and authors Nicholas Stern and Himanshu from LSE, about their book How Lives Change: Palanpur, India and Development Economics. They discuss how a small village in India to illuminate the drivers...
–between the lines– podcast series
In this episode of --between the lines-- author Hilary Wainwright speaks with IDS Director of Research John Gaventa about her book A New Politics from the Left. Hilary argues that a viable alternative to austerity and neoliberalism requires a new politics for the left that comes from the...
–between the lines– podcast series
In this episode of --between the lines-- Sir Richard Jolly speaks to Kul Chandra Gautam about his book Global Citizen from Gulmi and his inspirational life journey from a remote village in Nepal to the highest ranks of the UN. Download transcription Listen
–between the lines– podcast series
Thousands of people in dozens of countries took to the streets when world food prices spiked in 2008 and 2011. What does the persistence of popular mobilization around food tell us about the politics of subsistence in an era of integrated food markets and universal human rights? In this episode...