The EI Podcast
by Engelsberg Ideas
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Estimated from 7 chart positions in 7 markets.
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- 🇬🇧GB · History#1325K to 30K
- 🇲🇽MX · History#1981K to 10K
- 🇵🇹PT · History#4510K to 30K
- 🇹🇭TH · History#103500 to 3K
- 🇿🇦ZA · History#121500 to 3K
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5.4K to 25K🎙 Daily cadence·369 episodes·Last published today - Monthly Reach
Unique listeners across all episodes (30 days)
18K to 82K🇬🇧37%🇵🇹37%🇲🇽12%+4 more - Active Followers
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5.4K to 25K
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The novel in Britain: from cover to cover
Sep 3, 2026
1h 08m 09s
Journeys in Europe’s grey zone
Aug 27, 2026
37m 29s
Machiavelli still matters
Aug 20, 2026
37m 07s
The entire history of cinema in one shot
Aug 13, 2026
47m 30s
America’s universal document: a curious history
Aug 6, 2026
49m 02s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9/3/26 |  The novel in Britain: from cover to cover | Philip Hensher speaks to Alastair Benn about his new book, ‘A History of the Novel in Britain’, a stylish and very personal survey of a great tradition.Image: Portrait of Algernon Talmage circa 1915, by Hilda Fearon. Credit: Alamy | 1h 08m 09s | ||||||
| 8/27/26 |  Journeys in Europe’s grey zone | Hannah Lucinda Smith speaks to Caitlin Allen about her new book, ‘Hinterlands: Journeys through Europe’s Unfinished Frontiers’.Image: United Nations Buffer Zone near the ghost town resort of Varosha, Famagusta, Cyprus. Credit: Alamy | 37m 29s | ||||||
| 8/20/26 |  Machiavelli still matters | Stephen Bowd speaks to Paul Lay about why, 500 years after his death, Niccolò Machiavelli remains one of the world’s most vital political philosophers.Image: Portrait of Niccolò Machiavelli (1570). Credit: Alamy | 37m 07s | ||||||
| 8/13/26 |  The entire history of cinema in one shot | Film critic David Thomson speaks to Paul Lay about his new book, ‘A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of the Movies’. Image: A sign advertises the opening of the Hollywoodland housing development in the hills overlooking Los Angeles. Credit: Alamy | 47m 30s | ||||||
| 8/6/26 |  America’s universal document: a curious history | Marking 250 years since the Declaration of Independence, Michael Auslin speaks to Paul Lay about the document’s powerful yet often strange afterlife. From Philadelphia in 1776, through the Civil War, the Gilded Age, both World Wars and the Cold War, America’s founding document has been a perennial symbol of hope. Image: An illustration from ‘Columbia's Courtship: A Picture History of the United States in Twelve Emblematic Designs in Color with Accompanying Verses’ by Walter Crane (1983). Credit: Alamy | 49m 02s | ||||||
| 7/30/26 |  The alien world of Homer’s Odyssey | What does Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of ‘The Odyssey’ have in common with Homer’s poem? Classicist and actor Orlando Gibbs speaks to Alastair Benn about the strangeness of this ancient epic, which depicts a moral world far removed from Nolan’s secular and post-Christian worldview, and discusses whether its popularity will lead to a renewed interest in the classical world.Image: Odysseus and the Sirens, represented on an ancient Greek vase. Credit: Alamy | 1h 09m 03s | ||||||
| 7/23/26 |  How wine made the modern world | Historian Kathleen Burk speaks to Max Mitchell about the long history of humanity's relationship with wine, taking us on a journey from the ancient Near East to modern France.Image: A vineyard near the Temple of Zeus at Ancient Nemea, Korinthia, Greece. Credit: Alamy | 38m 37s | ||||||
| 7/20/26 | archaeologySaudi Arabia+3 | — | Alamy | Saudi ArabiaQasr Al Farid | Saudi Arabiaarchaeology+3 | — | 19m 27s | ||
| 7/16/26 | diplomacyWorld War II+3 | Peter Ricketts | — | BritainFrance+1 | diplomacyHitler+5 | — | 35m 56s | ||
| 7/13/26 | wardiplomacy+3 | — | — | — | wardiplomacy+5 | — | 15m 36s | ||
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| 7/9/26 | geopolitical rivalryGreat Powers+4 | Brendan Simms | EI | — | geopoliticsGreat Powers+4 | — | 1h 03m 26s | ||
| 7/6/26 | nuclear weaponsCold War+3 | — | Engelsberg Ideas | GermanyBavaria | nuclear dilemmaGermany+5 | — | 20m 08s | ||
| 7/2/26 | American historypolitical conspiracies+3 | Phil Tinline | Ghosts of Iron Mountain: The Hoax that Duped America and its Sinister Legacy | United States | American experimentpolitical history+3 | — | 46m 10s | ||
| 6/29/26 | Russiageopolitics+3 | Stephen Kotkin | Engelsberg IdeasWhere is Russia’s place in the world? | RussiaEast Asia+1 | Russiageopolitics+4 | — | 42m 46s | ||
| 6/25/26 | ChristianityRoman Empire+3 | Tim Whitmarsh | Rome’s Age of Revolution: Augustus, Empire and the Making of Christianity | Turin | ChristianityRoman Empire+6 | — | 46m 00s | ||
| 6/22/26 | French cinemaJean Eustache+4 | — | Engelsberg IdeasNouvelle Vague | France | Jean EustacheFrench cinema+5 | — | 16m 48s | ||
| 6/18/26 | warpeace+3 | Margaret MacMillan | — | — | warpeace+5 | — | 43m 33s | ||
| 6/15/26 |  Testament to doomed media | The old media has failed to rise to the challenge of tech, but we'll miss it when it's gone.Read the original essay here: https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/testament-to-doomed-media/. Image: Woman reading a newspaper. Credit: Alamy | 17m 09s | ||||||
| 6/11/26 | Armeniaelections+3 | Thomas de Waal | — | ArmeniaCaucasus+1 | Armeniaelections+3 | — | 33m 34s | ||
| 6/8/26 | spy fictionmoral complexity+3 | Leighton Pugh | Engelsberg IdeasThe Ipcress File | — | Len Deightonspycraft+3 | — | 33m 16s | ||
| 6/4/26 | Chinaeconomic strategy+3 | George Magnus | Engelsberg Ideas | China | Chinaeconomic supremacy+3 | — | 47m 47s | ||
| 6/1/26 | Jewish communityAmerican history+3 | — | American Jewish Congress | AmericaIsrael | Jewish-Americancivil rights+3 | — | 24m 41s | ||
| 5/28/26 | Jewish-Muslim relationshistorical connections+3 | Marc David Baer | Children of Abraham: The Story of Jewish-Muslim Relations | Marrakech, Morocco | MuslimsJews+5 | — | 42m 23s | ||
| 5/26/26 | CS LewisNarnia+3 | Hannah Lucinda Smith | Engelsberg IdeasNearTheCoast.com+1 | — | CS LewisNarnia+3 | — | 17m 41s | ||
| 5/21/26 | photographydocumentary+3 | Maura Smith | Steve Schapiro: Being Everywhere | — | Steve Schapirophotographer+3 | — | 37m 20s | ||
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Chart history for The EI Podcast
Peaked at #45 in PT, currently #45 in PT.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PT | — | #45 | #45 | — |
| TH | — | #103 | #103 | — |
| South Africa | — | #121 | #121 | — |
| Finland | — | #122 | #122 | — |
| United Kingdom | — | #132 | #132 | — |
| HU | — | #185 | #185 | — |
| Mexico | — | #198 | #198 | — |
Chart Positions
7 placements across 7 markets.
Chart Positions
7 placements across 7 markets.