Wider Angle

Storytelling Podcasts

Wider Angle is New Lines magazine’s weekly podcast that features engaging, spirited conversations on a variety of important themes in culture and politics in societies around the world. The show’s host, Riada Asimovic Akyol, interviews fascinating...

Episodes

Hyperconnectivity’s Unsettling Changes — with Rogers Brubaker

‘Spin Dictators’ — with Daniel Treisman

A Pilot’s Explorations of the World’s Cities - with Mark Vanhoenacker

Turkey After a Cataclysmic Earthquake — with Soli Ozel

Reflections on Contemporary Hong Kong — with Karen Cheung

‘Hysterical’ Women — with Elissa Bassist

Africa’s Complexities Beyond Stereotypes — with Dipo Faloyin

The threat of Proud Boys— with Andy Campbell

Hair, Skin and Black Women Political Elites— with Nadia E. Brown

The Manufacture and Weaponization of Shame —- with Cathy O’Neil

Syrian Muslims in the American Midwest — with Edward E. Curtis IV

“What Reality TV Says About Us” — with Danielle J. Lindemann

“Escape From Auschwitz” — with Jonathan Freedland

Understanding Different Emotions Across Cultures — with Batja Mesquita

Hollywood, China and competition for cultural dominance— with Erich Schwartzel

Young Indian Women’s Aspirations and Shah Rukh Khan’s Fandom – with Shrayana Bhattacharya

Christian Nationalism in the United States — with Andrew Whitehead

Sally Hayden on Deadly Migration Routes in the Mediterranean