Novara Media
New Media for Different Politics
Novara Media
Show overview
Novara Media has been publishing since 2023, and across the 3 years since has built a catalogue of 314 episodes. That works out to roughly 420 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a several-times-a-week cadence.
Episodes typically run an hour to ninety minutes — most land between 1h 6m and 1h 34m — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-GB-language News show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 4 days ago, with 40 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2024, with 111 episodes published.
From the publisher
Novara Media is an independent media organisation addressing the issues—from a crisis of capitalism to racism and climate change—that are set to define the 21st century.
Latest Episodes
View all 314 episodesDownstream: The Most Influential Leftist You’ve Never Heard Of w/ Peter Mertens
ACFM Microdose: New Weird Britain
Do Your Own Research: What the World’s Most Famous Marxist Really Thinks of Zohran Mamdani w/ David Harvey
Downstream: British Politics Is About to Collapse w/ James Meadway
Do Your Own Research: How The Far Right Captured British Politics w/ Daniel Trilling
Downstream: The Truth About Smartphones’ Dirty Supply Chain w/ Nicholas Niarchos
Do Your Own Research: You Can’t Have Billionaires and Democracy. Ancient Collapse Proves It. w/ Luke Kemp
Downstream: Europe’s Ancient Myths, Current Crises & Future Possibilities w/ Roderick Beaton
The Human Cost of Britain’s Dark Money Industry w/ Peter Geoghegan & Stephanie Brobbey
Downstream: The Secrets of the Chinese Internet w/ Yi-Ling Liu
ACFM Trip 59: Hobbies
Do Your Own Research: The Iran War Will Collapse the American Empire w/ Alfred McCoy
Iran Threatens Retaliation Against Trump’s Criminal Threats
Downstream: Is Liberalism Finally Waking Up to the Crises it has Caused? w/ Adrian Wooldridge
The Greens WILL Beat Labour w/ Hannah Spencer and Faiza Shaheen
Last week at EartH Hackney, Dalia Gebrial sat down with Hannah Spencer, the new MP for Gorton and Denton, and Faiza Shaheen, the director of Tax Justice UK. The three women discuss Hannah’s massive landslide victory, her first few weeks in Parliament, and what a wealth tax would actually look like. What approach did Faiza […]
ACFM Trip 58: Boredom
When was the last time you were bored? Nadia, Jem and Keir wonder if ennui is a feeling that belongs in the past – and what a boredom-free life might be missing. Is compulsive scrolling a modern symptom of boredom? Why are spiritual practices often based around tedious repetition? Do bored workers make better organisers? What […]
Do Your Own Research: Isolated, Scared, and Furious: Welcome to the Age of Hyperpolitics
In the last decade and a half, society has got vastly more politicised: Occupy, Black Lives Matter, the Me Too Movement and many other movements besides mobilised hundreds of millions of people around the world. So where are the massive organisations that big mobilisations brought in the 20th century? They don’t exist. For all the […]
Downstream: The Right Is Winning. Here’s How We Change That w/ Ash Sarkar
Aaron Bastani sat down with Novara Media’s own Ash Sarkar, to celebrate the paperback release of her bestselling book, Minority Rule. ‘Minority rule’ is the term Ash used to describe the irrational fear that minorities are trying to overturn and oppress majority populations. She revealed how minority elites rule majorities by creating the culture wars […]
Do Your Own Research: How Musk’s Paranoid Empire Really Works w/ Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff
The most powerful CEO in history is barely a person anymore. But it’s not just his X-addled brain that has transformed him. He has deeply integrated himself in the ‘cyborg collective’ – a world of electrons, brain implants, fantastical promises, financial systems, bots, and memes – he has made for himself. Henry Ford gave his name to […]
Downstream: The Middle Class Is Collapsing. Fascism Could Be Next w/ Clara Mattei
Rising unemployment, increased military spending, and a decline in living standards for most people, including the middle class: the description fits both the 1930s and the 2020s. In the 1930s, it was a situation that morphed into the destruction and horror of the Second World War. On Downstream with Aaron Bastani this week is Clara […]