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This Is Not A Drill with Gavin Esler

This Is Not A Drill with Gavin Esler


This Is Not A Drill with Gavin Esler

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112 episodes
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English
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Podcast

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Exploring threats to global stability from Ukraine to China to the Middle East with host Gavin Esler – former BBC News presenter, Washington correspondent and host of Newsnight – plus Ukraine-based war reporter Oz Katerji and independent conflict analyst Emma Beals. This Is Not A Drill dives deep into the dangers, corruption, conflicts, disinformation, rivalries and ruthless realpolitik that are making our world ever more dangerous.
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What does Xi want?

The new Cold War between China and the US isn’t just fought on the digital plane. China...

34 minutes
May 08, 2024

How America lost its New World Order… and what comes next

America’s war to liberate Kuwait from Saddam Hussein in 1991 was supposed to inaugurate...

39 minutes
May 01, 2024

Gold Wars, Russia’s Africa Corps… and the biggest mass migration of the 21st Century

The world has responded with stunning cynicism to the wave of coups d’etat across Centr...

45 minutes
Apr 24, 2024

Emergency Edition: Iran attacks Israel – what next?

Iran’s drone attacks on Israel, in retaliation for an Israeli strike on its embassy in ...

25 minutes
Apr 15, 2024

Guns, Drugs and Crypto – Who’s funding the return of asymmetric warfare?

Why does the militarily weaker side lose many battles but often win the war? In the 21s...

37 minutes
Apr 10, 2024

Dangerous Waters – How the world shipping system became a new battleground

Houthi attacks on shipping have thrown global supply lines into turmoil, and led 20 cou...

39 minutes
Apr 03, 2024

Update: Russia after the Crocus Hall massacre

Special edition: On Friday March 22, Islamic State gunmen murdered more than 130 people...

14 minutes
Mar 28, 2024

The new Dark Age of Espionage

The spying game was supposed to fade into history with the Cold War. But Vladimir Putin...

41 minutes
Mar 27, 2024

Defeating Russia’s Information War Machine – with Peter Pomerantsev

Putin has used digital disinformation against Ukraine and the West since long before th...

43 minutes
Mar 20, 2024

Iran and the US – Inside the Shadow War

Iran – America’s arch-enemy and the Middle East’s malign “mini-Imperial power” – fans c...

42 minutes
Mar 13, 2024