Season six - WORLD: we got this with Esau Williams

Join Esau Williams and guests on The 'WORLD: we got this' podcast series as they discuss some of the biggest - and some of the most neglected - world news stories of the week. 

Episode 2: Spotlight on China – SEZs in Africa, China’s ghost cities and China in US elections

In this special episode for the Lau China Institute’s China Week, Esau is joined by Dr Charlotte Goodburn to discuss her new report on the impact of China-linked economic development zones in Africa, Dr Jane Hayward explains China’s many vacant cities, and Professor Astrid Nordon and Dr Sean Kenji-Starrs discuss the China question in the US elections.

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Episode 1: Nuclear energy; Modi in US; September flooding

With Esau this episode: Professor Frans Berkhout talks about the pledge by the big banks to triple nuclear energy by 2050; Dr Anastasia Piliavsky digs deeper into Narendra Modi's visit to the US; and PhD candidate Teyah Payne discusses recent flooding in the global north and south. 

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Ex-BBC man comes full circle as new podcast host

Esau Williams, the new host of the School of Global Affairs podcast, will be recording his episodes in the same building, Bush House, where he once produced programmes for millions of listeners to the BBC World Service.

Esau worked at the BBC as a journalist and presenter for over 13 years. He produced, edited, and presented some of the corporation’s flagship news and current affairs programmes, and even won the BBC the prestigious Peabody Award for his reporting on the 2014 Ebola outbreak.

Read more about our presenter, Esau.