Épisodes

  • Venezuela: History, Politics, and Hope
    Dec 12 2025

    In this episode, Valeria speaks to Carmen Gomez, a first-year PPE student here at King's, about the history leading up to Venezuela's present-day politics, and how hope appears through new political actors and international relations.

    If you enjoyed this episode and think you'd make a great future guest on the podcast, reach out to us at kclpolitics@gmail.com


    Hosted by Valeria Abram

    Produced by Saf Riache

    In collaboration with KCL Radio


    Music:

    Neon Metaphor by ESCP | https://www.escp.space

    Free To Use | https://freetouse.com/music

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    30 min
  • Power, Politics, and Perception: How Media Shapes Women Leaders and Latin American Politics
    Nov 21 2025

    In this episode of the KCL Politics Society Podcast, Valeria speaks to Daniela Denyer, President of the KCL Women in Politics Society, about how female politicians in Latin America are framed in the media and in politics.


    If you enjoyed this episode and think you'd make a great future guest on the podcast, reach out to us at kclpolitics@gmail.com


    Hosted by Valeria Abram

    Produced by Saf Riache

    In collaboration with KCL Radio


    Music:

    Neon Metaphor by ESCP | https://www.escp.space

    Free To Use | https://freetouse.com/music

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    33 min
  • Simon Marks talks Journalism, US Politics, and New Technology
    Nov 8 2025

    In this episode, our co-hosts Penelope and Valeria speak with Simon Marks, an Emmy Award-winning journalist who has worked with LBC, The iPaper, Radio New Zealand and more, as well as having founded the world's leading broadcast agency Feature Story News (FSN).


    Simon joins us to discuss the journalism industry today, US politics and US-UK relations, and a little about how emerging technologies interact with journalism and journalists.


    If you enjoyed this episode and think you'd make a great future guest on the podcast, reach out to us at kclpolitics@gmail.com.


    Hosted by Penelope Spencer-Simpson and Valeria Abram

    Produced by Saf Riache

    In collaboration with KCL Radio


    Music:

    Neon Metaphor by ESCP | https://www.escp.space

    Free To Use | https://freetouse.com/music

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    34 min
  • Mind the Gap: The Politics of Socioeconomic Gaps at University
    Oct 24 2025

    In this episode of the KCL Politics Society Podcast, Penelope speaks to Ava Davies about being a working class student at University, and how living costs and classism affect students both economically and socially throughout their time at University.


    Read Classism and Costume Parties here!


    If you're interested in being a guest on our podcast, feel free to reach out at kclpolitics@gmail.com!


    This episode was hosted by Penelope Spencer-Simpson

    Produced by Saf Riache

    In collaboration with KCL Radio


    Music:

    Neon Metaphor by ESCP | https://www.escp.space
    Free To Use | https://freetouse.com/music


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    19 min
  • The Prison-Industrial Complex: Profits, privatisation, and incarceration.
    Mar 19 2025

    In this episode of Pulse of the Politic, Charlie talks to Anna-Julia, a first-year War Studies student who wrote an article in The Dialogue entitled "2.3 Million Shackles: Understanding the Prison Industrial Complex".

    If you would like to read the article, check out the latest edition of The Dialogue.



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    30 min
  • Invisible Islands: Exploring Small Island Developing States with Dr Hillary Briffa
    Feb 16 2025

    In this episode of Politisphere, Erik talks to Professor Hillary Briffa from King's College London. Dr. Briffa is a senior lecturer on the National Security Studies course and is the founding member of the Centre for Grand Strategy.


    If you are interested in learning more about SIDS (which you should be), then please check out the following material:


    • https://www.undp.org/latin-america/small-island-developing-states
    • https://sdgs.un.org/smallislands/about-small-island-developing-states
    • https://unfccc.int/resource/docs/publications/cc_sids.pdf


    More on Tuvalu's digital statehood:

    • https://www.tuvalu.tv/#


    If you want to check out Dr. Briffa, here is her profile and one of her papers on Small Island States:

    • https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/hillary-briffa
    • Briffa, Hillary. 2021. “The Integrated Review and the View from Small States: Time to Think Smaller?” In The Integrated Review in Context: A Strategy Fit for the 2020s?,edited by Joe Devanny and John Gearson, 86–92. Centre for Defence Studies. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/the-integrated-review-and-the-view-from-small-states-time-to-think-smaller


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    40 min
  • Electoral Reform: what is it and why do we need it? In conversation with Make Votes Matter
    Dec 16 2024

    In this episode, Charlie speaks to Olivia Standing from Make Votes Matter, a youth organisation campaigning for proportional representation in the UK. If anyone would like to learn more about Make Votes Matter and electoral reform as a whole, you can find them here:

    • https://makevotesmatter.org.uk/young-mvm/
    • https://makevotesmatter.org.uk/

    Instagram

    • @makevotesmatterofficial

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    • @MakeVotesMatter


    I hope everyone enjoys listening to the episode!

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    26 min
  • The Value of Oil: A political analysis
    Nov 3 2024

    In this episode of Politisphere, Erik talks to two King's College London students and members of the Politics Society Committee, Sophia Naraghi and Maria Howard, on the geopolitics of oil.



    If you are interested in the topic of oil geopolitics, you can check out the following material:


    Why the U.S. Can't Use the Oil it Produces. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veTbuLu7znc


    Oil Sparks in the Amazon - Local Conflicts, Indigenous Populations, and Natural Resources: Tracing Oil and Gas-Related Conflicts. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/j.ctt46n84z.6.pdf?refreqid=fastly-default%3A9e590914f304ea7219268b36b4fdf2b7&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search_gsv2%2Fcontrol&initiator=search-results&acceptTC=1


    Oil and Geopolitics: The Oil Crises of the 1970s and the Cold War. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/24145533.pdf?refreqid=fastly-default%3A9e590914f304ea7219268b36b4fdf2b7&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search_gsv2%2Fcontrol&initiator=search-results&acceptTC=1


    Here's how Russian oil is making its way to the US. https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2024/02/19/russia-oil-india-ocean-trade-vpx.cnn

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    26 min