CONFLICTED
Hosted by Thomas Small and Aimen and Jake Warren and Max Warren · Message Heard
4.7from 1,507 ratings
- 240
- Episodes
- 141
- Transcribed
- 1,507
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2018
- First episode
About CONFLICTED
An ex-Al Qaeda jihadi turned MI6 spy and a former monk turned filmmaker, have been embedded at the heart of conflicts in the Middle East. Together Aimen Dean and Thomas Small unpack the realities of war, fundamentalism and their global implications through first-hand experience.
- Publisher
- Message Heard
- Category
- history · religion & spirituality
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 16 Nov 2018
- Latest episode
- 8 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
141 of 240 episodes have a transcript.
8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Adrian Wooldridge: Can Liberalism Save Itself?
6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Real Geopolitics of Sudan’s Civil War
2 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Middle East Braces for Escalation
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Adrian Wooldridge: Can Liberalism Save Itself?
Published 8 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And Erasmus is an exemplar of a certain temperament, and that temperament is scholarly, civilized, modest, and tolerant. And he lives a certain life, and you're getting a world when Erasmus comes along, which is suddenly divided between two certainties, two certain orthodoxies. One of those certainties is Protestantism, And the other one is Roman Catholicism in its counter-reformation form. And these are people who, because they're so inflamed with certainty, go along to do all sorts of atrocious things, to burn people, to burn books, to do terrible tortures, to impose their religious beliefs on people. […]
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- Adrian Wooldridge
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- Mohammed al-Basha
- Anthony Kaldellis
- Philip Cunliffe
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- 4.6 / 5
- 494 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 1,013 ratings
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Thomas Small and Aimen and Jake Warren and Max Warren host the show. Published by Message Heard.
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