by What Rhymes With Now?
History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. What Rhymes With Now? is a podcast, produced by Louis Walsh, that puts today's biggest challenges in historical perspective. Each episode, host Patrick Cook interviews a leading historian about a period that illuminates something urgent about the present. If you're looking for the bigger picture, this is your show.
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July 22, 2026
<p>Why does it feel like the UK (and the West in general) can't build anything anymore? Why is nuclear so hotly debated by environmentalists and policy makers? What can we do to get clean, cheap energy and infrastructure?</p><p>Patrick speaks with Professor Simon Taylor about the history and financing of nuclear power in Britain — from the early ambitions of the civil nuclear programme to the cost overruns, cancelled projects, and policy reversals that followed. They trace how well-intentioned regulation and short-term political incentives have combined to make major infrastructure in Britain slower and more expensive to build than it once was, and what — if anything — can be done to fix it.</p><p>Professor Simon Taylor is a Management Practice Professor in Finance at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. He writes at https://www.simontaylorsblog.com</p><p>What Rhymes With Now? is a podcast looking at what we can learn from history to help us face our current challenges. Find us on all platforms: https://linktr.ee/whatrhymeswithnow</p>
July 8, 2026
<p>Ayşe Zarakol is Professor of International Relations at the University of Cambridge and a Politics Fellow at Emmanuel College. She is the author of Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders, which argues that the sovereign, universalist world orders we associate with the modern West have older precedents in the great Eastern empires — and that understanding how those orders rose and fell tells us something about how our own might end.</p><p><br></p><p>In this conversation we discuss the history of large scale political orders, periods of disorder, and the future of the current Western world order in the 21st century. Ayse argues that the 17th century has many lessons that could be relevant for us in the 21st century, </p>
June 24, 2026
<p>An additional clip from Patrick's discussion with Andy Beckett.</p><p>16/04/2026</p>
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History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. What Rhymes With Now? is a podcast, produced by Louis Walsh, that puts today's biggest challenges in historical perspective.
Each episode, host Patrick Cook interviews a leading historian about a period that illuminates something urgent about the present. If you're looking for the bigger picture, this is your show.
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