Where Shall We Meet

About Where Shall We Meet

Explorations of topics about society, culture, arts, technology and science with your hosts Natascha McElhone and Omid Ashtari. The spirit of this podcast is to interview people from all walks of life on different subjects. Our hope is to talk about ideas, divorced from our identities - listening, learning and maybe meeting somewhere in the middle. The perfect audio diet for shallow polymaths! Natascha McElhone is an actor and producer. Omid Ashtari is a tech entrepreneur and angel investor.

Publisher

Omid Ashtari & Natascha McElhone

Category

arts · society & culture · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

23 Jun 2024

Latest episode

21 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

42 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   21 Oct 2026

   On Censorship with Marc Levy

   Questions, suggestions, or feedback? Send us a message! Welcome to the Where Shall We Meet podcast. Last year, according to PEN America, nearly 12,000 book bans took place in US public schools. Our guest this week is Marc Levy, who wrote The Bookshop of Forbidden Books. He is the author of twenty-seven other novels published in fifty languages. With more than fifty million copies sold, he is the most-read French author alive. A nationwide poll by Le Figaro ranked him alongside Victor Hugo as ...

2. 

   7 Oct 2026

   On Autocracy with Anne Applebaum

   Questions, suggestions, or feedback? Send us a message! Welcome to the Where Shall We Meet podcast. Our guest this week is Anne Applebaum, who is a staff writer at The Atlantic and a senior fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. She is a historian of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. She also hosts The Atlantic's podcast Autocracy in America with Peter Pomerantsev. For the past decade she has written about the dismantling of liberal democracy, and about the people i...

3. 

   23 Sept 2026

   On Prophecy with Carissa Veliz

   Questions, suggestions, or feedback? Send us a message! Welcome to the Where Shall We Meet podcast. Our guest this week is Carissa Véliz, who is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the Institute for Ethics in AI and Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy at Hertford College, Oxford University. She works on privacy, digital ethics and the ethics of AI, and her new book argues that AI has become the new Oracle of Delphi. That book is Prophecy: Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future. It is a hi...

Who has been a guest on Where Shall We Meet

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Paul Bennett
• Carine Minne
• Anil Seth

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

14,405

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

19 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

68 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 38 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

25

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

51

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