7 August 2020

Podcast: How to Be a Hero

The New Statesman’s World Review podcast with Emily Tamkin and Ido Vock.

Chinese students and their supporters hold a memorial for Dr Li Wenliang, who was the whistleblower of the Coronavirus, Covid-19, that originated in Wuhan, China and caused the doctors death in that city, outside the UCLA campus in Westwood, California, on February 15, 2020. - The death toll from the new coronavirus outbreak surpassed 1,600 in China on Sunday, with the first fatality reported outside Asia fuelling global concerns. (Photo by Mark RALSTON / AFP) (Photo by MARK RALSTON/AFP via Getty Images)

On this week’s episode, Emily Tamkin in Washington, DC, and Ido Vock in Tbilisi are joined from New York by the New Statesman‘s Sophie McBain to discuss her essay in ths New Statesman’s summer special issue about what heroism looks like in the age of Covid-19. Then, in You Ask Us, they take your questions on new forms of nationalism and what a Biden presidency would mean for American troops in the Middle East.

Send us your questions for future episodes via Twitter @statesmanworld and read Sophie’s long read on heroism here.

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