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Foreign Policy · 240 episodes with transcripts

Each week, Foreign Policy Live will feature a substantive conversation on world affairs. Host and FP editor in chief Ravi Agrawal will be joined by leading foreign-policy thinkers and practitioners to analyze a key issue in global politics, from the U.S.-China relationship to conflict and diplomacy.

Spoken has transcripts of 240 Foreign Policy Live episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from October 15, 2026.

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curl -s -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
  https://spoken.md/podcasts/1034003458/episodes \
  | jq -r '.episodes[] | "\(.id) \(.title)"' \
  | while IFS=' ' read -r id title; do
      slug=$(echo "$title" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | tr -cs 'a-z0-9' '-' | sed 's/-*$//')
      [ -f "${id}-${slug}.md" ] && continue
      curl -sf -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
        -o "${id}-${slug}.md" \
        https://spoken.md/transcripts/$id || rm -f "${id}-${slug}.md"
      sleep 0.34
    done

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Latest Foreign Policy Live transcripts

Why Spain Stands Up to Trump

October 15, 2026

SPEAKER_1 (0:01)

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Ravi Agrawal (0:31)

Hi, I'm Ravi Agrawal, Foreign Policy's Editor-in-Chief. This is FP Live.

Countries around the world have adopted different ways of dealing with US President Donald Trump. Some choose flattery. Some opt to fly under the radar. Spain has chosen frank opposition. Consider how Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez bluntly said no to war when Trump asked to use a Spanish base for attacks on Iran…

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