{"podcast":{"title":"Inside Geneva","slug":"inside-geneva-404417","podcast_index_feed_id":404417,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/915097.rss","website_url":"https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/inside-geneva-podcast","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/jp9ho0hh670fuxwfhvb8zfqnjwv5?.jpg","author":"SWI swissinfo.ch","episode_count":181,"summary":"Inside Geneva is a podcast about global politics, humanitarian issues, and international aid, hosted by journalist Imogen Foulkes. It is produced by SWI swissinfo.ch, a multilingual international public service media company from Switzerland.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-07T16:21:23.329376+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/inside-geneva-404417"},"episode":{"title":"What’s the point of foreign aid?","slug":"what-s-the-point-of-foreign-aid","published_at":"2026-06-09T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/inside-geneva-404417/what-s-the-point-of-foreign-aid","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/inside-geneva-404417","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/915097/episodes/19310698-what-s-the-point-of-foreign-aid.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/915097/episodes/19310698-what-s-the-point-of-foreign-aid.mp3","summary":"Send us Fan Mail On our Inside Geneva podcast this week, we host a debate on a key question: what’s the point of foreign aid? “What’s the point of mobilising taxpayers’ money and sending it to faraway countries to assist vulnerable people? And how do you sell that to your own taxpayers?” says Gilles Carbonnier, former Vice-President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). There are more conflicts and greater needs, yet donor countries want to spend less. “What’s the point of m...","meta_description":"Send us Fan Mail On our Inside Geneva podcast this week, we host a debate on a key question: what’s the point of foreign aid? “What’s the point of mobilis…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3567,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/inside-geneva-404417/episodes/what-s-the-point-of-foreign-aid/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/inside-geneva-404417/what-s-the-point-of-foreign-aid.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}