Best of the Spectator
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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 2368
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
The Spectator Podcast: the strange triumph of eco-Toryism
This week, the government commits to a green target of net zero emissions by 2050 – but how costly will meeting it be (00:25)? And stateside, with the Mueller Report showing the extent of Trump’s med…
00:31:10 |
Thu 13 Jun 2019
Spectator Books: does tripping balls tell us anything profound about human consciousness?
This week’s books podcast promises to be a trip. Sam is joined by Mike Jay to talk about the history of mescaline — a psychedelic drug whose influence goes from the earliest South American civilisati…
00:28:41 |
Wed 12 Jun 2019
Podcast Special: what is the future of British airpower?
The UK has committed to its biggest defence project in a generation: the development of a sixth-generation fighter jet. The government says the project, dubbed Team Tempest, will secure Britain’s sta…
00:27:34 |
Tue 11 Jun 2019
Coffee House Shots: Raab, Hancock, Hunt, and Gove launch their leadership campaigns
With Isabel Hardman and Katy Balls.
Presented by Fraser Nelson.
Coffee House Shots is a series of podcasts on British politics from the Spectator's political team and special guests. Brought to you dai…
Presented by Fraser Nelson.
Coffee House Shots is a series of podcasts on British politics from the Spectator's political team and special guests. Brought to you dai…
00:18:48 |
Mon 10 Jun 2019
Coffee House Shots: 'I backed Gove, but here's why I back Boris now' - Robert Jenrick
With Robert Jenrick, Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, and Fraser Nelson.
Presented by Katy Balls.
Presented by Katy Balls.
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00:16:48 |
Sat 08 Jun 2019
Podcast Special: can Britain achieve net zero emissions by 2050?
It’s obvious that we need to take action to slow down climate change, but given such a daunting task – it’s only saving the entire world... – where does one even start?
The Climate Change Committee m…
00:30:04 |
Fri 07 Jun 2019
The Spectator Podcast: what is awaiting the new prime minister?
What is the unfinished business that Theresa May leaves for the next prime minister (00:30)? Plus, why everyone is fascist or Nazi these days (10:55)? And last, who was Alma Mahler, the woman who ent…
00:33:30 |
Thu 06 Jun 2019
LIVE: Michael Gove in conversation with Fraser Nelson
The starting gun has been fired on the Tory leadership contest. With a live audience in London, Fraser Nelson interviews one of the frontrunners: Michael Gove.
What is his plan to deliver Brexit? Can …
01:20:21 |
Thu 06 Jun 2019
Spectator Books: Chaucer's European roots
In this week’s books podcast we're talking about why the Father of English Poetry, Geoffrey Chaucer, at least half belongs in a French, Latin and Italian tradition. Marion Turner’s magnificently scho…
00:35:52 |
Wed 05 Jun 2019
Americano: Trump's state visit - banquets, protests, and pressers
With Sarah Elliott, the Chair of Republicans Overseas.
Presented by Freddy Gray.
Americano is a series of in-depth discussions on American politics with the best pundits stateside. Presented by Freddy …
Presented by Freddy Gray.
Americano is a series of in-depth discussions on American politics with the best pundits stateside. Presented by Freddy …
00:21:37 |
Tue 04 Jun 2019
Table Talk: from Chelsea Flower Show
Jo Thompson is a prize-winning garden designer, whose upcoming book 'Rhubarb Rhubarb' is a correspondence between a hopeless gardener and a hopeful cook, taking a look at both gardening and cooking. …
00:12:05 |
Mon 03 Jun 2019
Coffee House Shots: Rory Stewart - 'I can solve Brexit in five weeks'
Rory Stewart speaks to James Kirkup, Spectator contributor and Director of the Social Market Foundation, about why he's a conservative, the way to solve Brexit, and his greatest political hero, Nativ…
00:26:50 |
Sat 01 Jun 2019
Women With Balls: Claire Fox
Claire Fox, left libertarian thinker, director and founder of the Academy of Ideas, and panellist on the Moral Maze, was this week elected as an MEP for the Brexit Party. In this episode of Women Wit…
00:41:42 |
Fri 31 May 2019
The Spectator Podcast: Tory scrum
This week, as the Tory leadership contest kicks off, who has the best shot at getting to the final two (00:40)? And with Carrie Symonds, Boris’s new partner, neatening him up, we also ask - what is t…
00:35:46 |
Thu 30 May 2019
Spectator Books: science fiction from Jim Al-Khalili
In this week’s books podcast Sam is joined by the physicist Jim Al-Khalili (host of Radio Four’s The Life Scientific) to talk about his first novel, a science-fiction thriller called Sunfall. In it, …
00:26:19 |
Wed 29 May 2019
Coffee House Shots: the winners and losers of the European Parliament Elections
With Katy Balls and Fraser Nelson.
Presented by Cindy Yu.
Coffee House Shots is a series of podcasts on British politics from the Spectator's political team and special guests. Brought to you daily, cl…
Presented by Cindy Yu.
Coffee House Shots is a series of podcasts on British politics from the Spectator's political team and special guests. Brought to you daily, cl…
00:16:32 |
Mon 27 May 2019
Coffee House Shots: May resigns - what next?
With James Forsyth and Katy Balls.
Presented by Fraser Nelson.
Coffee House Shots is a series of podcasts on British politics from the Spectator's political team and special guests. Brought to you dail…
Presented by Fraser Nelson.
Coffee House Shots is a series of podcasts on British politics from the Spectator's political team and special guests. Brought to you dail…
00:14:46 |
Fri 24 May 2019
The Spectator Podcast: is Labour being picked apart by new rivals?
This week, as the country goes to the polls for European elections, we ask: has Brexit devoured the far left (00:40)? We also speak to an unlikely Boris supporter – Matthew Parris – on the merits of …
00:40:36 |
Thu 23 May 2019
Spectator Books: what makes Shakespeare special?
In this week’s Spectator Books, Sam's guest is Emma Smith, Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Hertford College, Oxford, who’s talking about her new book This Is Shakespeare. What is it that makes Sh…
00:38:18 |
Wed 22 May 2019
Table Talk: with Cressida Bonas
Actress Cressida Bonas talks to Lara and Livvy about growing up on shepherd's pie and pop-tarts, her trypophobia, and the best curry she's ever had.
Table Talk is a series of podcasts where Lara Prend…
00:18:45 |
Tue 21 May 2019
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