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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 2366
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
Women With Balls: Daisy Cooper
Daisy Cooper has been a stalwart of the Liberal Democrats for over a decade. From councillor to MP, she has served as the deputy leader of the party since 2020. First elected to parliament in 2019, s…
00:34:24 |
Fri 25 Oct 2024
The Edition: Cambridge in crisis, Trump’s wicked humour & the beauty of AI ceramics
This week: Decline and Fall – how our greatest universities are betraying students.
Our greatest universities are betraying students, writes David Butterfield, who has just resigned from teaching Clas…
Our greatest universities are betraying students, writes David Butterfield, who has just resigned from teaching Clas…
00:52:33 |
Thu 24 Oct 2024
Americano: is Labour interfering in the US election?
Keir Starmer can’t even fly to Samoa without another international British embarrassment breaking out. The latest is an angry accusation from Donald Trump’s campaign that Labour is committing the cri…
00:15:52 |
Wed 23 Oct 2024
The Book Club: Rachel Clarke
My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is Rachel Clarke, author of the Baillie Gifford longlisted new book The Story of a Heart. Rachel tells me how she came so intimately to tell the story of 9-y…
00:47:45 |
Wed 23 Oct 2024
Table Talk: Tim Spector
Tim Spector is a leading professor of genetic epidemiology at King’s College London and a renowned expert in nutrition, gut health, and the microbiome. He is the founder of the Zoe Project, which foc…
00:26:28 |
Tue 22 Oct 2024
AI, gene therapy and challenges of the NHS – Britain's health Innovators of the Year
The Spectator Economic Innovator of the Year Awards, in partnership with Rathbones, celebrate the passion and creativity of British entrepreneurs. From hundreds of entries we have narrowed down to so…
00:28:49 |
Mon 21 Oct 2024
Spectator Out Loud: Richard Dawkins, Nicholas Farrell, Mary Wakefield, Lisa Hilton and Philip Hensher
On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Richard Dawkins reads his diary for the week (1:21); Nicholas Farrell argues that Italy is showing the EU the way on migration (6:33); Mary Wakefield reflects on th…
00:32:57 |
Sun 20 Oct 2024
Coffee House Shots: should bishops be booted out of the Lords?
The House of Lords contains 26 Church of England archbishops and bishops who possess an automatic right to sit and vote in the House, as established by ancient usage and by statute. But for how much …
00:17:34 |
Sat 19 Oct 2024
Holy Smoke: The Pope announces 21 new cardinals – is he trying to pack the conclave?
This month Pope Francis announced that he’s creating 21 cardinals, and once again his list includes unexpected names that will baffle commentators who assume that he’s determined to stack the next co…
00:25:33 |
Fri 18 Oct 2024
The Edition: Reeves's gambit, a debate on assisted dying & queer life in postwar Britain
This week: the Chancellor’s Budget dilemma.
‘As a former championship chess player, Rachel Reeves must know that the first few moves can be some of the most important of the game,’ writes Rupert Harri…
‘As a former championship chess player, Rachel Reeves must know that the first few moves can be some of the most important of the game,’ writes Rupert Harri…
00:52:07 |
Thu 17 Oct 2024
Americano: could the Catholic vote decide the US election?
Polling suggests that the Catholic vote helped Trump win in 2016 and helped Biden win in 2020. Biden is also the most church-going president by far. With issues like immigration and abortion high on …
00:27:00 |
Thu 17 Oct 2024
Book Club: Sue Prideaux
In this week's Book Club podcast Sam Leith’s guest is the great Sue Prideaux who, after her prize-winning biographies of Nietzsche, Munch and Strindberg, has turned her attention to Gauguin in Wild T…
00:41:30 |
Wed 16 Oct 2024
Americano: which campaign has the better ground game?
Republican strategist, and friend of Americano, Luke Thompson joins Freddy Gray to talk about the ground game of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. From postal voting, to party registration, to machine …
00:26:59 |
Tue 15 Oct 2024
Chinese Whispers: tycoon Desmond Shum on corruption, power and his wife’s disappearance
** On October 19, Cindy Yu and a panel of special guests will be recording a live Chinese Whispers at London's Battle of Ideas festival, talking the latest on China’s economic slowdown and asking – w…
00:43:28 |
Mon 14 Oct 2024
Women With Balls: Tracy-Ann Oberman
Actress and writer Tracy-Ann Oberman is well known for her roles across theatre, radio and television, including Dr Who, Friday Night Dinner, It’s a Sin and, of course, EastEnders. Most recently, she…
00:30:31 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Spectator Out Loud: Michael Gove, Max Jeffery, Christopher Howse, Robert Jackman and Mark Mason
On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: new Editor Michael Gove discusses his plans for The Spectator (1:08); Max Jeffery heads to Crawley to meet some of the Chagossians based there (5:44); Christopher H…
00:30:32 |
Sat 12 Oct 2024
Americano: should a true populist not support Trump?
Journalist, historian and friend of Americano Thomas Frank joins Freddy Gray to dissect the state of American politics. Author of books, including the famed What's the matter with Kansas? How conserv…
00:48:25 |
Fri 11 Oct 2024
The Edition: Labour’s China pivot, Yvette Cooper’s extremism crackdown & the ladies who punch
Successive governments have struggled with how to deal with China, balancing them as a geopolitical rival yet necessary trade partner. Recent moves from Labour have sent mixed signals, from the free …
00:48:09 |
Thu 10 Oct 2024
The Book Club: Alan Johnson
My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is the former Home Secretary Alan Johnson, who joins me to talk about his new biography of Harold Wilson. He tells me about Wilson’s rocket-powered rise to t…
00:34:24 |
Wed 09 Oct 2024
Table Talk: Claire Dinhut
Claire Dinhut is known to thousands on social media as CondimentClaire. Raised in a European household in Los Angeles, her upbringing and her background studying history have influenced her other pas…
00:26:08 |
Tue 08 Oct 2024
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