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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 2366
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
Eylon Levy: is the world still with Israel?
On the anniversary of the October 7th attacks on Israel by Hamas, former Israeli government spokesperson Eylon Levy joins Freddy Gray to discuss everything that has happened since. Does the world sti…
00:27:01 |
Mon 07 Oct 2024
Holy Smoke: could religious voters in the swing states decide the US election?
The US presidential election looks as if it’s coming down to the wire in a handful of battleground states. Neither Kamala Harris nor Donald Trump has established a clear lead, and that raises the que…
00:30:03 |
Sun 06 Oct 2024
Spectator Out Loud: Fraser Nelson, Cindy Yu, Mary Wakefield, Anthony Sattin, and Toby Young
On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Fraser Nelson signs off for the last time (1:30); Cindy Yu explores growing hostility in China to the Japanese (7:44); Mary Wakefield examines the dark truth behind…
00:30:45 |
Sat 05 Oct 2024
Americano: Could America go to war with Iran?
Israel has launched what it has described as "limited, localised and targeted ground raids" in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah’s deputy leader says they’re ready for a ground offensive. It comes as more …
00:41:16 |
Fri 04 Oct 2024
The Edition: Israel's revenge, farewell Fraser & the demise of invitations
This week: Israel’s revenge and Iran’s humiliation.
As the anniversary of the October 7th attacks by Hamas approaches, the crisis in the Middle East has only widened. Israel has sent troops into south…
As the anniversary of the October 7th attacks by Hamas approaches, the crisis in the Middle East has only widened. Israel has sent troops into south…
00:37:02 |
Thu 03 Oct 2024
The Book Club: Malcolm Gladwell
My guest in this week's Book Club podcast is Malcolm Gladwell. Twenty-five years after he published The Tipping Point, Malcolm returns to the subject of his first book in Revenge of the Tipping Point…
00:39:02 |
Wed 02 Oct 2024
Coffee House Shots live: the struggle for the future of conservatism
The mood at Conservative conference has been surprisingly jubilant considering the turmoil that the party finds itself in. Labour's misfortunes may have contributed to this, but there seems to be a g…
00:39:13 |
Tue 01 Oct 2024
Americano: what happens if the election is a tie?
America has a peculiar way of deciding national elections. Instead of a cumulative national vote, the president and vice president are determined by fifty separate state elections. The top ticket in …
00:31:27 |
Tue 01 Oct 2024
Chinese Whispers: will AI be the next arms race?
** 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…
00:48:00 |
Mon 30 Sep 2024
Americano: could Pennsylvania decide the US election?
Freddy Gray is joined by Oliver Bateman, historian and journalist based in Pittsburgh. They discuss how important Pennsylvania will be during the election, the mail-in ballot system, and the state of…
00:30:14 |
Sun 29 Sep 2024
Spectator Out Loud: Rachel Johnson, James Heale, Paul Wood, Rowan Pelling and Graeme Thomson
On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Rachel Johnson reads her diary for the week (1:19); James Heale analyses the true value of Labour peer Lord Alli (6:58); Paul Wood questions if Israel is trying to …
00:34:01 |
Sat 28 Sep 2024
Women With Balls: Bridget Phillipson, live at Labour conference
Labour’s Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson returns to Women With Balls in a special live edition of the podcast, recorded at Labour Party conference. The MP for Houghton and Sunderland South sin…
00:32:48 |
Fri 27 Sep 2024
The Edition: Tory wars, the reality of trail hunting & is Sally Rooney-mania over?
This week: who’s on top in the Conservative leadership race?
That’s the question Katy Balls asks in the magazine this week as she looks ahead to the Conservative Party conference. Each Tory hopeful wi…
That’s the question Katy Balls asks in the magazine this week as she looks ahead to the Conservative Party conference. Each Tory hopeful wi…
00:42:30 |
Thu 26 Sep 2024
The Book Club: Alan Garner
My guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is Alan Garner whose new book of essays and poems is called Powsels and Thrums: A Tapestry of a Creative Life. Alan tells me about landscape and writing, sci…
00:40:11 |
Wed 25 Sep 2024
Table Talk: Charlie Bigham
Charlie Bigham founded his eponymous ready to cook meals over 25 years ago. Having left a career as a management consultant, his company has gone on to report annual sales in the tens of millions, wi…
00:30:06 |
Tue 24 Sep 2024
Americano: Are Big Tech monopolies the biggest threat to democracy?
A handful of Big Tech companies seem to run our lives, and there's a good argument that they can be considered monopolies within their industries. In a landmark ruling recently, a US judge found that…
00:37:44 |
Mon 23 Sep 2024
Holy Smoke: How pistols in St Paul’s Cathedral shaped the science of sound
In the winter of 1951 shots from a Colt revolver rang out in St Paul’s Cathedral in an experiment designed to solve the mystery of how architecture shapes sound. In this episode of Holy Smoke, Damian…
00:17:16 |
Sun 22 Sep 2024
Spectator Out Loud: Paul Wood, Ross Clark, Andrew Lycett, Laura Gascoigne and Henry Jeffreys
On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: as Lebanon reels from the exploding pagers, Paul Wood wonders what’s next for Israel and Hezbollah (1:24); Ross Clark examines Ireland’s low-tax project, following …
00:32:09 |
Sat 21 Sep 2024
The Book Club: Lindsey Hilsum
My guest on this week's Book Club podcast is Channel 4's international editor Lindsey Hilsum. In her new book I Brought The War With Me: Stories and Poems from the Front Line Lindsey intersperses her…
00:42:47 |
Fri 20 Sep 2024
The Edition: Farage's plan, the ethics of euthanasia & Xi's football failure
This week: Nigel’s next target. What’s Reform UK’s plan to take on Labour? Reform UK surpassed expectations at the general election to win 5 MPs. This includes James McMurdock, who Katy interviews fo…
00:44:55 |
Thu 19 Sep 2024
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