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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 2366
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
The Edition: Alt reich - is Germany's far right about to go mainstream?
This week: Alt reich. The Spectator’s Lisa Haseldine asks if Germany’s far right is about to go mainstream, ahead of regional elections this weekend. Lisa joined the podcast, alongside the historian …
00:45:27 |
Thu 29 Aug 2024
Book Club: Ian Sansom, from the archives
The Book Club has taken a short summer break and will return in September. Until then, and ahead of the 85th anniversary of the start of World War Two, here’s an episode from the archives with the au…
00:24:47 |
Wed 28 Aug 2024
Table Talk: Will Beckett
Will Beckett, CEO of Hawksmoor, founded the steakhouse chain with his childhood best friend Huw Gott in 2006. It has since expanded to 13 locations, including three outside the UK, and consistently b…
00:29:04 |
Tue 27 Aug 2024
Americano: Mearsheimer on Ukraine, Israel-Gaza and the US election
Professor John Mearsheimer joins Freddy Gray to discuss the wars in Ukraine and in Gaza, and the influence of both on the US election. The Israel-Gaza conflict has led to internal divisions within th…
00:43:33 |
Mon 26 Aug 2024
Spectator Out Loud: William Cash, Marcus Nevitt, Nina Power, Christopher Howse and Olivia Potts
On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: William Cash reveals the dark side of Hollywood assistants (1:12); Marcus Nevitt reviews Ronald Hutton’s new book on Oliver Cromwell (7:57); Nina Power visits the M…
00:30:44 |
Sat 24 Aug 2024
Americano: Live from the DNC
The Americano podcast has been in Chicago this week for the Democratic National Convention, as Kamala Harris is officially nominated to be their presidential candidate. Has the convention gone to pla…
00:42:38 |
Fri 23 Aug 2024
The Edition: All hail Harris!
This week: All hail Harris! As the Democratic National Convention approaches its climax, The Spectator’s deputy editor Freddy Gray explores vice president Kamala Harris’s remarkable rise to the top o…
00:35:47 |
Thu 22 Aug 2024
Book Club: Carlo Rovelli, from the archives
The Book Club has taken a short summer break and will return in September with new episodes. Until then, here’s an episode from the archives with the theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli.
Carlo joined …
Carlo joined …
00:48:28 |
Wed 21 Aug 2024
Americano: Douglas Murray on free speech in the UK and US
Douglas Murray joins Freddy Gray on the Americano podcast to discuss free speech in Britain following the sentences handed down after the riots, how different free speech is in America, and how Dougl…
00:29:07 |
Tue 20 Aug 2024
Chinese Whispers: what would a second Trump presidency bring for China?
Trump is tough on China, but what really motivates his hawkishness? Does he care at all about China's human rights abuses? Or is he fundamentally a foreign policy disentangler, hoping to rein back Am…
00:30:23 |
Mon 19 Aug 2024
Women With Balls: Kemi Badenoch, from the archives
Women with Balls has taken a summer break and will be back in September with a new series. Until then, here's an episode from the archives, with current Tory leadership hopeful Kemi Badenoch MP.
Widel…
Widel…
00:39:11 |
Sun 18 Aug 2024
Spectator Out Loud: Richard Madeley, Cindy Yu, Lara Prendergast, Pen Vogler and James Delingpole
On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Richard Madeley reads his diary for the week (1:01); Cindy Yu explores the growing trend for all things nostalgic in China (6:00); Lara Prendergast declares that ba…
00:29:48 |
Sat 17 Aug 2024
Americano: is Elon Musk a great man of history?
Freddy Gray sits down with journalist and Spectator author Ed West who writes the Substack Wrong Side of History and Richard Hanania who writes the Richard Hanania Newsletter to discuss Elon Musk's i…
00:34:09 |
Fri 16 Aug 2024
The Edition: Power play
This week: Power play. The Spectator’s Svitlana Morenets writes the cover article in this week’s magazine exploring Zelensky’s plan for his Russian conquests. What’s his aim? And how could Putin resp…
00:40:12 |
Thu 15 Aug 2024
Book Club: Adam Higginbotham
Sam's guest in this week's Book Club podcast is Adam Higginbotham, whose new book Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space describes the 1986 space shuttle disaster that …
00:49:47 |
Wed 14 Aug 2024
Table Talk: Romy Gill
Romy Gill is a British-Indian chef, food-writer and broadcaster who was awarded an MBE in 2016 for her services to hospitality. She is the author of three cookbooks including her newest, Romy Gill's …
00:31:37 |
Tue 13 Aug 2024
Spectator Out Loud: Gus Carter, Paul Wood, Jonathan Aitken, Laura Gascoigne and Flora Watkins
This week: Gus Carter reports from Rotherham (01:10), Paul Wood asks whether anything can stop full-scale conflict in the Middle East (05:55), Jonathan Aitken takes us inside Nixon's resignation melo…
00:35:07 |
Sat 10 Aug 2024
The Edition: why Britain riots
This week: The Spectator’s Gus Carter was in Rotherham and Birmingham in the days after the riots. Locals tell Gus that ‘violent disorder isn’t acceptable but people from down south don’t know what i…
00:33:00 |
Thu 08 Aug 2024
The Book Club: Nathan Thrall
My guest in this week's Book Club podcast is Nathan Thrall, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning book A Day In The Life of Abed Salama – which uses the story of a terrible bus crash in the West Bank …
00:35:19 |
Wed 07 Aug 2024
Chinese Whispers: how oil became the latest food scandal
The Chinese middle class can now be very discerning about the food that they eat, and who can blame them? In the last twenty years, there seems to have been a steady stream of food safety and hygiene…
00:52:55 |
Mon 05 Aug 2024
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