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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 2368
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
Table Talk: Gennaro Contaldo
Gennaro Contaldo is an Italian chef, cookbook author and television presenter. He is also known as Jamie Oliver's mentor and Antonio Carluccio's travel partner on Two Greedy Italians. His latest cook…
00:24:01 |
Tue 26 Mar 2024
Americano: why do Trump’s enemies always overreach?
Freddy Gray speaks to editor-at-large of the Wall Street Journal Gerry Baker about whether the media’s wrong reporting of Trump’s ‘bloodshed’ comments have played to his advantage; why America has lo…
00:36:49 |
Mon 25 Mar 2024
Americano: is America in decline?
Freddy Gray speaks to political science researcher Richard Hanania about his (relative) optimism regarding the future of America, and how Sydney Sweeney might have 'ended wokeness'.
Hosted on Acast…
00:27:59 |
Sun 24 Mar 2024
Spectator Out Loud: Richard Madeley, Kate Andrews, Lloyd Evans, Sam McPhail and Graeme Thomson
This week: Richard Madeley reads his diary (01:06), Kate Andrews describes how Kate-gate gripped America (06:18), Lloyd Evans warns against meddling with Shakespeare (11:38), Sam McPhail details how …
00:35:02 |
Sat 23 Mar 2024
Americano: Trump vs luxury beliefs
Freddy speaks to Rob Henderson, author of Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, in which he coins the term 'luxury beliefs'. These are certain beliefs held by a section of the …
00:28:52 |
Fri 22 Mar 2024
The Edition: Scotland’s new Hate Crime Act is fraught with danger
On the podcast: Scotland’s new hate crime law; the man who could be France’s next PM; and why do directors meddle with Shakespeare?
First up: Scotland is smothering free speech.
Scotland is getting a …
First up: Scotland is smothering free speech.
Scotland is getting a …
00:50:50 |
Thu 21 Mar 2024
The Book Club: Joel Morris
My guest in this week's Book Club is Joel Morris, an award-winning comedy writer whose credits run from co-creating Philomena Cunk to writing gags for Viz and punching up the script for Paddington 2.…
00:50:18 |
Wed 20 Mar 2024
Americano: are we suffering from 'Trump outrage fatigue'?
Freddy Gray talks to political science lecturer Damon Linker about the latest developments in the Biden and Trump campaigns.
Why did Biden’s fiery State of the Union Address provide him no uptick in …
Why did Biden’s fiery State of the Union Address provide him no uptick in …
00:32:54 |
Tue 19 Mar 2024
Chinese Whispers: Li Ziqi and the phenomenon of the rural influencer
In the last episode, I discussed Chinese rural lives with Professor Scott Rozelle. One point he made which particularly stuck with me was the dying out of farming as an occuption – he'd said that mos…
00:22:30 |
Mon 18 Mar 2024
Americano: will America ban TikTok?
Freddy Gray speaks to Matt McDonald, Spectator World's managing editor about the the vote to force a sale of TikTok to a US company, and foreign lobbying for and against the move in Washington.
Hos…
00:19:53 |
Sun 17 Mar 2024
Spectator Out Loud: William Moore, Sean Thomas, Matt Ridley, Lionel Shriver and Kate Andrews
On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: William Moore questions if the Church of England is about the apologise for Christianity (1:19); Sean Thomas recounts his experience taking ayahuasca in Colombia (8…
00:41:03 |
Sat 16 Mar 2024
Holy Smoke: how the Church of England patronises African Christians
In this episode of Holy Smoke, I'm joined by The Spectator's features editor William Moore, who asks in this week's issue of the magazine whether the Church of England is 'apologising for Christianit…
00:17:03 |
Fri 15 Mar 2024
Women With Balls: it's time to talk about your pension
When it comes to retirement, working out how much you will need to set aside can seem like a monumental task. The average person has between 8 to 10 jobs over their lifetime. People are living longer…
00:31:42 |
Fri 15 Mar 2024
The Edition: will the Red Wall revolt split the right?
On the podcast this week: is Rishi ready for a Red Wall rebellion?
Lee Anderson’s defection to Reform is an indication of the final collapse of the Tories’ 2019 electoral coalition and the new split …
Lee Anderson’s defection to Reform is an indication of the final collapse of the Tories’ 2019 electoral coalition and the new split …
00:47:36 |
Thu 14 Mar 2024
Americano: power, politics and the grid
Freddy Gray speaks to author Robert Bryce whose recent docuseries Power Politics & The Grid explores the growing vulnerabilities of America's electric grid. On the podcast they talk about Trump vs Bi…
00:26:53 |
Wed 13 Mar 2024
The Book Club: Lauren Oyler
This week's Book Club podcast sees me speaking to the critic and novelist Lauren Oyler about her first collection of essays, No Judgment: On Being Critical. Lauren and I talked about the freedoms and…
00:40:34 |
Wed 13 Mar 2024
Table Talk: Alex Jackson
Alex Jackson is the founder of Sardine and currently head chef at Noble Rot, Soho. His cookbook Frontières: the food of France's borderlands is available now.
On the podcast, he tells Lara and Liv wh…
On the podcast, he tells Lara and Liv wh…
00:29:11 |
Tue 12 Mar 2024
Spectator Out Loud: Mary Wakefield, Hannah Tomes, Cosmo Landesman
On this episode of Spectator Out Loud, Mary Wakefield has a solution to smartphone addition (00:28), Hannah Tomes reviews the latest production of King Lear (07:27) and Cosmo Landesman gets high (11:…
00:17:15 |
Sat 09 Mar 2024
Americano: How will RFK Junior change the 2024 election?
Freddy Gray is joined by John Rick MacArthur, president and publisher of Harper's Magazine to discuss Robert F. Kennedy junior and his candidacy in the presidential election.
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00:42:03 |
Fri 08 Mar 2024
The Edition: what to expect from a second Trump term
On the podcast: what would Trump’s second term look like?
Vengeance is a lifelong theme of Donald Trump’s, writes Freddy Gray in this week’s cover story – and this year’s presidential election could …
Vengeance is a lifelong theme of Donald Trump’s, writes Freddy Gray in this week’s cover story – and this year’s presidential election could …
00:47:20 |
Thu 07 Mar 2024
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