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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 2368
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
Americano: Will Trump's election be 'too big to rig'?
For this Super Tuesday discussion, Sarah Elliot – head of the Special Relationship Unit at the Legatum Institute joins Freddy Gray to chat about the predicted Trump-Biden victory; what Nikki Haley wi…
00:33:43 |
Thu 07 Mar 2024
The Book Club: Peter Pomerantsev
My guest on this week's Book Club podcast is Peter Pomerantsev. Peter's new book How To Win An Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler tells the story of Sefton Delmer, the great geniu…
00:43:43 |
Wed 06 Mar 2024
Chinese Whispers: how China's rural deprivation curbs its success
Too often our stories about China are dictated by the urban experience, probably because journalists inside and outside of China are often based in the big cities; Beijing specifically. Those who liv…
00:41:13 |
Mon 04 Mar 2024
Americano: Will Tech decide the US election?
Freddy talks to political technologist Eric Wilson about the role technology and media will play in the 2024 US election. They cover the differences in strategy between the Democrats and the Republic…
00:24:57 |
Sun 03 Mar 2024
Spectator Out Loud: Lukas Degutis, Ysenda Maxtone Graham, Richard Bratby and Toby Young
On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Lukas Degutis reports from Riga, exploring Latvia’s policy of expelling Russian speakers (01:16); Ysenda Maxtone Graham explains why she believes applause has no pl…
00:26:49 |
Sat 02 Mar 2024
Women With Balls: Thangam Debbonaire
Thangam Debbonaire was born in Peterborough to an Indian father and English mother. She has been an MP since 2015 but before Parliament spent over 25 years working to end domestic violence. She serve…
00:35:25 |
Fri 01 Mar 2024
The Edition: plan Bibi
Welcome to a slightly new format for the Edition podcast! Each week we will be talking about the magazine – as per usual – but trying to give a little more insight into the process behind putting The…
00:48:26 |
Thu 29 Feb 2024
The Book Club: Colum McCann
My guest on this week's Book Club podcast is the award-winning novelist Colum McCann, whose new book takes him out of the territory of fiction and into something slightly different. American Mother i…
00:34:33 |
Wed 28 Feb 2024
Americano: A Donald Trump debate
In this special episode of Americano, The Spectator's editor Fraser Nelson explores Trump's candidacy with political commentator Deroy Murdock, and The Spectator's economics editor Kate Andrews.
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00:27:50 |
Wed 28 Feb 2024
Americano: are pollsters underestimating Joe Biden?
Freddy Gray speaks to James Kanagasooriam who is the chief research officer at Focal Data about the state of the polls. They discuss why vaccines have become a polarising topic for this election; why…
00:30:58 |
Mon 26 Feb 2024
Ageing well: becoming a world leader in tackling dementia and Alzheimer’s
With cases of neurodegenerative conditions rising in the UK, it's crucial to re-examine how we tackle these diseases. The Spectator's assistant editor Isabel Hardman speaks to Debbie Abrahams MP (co-…
00:45:30 |
Mon 26 Feb 2024
Holy Smoke: How much did Pope Francis know about Fr Marko Rupnik?
At a press conference in Rome last week, an ex-nun claiming to have suffered ritual sex abuse at the hands of Fr Marko Rupnik turned the heat on Pope Francis. How much did he know about the stomach-t…
00:16:16 |
Mon 26 Feb 2024
Action Men: why women don’t need ‘allies’ fighting male violence – Julie Bindel & Jackson Katz
Julie Bindel speaks to anti-sexist campaigner and author Jackson Katz, who has been part of a growing movement of men working to promote gender equality. On the podcast, Julie and Jackson discuss the…
00:38:25 |
Sat 24 Feb 2024
Spectator Out Loud: Max Jeffery, Lisa Haseldine, Christopher Howse, Philip Hensher and Calvin Po
This week: Max Jeffery writes from Blackpool where he says you can see the welfare crisis at its worst (01:29); Lisa Haseldine reads her interview with the wife of Vladimir Kara-Murza, whose husband …
00:43:50 |
Sat 24 Feb 2024
Americano: human rights vs democracy
Freddy speaks to journalist and author of The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties, Chris Caldwell, about the human rights movement. Can America’s influence be considered imperial? Is how we…
00:20:05 |
Fri 23 Feb 2024
The Edition: why Britain stopped working
Welcome to a slightly new format for the Edition podcast! Each week we will be talking about the magazine – as per usual – but trying to give a little more insight into the process behind putting The…
00:50:22 |
Thu 22 Feb 2024
The Book Club: Tom Chatfield
My guest on this week's Book Club podcast is Tom Chatfield, whose new book is Wise Animals: How Technology Has Made Us What We Are. He tells me what we get wrong about technology, what Douglas Adams …
00:47:03 |
Wed 21 Feb 2024
Americano: should Julian Assange be extradited to America?
Freddy speaks to philosopher Slavoj Zizek ahead of what we understand will be Julian Assange's final court appeal against extradition back to the US. The WikiLeaks founder has been wanted by the US a…
00:27:22 |
Wed 21 Feb 2024
Chinese Whispers: what the Messi row reveals about Chinese football
The Argentinian football star Lionel Messi has been trending on Weibo – and unfortunately, not for a good reason. It all started when Messi sat out a match in Hong Kong earlier this month. His reason…
00:39:56 |
Mon 19 Feb 2024
Spectator Out Loud: Harry Mount, Lara Prendergast, Catriona Olding, Owen Matthews and Jeremy Hildreth
On this week's Spectator Out Loud, Harry Mount reads his diary, in which he recounts a legendary face-off between Barry Humphries and John Lennon (00:45); Lara Prendergast gives her tips for male bea…
00:29:24 |
Sat 17 Feb 2024
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