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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 2368
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
Americano: how is Joe Biden handling the Israel-Palestine crisis?
This week Freddy speaks to Dennis Ross, former Middle East coordinator under President Clinton and current Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy at Georgetown University. They discuss Biden's visit …
00:26:30 |
Fri 20 Oct 2023
Women With Balls: Kate Mosse
Kate Mosse is an international best-selling author who’s sold millions of books, translated into 38 different languages. She describes herself as a feminist and has worked hard to champion other fema…
00:35:15 |
Fri 20 Oct 2023
The Edition: new world disorder
On the podcast:
In The Spectator's cover piece Jonathan Spyer writes that as America's role in international security diminishes history is moving Iran’s way, with political Islam now commanding much …
In The Spectator's cover piece Jonathan Spyer writes that as America's role in international security diminishes history is moving Iran’s way, with political Islam now commanding much …
00:38:29 |
Thu 19 Oct 2023
The Book Club: Sandra Newman
My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is the novelist Sandra Newman, whose new book Julia retells George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four from Julia’s point of view. We discuss the spaces Orwell’s c…
00:38:24 |
Wed 18 Oct 2023
Chinese Whispers: 'The mask has slipped' – Tuvia Gering on China, Israel and Hamas
When China brokered a historic detente between Saudi Arabia and Iran earlier this year, it seemed that a new phase in world history – and certainly in Chinese foreign policy – had opened up. Instead …
00:43:04 |
Mon 16 Oct 2023
Spectator Out Loud: Paul Wood, James Heale and Robin Ashenden
This week Paul Wood delves into the complex background of the Middle East and asks if Iran might have been behind the Hamas attacks on Israel, and what might come next (01:11), James Heale ponders th…
00:23:38 |
Sat 14 Oct 2023
Americano: how are Democrats reacting to the war in Israel?
This week Freddy speaks to Andrew Cockburn, Washington editor of Harper's Magazine, about America's response to the developments in the Middle East. On the podcast they discuss the 'squad' (a section…
00:30:31 |
Fri 13 Oct 2023
The Edition: Unholy war
This week:
Paul Wood writes for The Spectator about the role that Iran potentially played in the Hamas attack on Israel over the weekend. He says that it is unlikely that the proscribed terrorist grou…
Paul Wood writes for The Spectator about the role that Iran potentially played in the Hamas attack on Israel over the weekend. He says that it is unlikely that the proscribed terrorist grou…
00:52:45 |
Thu 12 Oct 2023
The Book Club: Celebrating Watership Down
In this week's Book Club podcast, we're celebrating 50 years of a unique classic – Richard Adams's Watership Down – and its forthcoming adaptation in graphic novel form. I'm joined by Richard Adams's…
00:33:09 |
Wed 11 Oct 2023
Table Talk with Ewan Venters
Ewan Venters is the former chief executive of Fortnum & Mason and is now the CEO of Artfarm and Hauser & Wirth. Ewan is launching Artfarm’s first London venture combining food, drink and art which wi…
00:37:42 |
Tue 10 Oct 2023
What is driving the fraud explosion?
Fraud, by some margin, is the biggest crime in Britain. How did it spin out of control? Who is responsible? And who do we call to tackle and prevent the biggest menace in the digital era? The Spectat…
01:00:45 |
Mon 09 Oct 2023
Spectator Out Loud: Melissa Kite, Nigel Biggar and Matt Ridley
This week Melissa Kite mourns the Warwickshire countryside of her childhood, ripped up and torn apart for HS2, and describes how people like her parents have been treated by the doomed project (01:15…
00:23:32 |
Sat 07 Oct 2023
Americano: what's going on in the Republican party?
Freddy speaks to Roger Kimball, editor of the New Criterion and columnist for The Spectator's US edition. After Kevin McCarthy was ousted as speaker of the House this week, they discuss why the Repub…
00:22:55 |
Fri 06 Oct 2023
Women With Balls: Rosie Duffield
Rosie Duffield is the Labour MP for Canterbury and one of the most well-known faces in British politics. She first became an MP in 2017, a historic win which overturned 99 years of Tory rule. Since b…
00:40:33 |
Fri 06 Oct 2023
The Edition: Battle begins
This week:
Katy Balls writes in her cover piece that after Tory conference the battle lines have now been drawn between the two main parties. She says we should prepare for a 'presidential campaign' a…
Katy Balls writes in her cover piece that after Tory conference the battle lines have now been drawn between the two main parties. She says we should prepare for a 'presidential campaign' a…
00:39:44 |
Thu 05 Oct 2023
Marshall Matters: David Goodhart
This week Winston speaks to David Goodhart, author of The British Dream: Successes And Failures Of Post-War Immigration, which celebrates its 10 year anniversary this year. On the podcast they discus…
00:57:55 |
Wed 04 Oct 2023
The Book Club: Caspar Henderson
My guest in this week's Book Club podcast is Caspar Henderson, whose new book A Book of Noises: Notes on the Auraculous really is a journey into sound. He tells me why the music of the spheres – at l…
00:46:38 |
Wed 04 Oct 2023
Spectator Out Loud: Freddy Gray, Kate Andrews and Lloyd Evans
This week Freddy Gray takes a trip to Planet Biden and imagines what would happen if little green men invaded earth and found a big orange one back in the White House (01:15), Kate Andrews finds hers…
00:19:37 |
Sat 30 Sep 2023
Americano: who is winning America's class war?
This week Freddy is joined in The Spectator offices by regular contributor and fellow of urban studies at Chapman University, Joel Kotkin. They discuss Biden and Trump's respective attempts to burnis…
00:37:47 |
Fri 29 Sep 2023
The Edition: Judgment call
On the podcast this week:
Lord Sumption makes the case for leaving the ECHR in The Spectator's cover piece. He says that the UK has strong courts and can pass judgement on human rights by itself and j…
Lord Sumption makes the case for leaving the ECHR in The Spectator's cover piece. He says that the UK has strong courts and can pass judgement on human rights by itself and j…
00:42:15 |
Thu 28 Sep 2023
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