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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 2369
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
The Book Club: Tom Whipple
My guest in this week's Book Club podcast is Tom Whipple, science editor of the Times and author of the gripping new book The Battle of the Beams: The secret science of radar that turned the tide of …
00:46:12 |
Wed 05 Jul 2023
Marshall Matters: Francis Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama is an American political scientist and international relations scholar known for his famous book The End of History and The Last Man. Francis and Winston discuss the state of liberal…
00:31:14 |
Tue 04 Jul 2023
Table Talk: Amy Newsome
Amy Newsome is a Kew-trained horticulturalist, beekeeper and author of the new book Honey: Recipe's from a beekeepers kitchen.
On the podcast, she tells Lara and Liv how beekeeping saved her mental h…
On the podcast, she tells Lara and Liv how beekeeping saved her mental h…
00:37:57 |
Tue 04 Jul 2023
Americano: Joe Biden is not OK
Freddy Gray speaks to Spectator columnist, Douglas Murray who wrote in the magazine this week about Joe Biden's endless gaffes and the incompetence which Douglas argues has spilled into the rest of t…
00:24:59 |
Mon 03 Jul 2023
Chinese Whispers: what does Beijing think of the Wagner uprising?
It’s now a week since the Wagner Group revolted against the Kremlin.
Though the dramatic uprising was quelled within 24 hours and the group’s leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, is now exiled to Belarus, the e…
Though the dramatic uprising was quelled within 24 hours and the group’s leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, is now exiled to Belarus, the e…
00:36:05 |
Mon 03 Jul 2023
Spectator Out Loud: Isabel Hardman, Paul Wood and Alexandra Shulman
This week: Isabel Hardman examines our curious obsession with glucose monitoring gadgets (01:03), Paul Wood wonders what exactly went on between Putin and Prigozhin (07:11), and Alexandra Shulman sha…
00:18:01 |
Sat 01 Jul 2023
Americano: Will Hunter bring down Joe Biden?
This week Freddy is joined by Jacob Heilbrunn, editor of the National Interest, and Charles Lipson, professor of political science at the University of Chicago. They discuss Charles's recent piece in…
00:38:42 |
Fri 30 Jun 2023
Women With Balls: Tulip Siddiq
Tulip Siddiq is the Labour MP for Hampstead and Kilburn and shadow economic secretary to the treasury. She was born into to a prestigious Bangladeshi family. Her grandfather was the founding father o…
00:36:36 |
Fri 30 Jun 2023
The Edition: After Putin
This week:
In the magazine we look at the Wagner Group’s failed coup and its implications for Putin’s reign. The Spectator’s Russia correspondent Owen Matthews examines why the Kremlin permits the exi…
In the magazine we look at the Wagner Group’s failed coup and its implications for Putin’s reign. The Spectator’s Russia correspondent Owen Matthews examines why the Kremlin permits the exi…
00:36:49 |
Thu 29 Jun 2023
The Book Club: Laura Cumming
My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is the art critic Laura Cumming. Her new book Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death talks about her fascination for the paintings of the Dut…
00:49:35 |
Wed 28 Jun 2023
Can big tobacco ever be a force for good? An interview PMI’s CEO Jacek Olczak
Philip Morris International is one of the world's most interesting and controversial companies. Recently, they announced their vision to exit the business of making cigarettes and enter what they des…
00:35:42 |
Tue 27 Jun 2023
Spectator Out Loud: Matt Ridley, Martin Newland & Mary Wakefield
This week: Matt Ridley reveals the identity of the Chinese scientists in the lab linked to Covid, Martin Newland makes the moral case for becoming a foster carer, and Mary Wakefield has a plan for he…
00:22:07 |
Sat 24 Jun 2023
Holy Smoke: Inside the world's most vicious liturgy wars
In the ancient Syro-Malabar Church of south India, clergy who try to change the liturgy do so at their peril. At St Mary’s Cathedral Basilica in Ernakulam last December, a long-standing dispute over …
00:23:14 |
Fri 23 Jun 2023
The Edition: home truths
This week:
First up: for the cover piece, The Spectator’s economics editor Kate Andrews has written about Britain’s mortgage timebomb, as the UK faces the sharpest interest rate hike since the 80s. In…
First up: for the cover piece, The Spectator’s economics editor Kate Andrews has written about Britain’s mortgage timebomb, as the UK faces the sharpest interest rate hike since the 80s. In…
00:37:47 |
Thu 22 Jun 2023
Andrew Pontzen: The Universe In A Box
Sam Leith's guest in this week's Book Club podcast is the cosmologist Andrew Pontzen. His The Universe In A Box: A New Cosmic History describes how we have learned to simulate first the weather, and …
00:53:23 |
Wed 21 Jun 2023
Marshall Matters: Exposing the censorship industrial complex
Michael Shellenberger, Twitter Files journalist and founder of Public is in London to discuss the international censorship industrial complex. He explains to Winston how the complex web of government…
01:15:23 |
Tue 20 Jun 2023
Chinese Whispers: how divided is Europe on China?
The word ‘West’ is often used as a shorthand to describe liberal democracies in Europe, and perhaps in Asia too, such that we’ll often talk about ‘the West’s attitude to China’, or the ‘West’s relati…
00:38:51 |
Mon 19 Jun 2023
Spectator Out Loud: James Heale, Paul Wood and Hermione Eyre
This week: James Heale takes us through the runners and riders for the conservative nomination for mayor of London (1:00), Paul Wood discusses how Saudi Arabia is trying to buy the world (06:02), and…
00:20:51 |
Sat 17 Jun 2023
Americano: Will nuclear power heal the climate?
This week, Freddy is joined by a great American filmmaker, Oliver Stone, and a great Argentinian filmmaker, Fernando Sulichin. Their new documentary Nuclear Now proposes nuclear energy as the solutio…
00:51:38 |
Fri 16 Jun 2023
Women With Balls: Isabel Oakeshott
Isabel Oakeshott is a journalist and author of numerous political biographies, formerly the political editor for the Sunday Times. She's known for a number of scoops over the years, including Chris H…
00:46:09 |
Fri 16 Jun 2023
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