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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 2369
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
Women With Balls: Dambisa Moyo
Dambisa Moyo is an economist, life peer and author of five books: from Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa to her most recent, How Boards Work: And How They Can …
00:25:54 |
Fri 19 May 2023
The Edition: Migration nation
This week:
Spectator editor Fraser Nelson writes in this week’s cover story about how Brexit has led to Britain having more, not less, immigration – Rishi Sunak’s government is masking dysfunction in …
Spectator editor Fraser Nelson writes in this week’s cover story about how Brexit has led to Britain having more, not less, immigration – Rishi Sunak’s government is masking dysfunction in …
00:44:52 |
Thu 18 May 2023
Anthony Ossa-Richardson & Richard J Oosterhoff: The Cosmography and Geography of Africa
In this week's Book Club podcast, we're talking about a very new version of a very old book. Leo Africanus's The Cosmography and Geography of Africa was the first book to introduce Africa to the peop…
00:53:20 |
Wed 17 May 2023
Chinese Whispers: How China's mail-order brides are taking back control
The mail-order bride industry is booming – but today's international dating doesn't look as it used to.
It turns out that it’s not so much young and uneducated Chinese women looking to marry out of th…
It turns out that it’s not so much young and uneducated Chinese women looking to marry out of th…
00:35:56 |
Mon 15 May 2023
Spectator Out Loud: Ece Temelkuran, Lara Prendergast & Aidan Hartley
This week Ece Temelkuran on Turkey's upcoming elections (0:54); Lara Prendergast looks at Millenial Millie – a new voter demographic (05:47) and Aidan Hartley on surviving this year's drought (12:12)…
00:17:15 |
Sat 13 May 2023
Americano: what do Donald Trump's children want?
Freddy Gray is joined by filmmaker, Alex Holder who had access to Trump’s inner circle when making the documentary Unprecedented. On the podcast, they discuss Trump's supporter base, his relationship…
00:38:52 |
Fri 12 May 2023
The Edition: Trumps's second act
This week:
Having been found guilty of sexual assault, is Donald Trump still in the running for the White House? In his cover piece, Niall Ferguson says he could still defy gravity. He joins the podca…
Having been found guilty of sexual assault, is Donald Trump still in the running for the White House? In his cover piece, Niall Ferguson says he could still defy gravity. He joins the podca…
00:46:39 |
Thu 11 May 2023
The Book Club: Madeleine Bunting
In this week's Book Club podcast my guest is the writer Madeleine Bunting, whose new book is The Seaside: England's Love Affair. She tells me how the great seaside resorts came into their 19th centur…
00:48:50 |
Wed 10 May 2023
Table Talk: Niki Segnit
Niki Segnit is the author of the hit cooking books The Flavour Thesaurus and Lateral Cooking. Her new book The Flavour Thesaurus more flavours: Plant-led pairings, recipes and ideas for cooks, is out…
00:35:21 |
Tue 09 May 2023
Spectator Out Loud: William Moore, Katy Balls, Dan Hitchens and Ysenda Maxtone Graham
This week: William Moore recalls the 1953 coronation with those that were there (01:02), Katy Balls reads her politics column (10:13), Dan Hitchens discusses the art of coronation (16:20) and Ysenda …
00:30:45 |
Sat 06 May 2023
Americano: what's happening to digital media?
Freddy Gray speaks to journalist Ben Smith, whose new book Traffic is an origins story for digital media. On the podcast they discuss how a new genre of journalism was birthed from a desire to cause …
00:29:21 |
Fri 05 May 2023
Women With Balls: Sam McAlister
Sam McAlister is a producer and author of Scoops: The BBC's Most Shocking Interviews from Prince Andrew to Steven Seagal. When she worked for Newsnight, she was the producer who secured the infamous …
00:35:50 |
Fri 05 May 2023
The Edition: a King in a hurry
This week:
In his cover piece for the magazine, Daily Mail writer, author of Queen of Our Times and co-presenter of the Tea at the Palace podcast, Robert Hardman looks ahead to the reign of King Charl…
In his cover piece for the magazine, Daily Mail writer, author of Queen of Our Times and co-presenter of the Tea at the Palace podcast, Robert Hardman looks ahead to the reign of King Charl…
00:37:52 |
Thu 04 May 2023
The Book Club: Shehan Karunatilaka
My guest in this week's Book Club podcast is Shehan Karunatilaka, author of last year's Booker Prize winner The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. Shehan tells me about writing a novel whose protagonist i…
00:38:22 |
Wed 03 May 2023
Young and jobless: Is the government letting down China's Generation Z?
Hidden in March’s GDP figures was a shocking statistic – a fifth of Chinese 16 to 24 year olds are out of work. This is a near record high, and the economic background to a fresh wave of disillusionm…
00:31:56 |
Mon 01 May 2023
Americano: is Joe Biden a good Catholic?
Freddy Gray speaks to Ed Condon who is the editor of The Pillar On the podcast they talk about Biden's Catholicism; how it plays out in his politics and whether it will be a big part of his president…
00:32:45 |
Sat 29 Apr 2023
Spectator Out Loud: Mary Wakefield, Jenny McCartney & Robert Gore-Langton
This week: Mary Wakefield explains why the NHS is broken; Jenny McCartney on the unproductive 'productivity gurus' and Robert Gore-Langton on Richard Burton’s botched Hamlet.
Produced by Natasha Fero…
Produced by Natasha Fero…
00:21:09 |
Sat 29 Apr 2023
The Week in 60 Minutes: Labour's new recruits & who will win the MAGA right?
Freddy Gray is joined by Ayesha Hazarika and Katy Balls who has written the cover this week on Keir Starmer's centrist army. Also on the show, Cirino Hiteng Ofuho on Sudan's violent civil unrest; Gra…
01:08:18 |
Fri 28 Apr 2023
The Edition: the Starmtroopers
This week:
In her cover piece for the magazine, The Spectator’s political editor Katy Balls writes that as Labour prepares for government, Keir Starmer is rooting out the far left sections of his part…
In her cover piece for the magazine, The Spectator’s political editor Katy Balls writes that as Labour prepares for government, Keir Starmer is rooting out the far left sections of his part…
00:43:10 |
Thu 27 Apr 2023
The Book Club: Michio Kaku
In this week's Book Club podcast my guest is the theoretical physicist Michio Kaku. In his new book Quantum Supremacy, Prof Kaku explains how – as he sees it – the advent of quantum computers is goin…
00:56:41 |
Wed 26 Apr 2023
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