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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 2369
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
The Week in 60 Minutes: Trump vs DeSantis & Rishi meets Macron
Freddy Gray The Spectator’s deputy editor speaks to Andrew Cockburn and Danielle Lee Tomson about the battle for the American right – who will win out of Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump? Also on the sh…
01:02:49 |
Sun 12 Mar 2023
Spectator Out Loud: James Heale, Cosmo Landesman and Miranda Morrison
This week: James Heale asks whether the cabinet secretary Simon Case can carry on (01:00), Cosmo Landesman tells the story of when a man – and his axe – came to visit his home in London (05:03), and …
00:18:02 |
Sat 11 Mar 2023
Americano: Who on earth is George Santos...
Freddy Gray speaks to Shawn McCreesh, a features writer at New York Magazine who recently spent time with Republican Congressman, George Santos.
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00:21:04 |
Fri 10 Mar 2023
The Edition: Don vs Ron
In the cover piece of this week's magazine, deputy editor Freddy Gray writes about the fight for the American right: it's Don (Trump) vs Ron (DeSantis). Who will win? On the podcast, Freddy is joined…
00:29:21 |
Thu 09 Mar 2023
The Book Club: Sara Wheeler
On this week's Book Club podcast, my guest is Sara Wheeler, who looks back on her travelling life in Glowing Still: A Woman's Life on the Road. She tells me why it's 'a book about tits and toilets', …
00:41:11 |
Wed 08 Mar 2023
Marshall Matters: Simon Fanshawe
Winston speaks with Perrier Award-winning comedian, writer, author and co-founder of gay rights charity Stonewall, Simon Fanshawe. They discuss the history of Stonewall, Fanshawe’s recent book ‘The P…
00:58:52 |
Tue 07 Mar 2023
Chinese Whispers: spy planes and infiltrators
The Chinese Communist Party likes to blame its domestic political problems on foreign interference, and it has done so since the days of Chairman Mao.
But sometimes, does this paranoia, this narrative…
But sometimes, does this paranoia, this narrative…
00:46:38 |
Mon 06 Mar 2023
Americano: is Seymour Hersh wrong about the Nord Stream pipelines?
In response to Seymour Hersh's recent appearance on Americano, Freddy speaks with open-source intelligence analyst Oliver Alexander, who unpacks his argument against Hersh's claims about the U.S. blo…
00:32:23 |
Sun 05 Mar 2023
Spectator Out Loud: Max Jeffery, Emily Rhodes and Daisy Dunn
This week: Max Jeffery reads his letter from Abu Dhabi where he visited the International Defence Exhibition (00:56), Emily Rhodes discusses the tyranny of World Book Day (05:59), and Daisy Dunn tell…
00:18:28 |
Sat 04 Mar 2023
Women With Balls: What next for women in tech?
Women make up half of the workforce in the UK. Yet when it comes to high-skilled, high-income jobs in tech, just 26 per cent of the workforce are women and 77 per cent of tech leaders are men. Jobs i…
00:29:36 |
Fri 03 Mar 2023
The Edition: is Putin winning?
This week:
Is Putin winning?
In his cover piece for the magazine, historian and author Peter Frankopan says that Russia is reshaping the world in its favour by cultivating an anti-Western alliance o…
Is Putin winning?
In his cover piece for the magazine, historian and author Peter Frankopan says that Russia is reshaping the world in its favour by cultivating an anti-Western alliance o…
00:37:27 |
Thu 02 Mar 2023
The Book Club: Carlo Rovelli
On this week’s Book Club, I’m joined by the theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli to talk about his new book Anaximander and the Nature of Science, in which he explains how a radical thinker two and a …
00:48:27 |
Wed 01 Mar 2023
Marshall Matters: Matt Walsh
Winston speaks with American author, film-maker, political commentator and activist Matt Walsh. They discuss Matt’s film ‘What Is A Woman’ and its cultural and political impact, the difference betwee…
00:48:53 |
Tue 28 Feb 2023
Table Talk: Tom Athron
Tom Athron is the CEO of luxury brand Fortnum and Mason, a position which he undertook during the pandemic having held senior roles at John Lewis and Waitrose.
On the podcast he talks about his earlie…
On the podcast he talks about his earlie…
00:30:22 |
Mon 27 Feb 2023
Spectator Out Loud: Isabel Hardman, Christopher Howse and Lucy Dunn
This week: Isabel Hardman asks whether politics and religion can mix (00:58), Christopher Howse discusses the transformative power of folk costume (08:06), and Lucy Dunn reads her notes on meal deals…
00:22:38 |
Sat 25 Feb 2023
The Week in 60 Minutes: Brexit's back and the real Shamima Begum
On this week's show, Kate Andrews The Spectator's economics editor speaks to historian Andrew Roberts about Britain's hollow army; Arlene Foster on the Northern Ireland Protocol; Andrew Drury on why …
01:05:43 |
Fri 24 Feb 2023
The Edition: farewell to arms
This week:
In his cover piece for the magazine, Andrew Roberts says that the British Army has been hollowed out by years of underfunding and a lack of foresight when it comes to replacing the munition…
In his cover piece for the magazine, Andrew Roberts says that the British Army has been hollowed out by years of underfunding and a lack of foresight when it comes to replacing the munition…
00:39:09 |
Thu 23 Feb 2023
The Book Club: Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
My guest on this week’s Book Club is Robert Douglas-Fairhurst. In his new book Metamorphosis: A Life in Pieces, Robert describes how being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis plunged him from his comfo…
00:34:18 |
Wed 22 Feb 2023
Americano: Is it crazy to think America took out the Nord Stream pipeline?
Freddy Gray speaks to award-winning journalist and reporter Seymour Hersh to discuss his recent Substack article titled How America took out the Nord Stream pipeline.
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00:41:23 |
Tue 21 Feb 2023
Chinese Whispers: the rise of rock in China
Every protest needs an anthem, and for the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, 'Nothing to My Name' by Cui Jian became that emblem. Cui was one of China's earliest rockers, taking inspiration from the pe…
00:35:09 |
Mon 20 Feb 2023
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