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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 2369
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
The Book Club: Thomas Halliday
Sam's guest on this week's Book Club podcast is the palaeobiologist Thomas Halliday, whose book Otherlands: A World In The Making takes us on an extraordinary journey through the whole history of lif…
00:53:37 |
Wed 25 Jan 2023
Marshall Matters: Bjorn Lomborg
Winston speaks with sceptical environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg, author of the book False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts The Poor, And Fails To Fix The Planet. They discuss cl…
00:54:23 |
Tue 24 Jan 2023
Chinese Whispers: how will China remember the pandemic?
Three years ago, as people across China welcomed the Year of the Rat, a new virus was taking hold in Wuhan. In London, the conversation at my family’s New Year dinner was dominated by the latest upda…
00:47:37 |
Mon 23 Jan 2023
Spectator Out Loud: Richard Madeley, Daniel Johnson and Melinda Hughes
This week: Richard Madeley reads his diary in the magazine, including recollections of his Sunday lunch with George Michael (00:58). Also, Daniel Johnson shares a touching tribute to his late father …
00:17:22 |
Sat 21 Jan 2023
Women With Balls: Nimco Ali
Nimco Ali is an activist, government advisor, author and FGM survivor. Born in Somaliland, Nimco moved to the UK as a child fleeing civil war. On holiday in Djibouti aged 7, she was subjected to fema…
00:32:58 |
Fri 20 Jan 2023
The Edition: gender wars
On the podcast this week:
In his cover piece for the magazine Iain Macwhirter writes in the aftermath of the government’s decision to block the Scottish Gender Recognition Reform Bill from gaining Ro…
In his cover piece for the magazine Iain Macwhirter writes in the aftermath of the government’s decision to block the Scottish Gender Recognition Reform Bill from gaining Ro…
00:38:32 |
Thu 19 Jan 2023
The Book Club: Ashley Ward
My guest on this week's Book Club podcast is Ashley Ward, author of Sensational: A New Story of our Senses, which takes us on a cultural, historical and neurobiological tour of the sensorium. Along t…
00:59:38 |
Wed 18 Jan 2023
Table Talk: Luke Farrell
Luke Farrell is a restauranteur and founder of two of London's fieriest new openings, Plaza Khao Gaeng and Speedboat Bar. He has spent the last few years dividing his time between Thailand and his nu…
00:28:23 |
Tue 17 Jan 2023
Americano: is university the enemy of American progress?
Freddy Gray speaks to author and founder of the venture capitalist fund 1517 Michael Gibson, about his new book Paper Belt on Fire.
On the podcast they discuss the parallels between universities and …
On the podcast they discuss the parallels between universities and …
00:47:48 |
Mon 16 Jan 2023
The Week in 60 Minutes: Harry's 'truth' and the case for Keir
On the show, journalist Petronella Wyatt and historian David Abulafia discuss Prince Harry’s new book, Spare, journalist Owen Matthews explains why Putin’s plan to freeze Europe failed, Spectator edi…
00:59:34 |
Sun 15 Jan 2023
Spectator Out Loud: Lionel Shriver, Theo Hobson and John Maier
This week: Lionel Shriver asks whether we are kidding ourselves over Ukraine (00:56), Theo Hobson discusses Martin Luther King and the demise of liberal Protestantism (09:28), and John Maier reads hi…
00:24:41 |
Sat 14 Jan 2023
The Edition: who's afraid of Keir Starmer?
This week:
Who's afraid of Keir Starmer?
In his cover piece for the magazine, The Spectator's Editor Fraser Nelson says that without a Labour demon to point at the Tories stand little chance in the nex…
Who's afraid of Keir Starmer?
In his cover piece for the magazine, The Spectator's Editor Fraser Nelson says that without a Labour demon to point at the Tories stand little chance in the nex…
00:40:35 |
Thu 12 Jan 2023
The Book Club: A. E. Stallings
In this week's Book Club podcast, my guest is the distinguished poet A. E. Stallings, whose new selected poems This Afterlife marks her first UK publication in book form. She tells me why the idea th…
00:38:22 |
Wed 11 Jan 2023
Americano: Will Mexico help Biden stop illegal immigration?
President Biden is visiting Mexico this week to meet with President Obrador, and Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada. Biden is expected to bring up illegal immigration with Obrador, and hopes that he ca…
00:26:39 |
Tue 10 Jan 2023
Chinese Whispers: should Confucius Institutes be shut down?
Should Confucius Institutes be shut down? There are hundreds of these centres across six continents, funded by the Ministry of Education, with the stated goal of public education on and cultural prom…
00:30:09 |
Mon 09 Jan 2023
Americano: What’s the matter with Kevin McCarthy?
Kevin McCarthy’s hopes to be voted House Speaker reaches day four still without a resolution. How much will he have to concede in order to win over the Republican rebels? Freddy Gray speaks to Amber …
00:23:22 |
Sun 08 Jan 2023
Spectator Out Loud: Stuart Ritchie, Mary Wakefield and Toby Young
This week: Stuart Ritchie asks how worried we should be about falling sperm counts (0:29). Mary Wakefield wants to end the term ‘making memories’. (9:00), and Toby Young shares his disastrous Airbnb …
00:20:38 |
Sat 07 Jan 2023
The Edition: Six more years
On the podcast this week:
The Spectator’s deputy editor Freddy Gray writes the cover piece looking ahead to the possibility of another 6 years of President Biden. He is joined by Amie Parnes, senior …
The Spectator’s deputy editor Freddy Gray writes the cover piece looking ahead to the possibility of another 6 years of President Biden. He is joined by Amie Parnes, senior …
00:43:22 |
Thu 05 Jan 2023
Table Talk: Amber Guinness
Amber Guinness is a cook, author, journalist and co-founder of The Arniano Painting School. Her first book, A House Party in Tuscany, is out now.
On the podcast she discusses growing up in Tuscany, h…
On the podcast she discusses growing up in Tuscany, h…
00:22:25 |
Tue 03 Jan 2023
Podcast special: Britain’s role in the global economic recovery
Covid 19 has been a crisis without borders. In a highly interconnected world, every country has felt the impacts of the pandemic, from supply chain disruption to low productivity and high inflationar…
00:35:23 |
Sat 31 Dec 2022
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