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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 2369
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
Do women still face barriers in the workplace?
Since the pandemic, the nature of working has changed, and in some cases, revealed the weaknesses in the experience of work for women. With some companies eager to get back to business as usual, wome…
00:28:19 |
Fri 30 Dec 2022
Women With Balls: Dame Rachel de Souza
Dame Rachel de Souza is the Children’s Commissioner for England. Having spent more than 30 years in education, she grew a reputation for her unconventional but effective ways of turning poor-performi…
00:25:03 |
Fri 23 Dec 2022
Americano: 2022: The year in review
Freddy Gray and Jacob Heilbrunn reflect on an eventful year, looking back at the response to the invasion of Ukraine, the American economy and the makeup of the new Congress. Plus, will Joe Biden or …
00:29:53 |
Mon 19 Dec 2022
Podcast special: the global role of British aid
Putin’s invasion of Ukraine shocked the world. Whilst fighting is happening in Europe, repercussions have been felt around the globe. Disruption to trade and supply chains means a rapidly worsening o…
00:45:16 |
Mon 19 Dec 2022
Spectator Out Loud: Owen Matthews, Christopher Howse and Olivia Potts
On this episode, Owen Matthews examines the original sin of Russia’s exiled media (00:44), Christopher Howse says Handel’s Messiah is as much a Christmas tradition as a pantomime (09:08), and Olivia …
00:22:36 |
Sat 17 Dec 2022
Women With Balls: Coping with financial worries
Many are already feeling the pinch of the cost-of-living crisis. Choices between ‘heating and eating’ have become routine for some households, as bills and food costs rise. With money at the forefron…
00:28:52 |
Fri 16 Dec 2022
The Edition: Christmas Special
Welcome to the special Christmas episode of The Edition!
Up first: What a year in politics it has been. 2022 has seen five education secretaries, four chancellors, three prime ministers and two monar…
Up first: What a year in politics it has been. 2022 has seen five education secretaries, four chancellors, three prime ministers and two monar…
01:04:57 |
Thu 15 Dec 2022
Marshall Matters: Sohrab Ahmari
Winston speaks Sohrab Ahmari, author of The New Philistines, From Fire By Water and The Unbroken Thread, a co-founder of Compact magazine and former editor at the New York Post. Sohrab was an editor …
00:49:10 |
Tue 13 Dec 2022
Chinese Whispers: strangers in a strange land
Over the last few hundred years, China has had a difficult and complicated relationship with foreigners. On the one hand, they added to the country’s intellectual richness by introducing western phil…
00:39:26 |
Mon 12 Dec 2022
Spectator Out Loud: Jenny McCartney, Chloë Ashby and Ysenda Maxtone Graham
This week: Jenny McCartney says don't expect a united Ireland any time soon (00:57), Chloë Ashby reads her review of Con/Artist the memoir of notorious art forger Tony Tetro (07:57), and Ysenda Maxto…
00:18:15 |
Sat 10 Dec 2022
Americano: What have the Twitter files uncovered?
Freddy Gray talks to the Spectator’s contributing editor Chadwick Moore about the release of the so-called ‘Twitter files’ and what they reveal about the extent of censorship and coverup before, duri…
00:23:36 |
Fri 09 Dec 2022
The Edition: War of the Windsors
This week:
For his cover piece in The Spectator Freddy Gray asks who will win in the battle between the Waleses and the Sussexes. He is joined by historian Amanda Foreman to discuss the fallout Harry …
For his cover piece in The Spectator Freddy Gray asks who will win in the battle between the Waleses and the Sussexes. He is joined by historian Amanda Foreman to discuss the fallout Harry …
00:46:35 |
Thu 08 Dec 2022
The Book Club: Matthew Hollis
My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is Matthew Hollis, author of The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem. In the tail end of this centenary year of the great monument of modernist poetry, Matthew…
00:52:19 |
Wed 07 Dec 2022
Marshall Matters: Graham Linehan
Winston speaks with Irish comedy writer Graham Linehan, creator of Father Ted, The IT Crowd and Black Books. Graham took a stand as a women’s rights activist which led to Father Ted: The Musical bein…
00:37:40 |
Tue 06 Dec 2022
Table Talk: John-Paul Flintoff
John-Paul Flintoff is a journalist, writer and artist who has written a number of books including his most recent, Psalms for the City: Original poetry inspired by the places we call home.
On the pod…
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00:25:18 |
Mon 05 Dec 2022
Spectator Out Loud: Jade McGlynn, Lucy Dunn and Graeme Thomson
On this week's episode, Jade McGlynn reads her article on the Russian mothers and wives turning against Putin, because of their sons and husbands missing in the war (00:55). Lucy Dunn, a former junio…
00:19:58 |
Sat 03 Dec 2022
Americano: Kanye West, anti-semitism, and the future of black conservatism
Freddy Gray discusses 'Ye' 2024 with writer, musician and host of the podcast Conversations with Coleman, Coleman Hughes. They consider whether Kanye has a messianic complex or if he is simply trolli…
00:23:53 |
Fri 02 Dec 2022
Women With Balls: Kezia Dugdale
Kezia Dugdale was the leader of the Scottish Labour party from 2015 to 2017, taking on the job at a tough time following a near-wipeout defeat at Westminster. She served as an MSP for the Lothian reg…
00:35:17 |
Fri 02 Dec 2022
The Edition: the new vandals
This week:
In his cover piece Douglas Murray writes that museums are turning against their own collections. He is joined by the historian Robert Tombs to discuss whether a culture of self-flagellation…
In his cover piece Douglas Murray writes that museums are turning against their own collections. He is joined by the historian Robert Tombs to discuss whether a culture of self-flagellation…
00:31:08 |
Thu 01 Dec 2022
The Book Club: Rupert Shortt
My guest on this week's Book Club podcast is Rupert Shortt, whose stimulating new book The Hardest Problem addresses one of the oldest difficulties in theology: "the problem of evil". Is this somethi…
00:52:08 |
Wed 30 Nov 2022
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