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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 2370
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
The Week in 60 Minutes: Germany held ransom and Biden's Roe cop out
Freddy Gray, The Spectator’s deputy editor, speaks to journalist Jamie Bartlett about his new book on the multi-billion dollar crypto-scam of missing businesswoman Ruja Ignatova:
‘The whole thing was …
‘The whole thing was …
01:01:29 |
Fri 01 Jul 2022
Women With Balls: Anne-Marie Trevelyan
Anne-Marie Trevelyan is the Secretary of State for International Trade and the MP for Berwick-Upon-Tweed. In the episode, she tells Katy about what it was like to join the City in the 90s, what she c…
00:32:33 |
Fri 01 Jul 2022
The Edition: Cold War
In this week’s episode:
Can Russia turn off Germany’s gas?
Wolfgang Münchau and Katja Hoyer discuss Germany’s looming energy crisis (0.51).
Also this week:
What are relations like between Boris Johnson a…
00:41:14 |
Thu 30 Jun 2022
The Book Club: The Celts
My guest in this week’s book club podcast is Simon Jenkins. His new book The Celts: A Sceptical History tells the story of a race of people who, contrary to what many of us were taught in school, nev…
00:40:29 |
Wed 29 Jun 2022
Chinese Whispers: the radical age of Chinese cinema
You probably wouldn’t expect to see the Cultural Revolution in Chinese films, or the Great Leap Forward, or the Tiananmen Square protests. But for a certain generation and a certain corner of the Chi…
00:44:06 |
Mon 27 Jun 2022
Spectator Out Loud: Melvyn Bragg, Svitlana Moronets, Matthew Parris and Lionel Shriver
On this week's episode: Melvyn Bragg on the continuing genius of Paul McCartney and what makes the BBC great (0:55). Svitlana Morenets, a Ukrainian refugee now working at The Spectator on why her cou…
00:32:23 |
Fri 24 Jun 2022
Americano: What will happen now Roe v Wade is overturned?
Inez Stepman returns to talk to Freddy Gray about the overturning of the 1973 Roe v Wade decision by the Supreme Court.
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00:21:44 |
Fri 24 Jun 2022
The Week in 60 Minutes: Putin's billions & a cure for cancer
‘We can talk about sanctions all we want, but the West is still very much funding Putin's war chest.’ – Kate Andrews
The economist Julian Jessop joins Kate to discuss what else the West can do to put …
The economist Julian Jessop joins Kate to discuss what else the West can do to put …
01:03:41 |
Fri 24 Jun 2022
The Edition: Putin's billions
In this week’s episode:
Are Russian sanctions backfiring?
The Spectator’s economics editor, Kate Andrews and Elisabeth Braw from American Enterprise Institute discuss why sanctions against Russia may b…
Are Russian sanctions backfiring?
The Spectator’s economics editor, Kate Andrews and Elisabeth Braw from American Enterprise Institute discuss why sanctions against Russia may b…
00:35:07 |
Thu 23 Jun 2022
The Book Club: Philip Mansel
In this week’s Book Club podcast, my guest is the historian Philip Mansel. We talk about his new biography King of the World: The Life of Louis XIV. He tells me what really drove the great megalomani…
00:43:52 |
Wed 22 Jun 2022
Table Talk: Olia Hercules on #CookForUkraine
On a slightly different episode of Table Talk, chef and food writer, Olia Hercules joins Olivia Potts for a second time on the podcast to talk about #CookForUkraine. Created with Russian friend and f…
00:21:52 |
Tue 21 Jun 2022
Spectator Out Loud: Mary Wakefield, John R. MacArthur and Daisy Dunn
On this week's episode: Mary Wakefield asks why no one's mentioning the cult Tom Cruise belongs to (00:54), John R. MacArthur asks if Macron should be scared by an ascendant Jean-Luc Mélenchon (06:58…
00:24:12 |
Fri 17 Jun 2022
Women With Balls: Time to break the menopause taboo
Women of menopausal age make up a tenth of the UK workforce (and a quarter of all working women). The symptoms of menopause can make work much harder, they include both physical and mental, from hot …
00:31:55 |
Fri 17 Jun 2022
The Edition: The death of political authority
In this week’s episode:
Why is there a lack of faith in western leaders? Spectator deputy editor Freddy Gray, Callum Williams from the Economist & Harvard professor Barbara Kellerman discuss why the w…
00:37:28 |
Thu 16 Jun 2022
The Book Club: Andrea Elliott
In this week's Book Club podcast I'm joined by the New York Times's Andrea Elliott, who won the Pulitzer Prize for her book Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in New York City. She tells me …
00:39:13 |
Wed 15 Jun 2022
Marshall Matters: Coleman Hughes
Winston speaks with writer, musician and host of Conversations with Coleman, Coleman Hughes. They discuss blasphemy in the music industry, counter-culture, race, reparations, colourblindness and much…
01:10:55 |
Tue 14 Jun 2022
Chinese Whispers: Mythbusting the social credit system
China's social credit system is notorious. This Black Mirror-esque network supposedly gives citizens a score, based on an opaque algorithm that feeds on data from each person's digital and physical l…
00:54:36 |
Mon 13 Jun 2022
Boris scrapes through and Africa's grain crisis – The Week in 60 Minutes
John Connolly, The Spectator’s news editor, speaks to historian Anthony Seldon about whether Boris Johnson might resign:
‘Why on earth would he want to carry on and have more of this humiliation? Why…
‘Why on earth would he want to carry on and have more of this humiliation? Why…
01:03:45 |
Sun 12 Jun 2022
Spectator Out Loud: Katy Balls, John Connolly and Gus Carter
On this week's episode:
Katy Balls reads her article on the cadets gunning for the Tory leadership. (00:52)
John Connolly reads his investigation into the new warehouse ghettos where Britain is sendin…
Katy Balls reads her article on the cadets gunning for the Tory leadership. (00:52)
John Connolly reads his investigation into the new warehouse ghettos where Britain is sendin…
00:16:34 |
Sat 11 Jun 2022
Americano: What is the point of the January 6th committee?
Freddy Gray talks to journalists Jacob Heilbrunn, the editor of The National Interest, and John Daniel Davidson, senior editor of The Federalist, about the beginning of public hearings at the House S…
00:29:30 |
Fri 10 Jun 2022
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