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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 2370
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
Women With Balls: Julie Bindel
Julie Bindel is a radical feminist, journalist and activist. Growing up in Darlington, she left school aged 15, and at 16 moved to Leeds in search of – in her own words – 'scary-sounding feminists'. …
00:31:56 |
Fri 10 Jun 2022
The Edition: How the rebels plan to finish off Boris
In this week’s episode:
Is the Prime Minister a dead man walking? Spectator Political Editor James Forsyth and MP Jesse Norman who expressed no confidence in Monday's vote discuss the future of Boris …
00:45:20 |
Thu 09 Jun 2022
The Book Club: China Miéville: A Spectre, Haunting: On The Communist Manifesto
In this week’s Book Club podcast, I’m joined by the writer China Miéville to talk about his new book A Spectre, Haunting: On The Communist Manifesto. China makes the case for why this 1848 document d…
00:49:51 |
Wed 08 Jun 2022
Table Talk: Nell Hudson
Nell Hudson has starred in Outlander, Victoria and the latest Texas Chainsaw Massacre film. Her debut novel, Just for Today, is out now: it’s about a group of twenty-somethings in London, having “hea…
00:20:48 |
Tue 07 Jun 2022
Holy Smoke: The Queen's powerful Christian faith
In this week's Holy Smoke I offer some thoughts on the impressive and distinctive Christian faith of the Queen – impressive because it's so refreshingly direct compared to that of many of her politic…
00:11:39 |
Mon 06 Jun 2022
The Week in 60 Minutes: Putin's nukes and China after Tiananmen
Fraser Nelson, The Spectator’s editor, speaks to Louise Perry, author of The Case Against the Sexual Revolution, about why it should be harder to divorce. Elsewhere on the the show, Spectator contrib…
01:10:05 |
Sun 05 Jun 2022
Spectator Out Loud: Robert Hardman, Meirion Thomas and Sarah Ditum
On this week's episode, Robert Hardman reads his cover article on the quiet radicalism of Queen Elizabeth II (00:50); J. Meirion Thomas reads his article on the 'total triage' system that is leaving …
00:23:25 |
Thu 02 Jun 2022
The Edition: The quiet radicalism of Elizabeth II
In this week’s episode:
Robert Hardman & Angela Levin, two of the UK’s royal specialists, explore the character of the Queen and the impact she has had on the institution of the monarchy. (00:36)
Also …
00:33:39 |
Wed 01 Jun 2022
The Book Club: Daniel Kahneman and Olivier Sibony
My guests in this week's Book Club podcast are Daniel Kahneman and Olivier Sibony, co-authors (with Cass R Sunstein) of Noise: A Flaw In Human Judgment. Augmenting the work on psychological bias that…
00:38:57 |
Wed 01 Jun 2022
Chinese Whispers: how the Cultural Revolution shaped China's leaders today
All eyes are on the Communist leadership this year, as the months count down to autumn’s National Party Congress, where Xi Jinping may be crowned for a third term. But how much do we really know abou…
00:53:54 |
Tue 31 May 2022
Marshall Matters: Rahima Mahmut
This week on Marshall Matters Winston speaks to Rahima Mahmut. Rahima is a Uyghur singer, writer, translator and activist. They discussed the history and genocide of her people, compared CCP narrativ…
00:52:01 |
Mon 30 May 2022
The Week in 60 Minutes: Boris's guilt and Taiwan's lessons
Kate Andrews, The Spectator’s economics editor, speaks to Emma Ashford, a senior research fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center, and Spectator contributor Ian Williams.
On the rest of the …
On the rest of the …
00:52:38 |
Sun 29 May 2022
Spectator Out Loud: Douglas Murray, Lionel Shriver, Julian Glover, James Bartholomew
On this week's episode, Douglas Murray says the world is becoming claustrophobic, (00:55) Lionel Shriver struggles to get through South African airport security, (08:29) Julian Glover maps out the co…
00:28:05 |
Sat 28 May 2022
Americano: Why are there so many mass shootings?
Freddy Gray speaks to award-winning author and Spectator columnist Lionel Shriver about mass shootings and gun culture in the United States, in the wake of the tragedy at Robb Elementary School in Uv…
00:40:16 |
Fri 27 May 2022
Women With Balls: The Frances Haugen Edition
Frances Haugen is an American data scientist, most well known for her whistleblowing of Facebook's failures at controlling misinformation. Her insider knowledge allowed the Wall Street Journal to pub…
00:39:18 |
Fri 27 May 2022
The Edition: Inside Taiwan’s plan to thwart Beijing
In this week’s episode:
Ian Williams, author of The Fire of the Dragon: China’s New Cold war, and Alessio Patalano, Professor of War and Strategy in East Asia at King’s College London, talk about how …
Ian Williams, author of The Fire of the Dragon: China’s New Cold war, and Alessio Patalano, Professor of War and Strategy in East Asia at King’s College London, talk about how …
00:36:49 |
Thu 26 May 2022
Americano: is Kissinger right about Ukraine?
Freddy Gray speaks to Sergey Radchenko a Cold War historian and Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced Interna…
00:31:44 |
Wed 25 May 2022
The Book Club: William Leith
My guest in the Book Club podcast this week is my namesake (but no relation) William Leith – whose new book The Cut That Wouldn't Heal: Finding My Father describes the death of his father and the way…
00:54:53 |
Wed 25 May 2022
Table Talk: Nuno Mendes
Born in Lisbon, Portugal. Nuno Mendes grew up on a farm which inspired a passion and understanding for food. He attended the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco but after over a decade in No…
00:29:29 |
Tue 24 May 2022
Katy Balls, James Heale and Melissa Kite
On this week’s episode, we’ll hear from Katy Balls on Boris Johnson’s plans to divide and conquer (0.33).
After that, James Heale on the broadcast battle obsessing British media (6.20).
And to finish, …
00:16:15 |
Fri 20 May 2022
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