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Average duration: 33 minutes
Episodes: 2370
Years Active: 2016 - 2025

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The Book Club: Stephen Dodd

In this week's Book Club podcast, our subject is the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima - whose novel Beautiful Star is being published in English for the first time this month. My guest is its translator…

00:38:22 | Wed 27 Apr 2022

Table Talk: Ameer Kotecha

Ameer Kotecha is a British diplomat, pop-up chef and food writer. His first cookbook the Platinum Jubilee Cookbook, in which he chronicles 70 recipes related to the Royals, Diplomacy and the Commonwe…

00:20:29 | Tue 26 Apr 2022

A vision for the future: Can Britain become a biotech superpower?

The UK's vaccine programme was hailed by the government as a success story for Global Britain. It became an example of how Britain could speed up regulation, reduce bureaucracy and become a worldwide…

00:29:56 | Mon 25 Apr 2022

The Week in 60 Minutes: Macron's ego and Putin's propaganda

John Connolly, The Spectator's news editor, is joined by Mark Galeotti, director of Mayak Intelligence; Freddy Gray, The Spectator's deputy editor; Cindy Yu, The Spectator's broadcast editor; Jade Mc…

00:58:52 | Sun 24 Apr 2022

Spectator Out Loud: Jonathan Miller, Cindy Yu and Laura Freeman

On this week's episode, Jonathan Miller says that whoever wins France's election on Sunday, the country is going to the dogs. (01:00) After, Cindy Yu says that China's online censors are struggling t…

00:21:22 | Sat 23 Apr 2022

Women With Balls: Generation spent

The cost of living is rising, as is the cost of renting. Zoopla estimates that rents are rising at the fastest rate in 14 years, which means that the average rent in the UK is now over £1000 a month.

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00:34:09 | Fri 22 Apr 2022

The Edition: How much longer can Boris Johnson keep going?

In this week’s episode: Is Boris going to limp on?

In her cover piece this week, Katy Balls writes that although Boris Johnson believes he can survive the partygate scandal, he has some way to go unti…

00:41:19 | Thu 21 Apr 2022

The Book Club: Gideon Rachman

Sam's guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is the FT’s foreign affairs columnist Gideon Rachman. In his new book The Age of the Strongman, he takes a global look at the rise of personality-cult aut…

00:45:29 | Wed 20 Apr 2022

Marshall Matters: Seth Dillon - Will Elon Musk 'Free The Bee'?

This week on Marshall Matters Winston speaks with Seth Dillon, CEO and owner of American political satire site The Babylon Bee. The Babylon Bee are currently locked out of their Twitter account for a…

00:30:38 | Tue 19 Apr 2022

Chinese Whispers: Algorithms and lockdowns – how China's gig economy works

‘One Shanghai courier uses own 70,000 yuan to buy necessities for people’, one Weibo hashtag trended last week. Instead of being seen as a damning indictment on what the state’s strict lockdown has i…

00:41:38 | Mon 18 Apr 2022

Spectator Out Loud: Mark Drew, Luke Coppen and Edward Behrens

On this episode: Mark Drew explains how Putin weaponised the Russian Orthodox church (00:49); Luke Coppen says the war in Ukraine has revitalised Poland’s Catholic church (08:17); and Edward Behrens …

00:21:27 | Sat 16 Apr 2022

Americano: Could Elon Musk save Twitter?

Freddy Gray speaks to Kat Rosenfield, the author and UnHerd columnist, about Elon Musk's proposal to buy a controlling stake in the social media giant.

Rosenfield's latest book, No One Will Miss Her,…

00:21:30 | Fri 15 Apr 2022

The Edition: Cross to bear

In this week’s episode: How are the people of both Russia and Ukraine processing the war?

Our Russia correspondent Owen Matthews writes in this week’s Spectator that he has been stunned at how easily …

00:39:52 | Thu 14 Apr 2022

Table Talk: Michael Heath

Michael Heath is a British strip cartoonist and illustrator and has been working nonstop since the 1950s. He has been cartoon editor of The Spectator since 1991. On the podcast, he talks to Lara and …

00:34:56 | Tue 12 Apr 2022

Spectator Out Loud: Katy Balls, Michael Bryant and Michael Simmons

On this week's episode, we'll hear from Katy Balls on the changing face of No.10. (00:49)

Next, Michael Bryant on the history of War Crimes. (06:16)

And finally, Michael Simmons on Nicola Sturgeon’s se…

00:19:36 | Sat 09 Apr 2022

Women With Balls: the Arlene Foster Edition

Arlene Foster is the former first minister of Northern Ireland and was the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party from 2015 to 2021. She was the first woman to hold either position. Arlene moved int…

00:35:44 | Fri 08 Apr 2022

The Edition: The politics of war crimes

In this week’s episode: Is Putin guilty of war crimes?

For this week’s cover piece, The Spectator’s Editor Fraser Nelson looks at the risks and rewards of labelling Vladimir Putin and Russian soldiers…

00:41:47 | Thu 07 Apr 2022

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