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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 2370
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
How bad was President Biden’s first year?
Freddy Gray and Lionel Shriver discuss Joe Biden's first year at the helm of the United States, and whether he is capable of tackling the challenges poised by Vladimir Putin, rampant inflation and hi…
00:34:48 |
Fri 21 Jan 2022
The Edition: The collapse
In this week’s episode: Will the Red Wall crush Boris Johnson?
In this week’s Spectator, our political editor James Forsyth and our deputy political editor Katy Balls report on the plot to oust the P…
00:39:24 |
Thu 20 Jan 2022
The Book Club: Bacon in Moscow
In this week's Book Club podcast, my guest is the gallerist James Birch - whose new book Bacon In Moscow describes how he achieved the seemingly impossible: taking an exhibition of Francis Bacon's wo…
00:25:44 |
Wed 19 Jan 2022
Table Talk: with Ed Smith
Ed Smith is a food writer and chef who started his acclaimed blog Rocket and Squash while he was working as a solicitor. On today’s podcast, he tells Liv and Lara about how his passion for good food …
00:25:16 |
Tue 18 Jan 2022
Spectator Out Loud: Katy Balls, Nicholas Farrell, Lisse Garnett
On this week's episode, we'll hear from Katy Balls on who may take Boris Johnson’s place if he resigns. (00:49)
Next, Nicholas Farrell on the potential return of Silvio Berlusconi. (06:21)
And finally…
00:23:07 |
Sat 15 Jan 2022
Women With Balls: with Michelle Donelan
Michelle Donelan was elected in 2015 as a Conservative MP for Chippenham. Since then, she has been re-elected twice and has risen in her political roles. Starting as a member of the education select …
00:23:42 |
Fri 14 Jan 2022
The Edition: Is it over?
In this week’s episode: Is Boris Johnson done for?
In this week’s Spectator cover story, our political editor James Forsyth and our deputy political editor Katy Balls write about Boris Johnson’s peri…
00:34:19 |
Thu 13 Jan 2022
The Book Club: Everything, All The Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern
This week's Book Club podcast addresses one of the most misunderstood and vilified concepts in the culture wars: postmodernism. How did this arcane theoretical position escape from academia to become…
00:41:07 |
Wed 12 Jan 2022
Why does China care about the Olympics?
'If table tennis set the stage for China’s international diplomacy, then volleyball rebuilt the nation’s confidence', ran one article in the People's Daily around the time of the 2016 Rio Olympics. S…
00:41:28 |
Mon 10 Jan 2022
Spectator Out Loud: Douglas Murray, Nyrola Elimä, Theo Hobson
On this week's episode, we’ll hear from Douglas Murray on why he thinks that the Coronavirus is over. (00:51)
Next, Nyrola Elimä on her family’s experiences as Uighurs living under the rule of the CCP…
00:26:42 |
Sat 08 Jan 2022
Americano: Will Donald Trump run again?
2022 has only just begun but a lot of minds in American politics are already looking towards the next presidential election in 2024. For the Republicans, the big question is will Donald Trump be thei…
00:34:34 |
Fri 07 Jan 2022
The Edition: Rip it up
In this week’s episode: Is it time to rip up the idea of vaccine passports?
In The Spectator’s cover story this week, our economics editor Kate Andrews writes about her disdain for the idea of vaccin…
00:37:40 |
Thu 06 Jan 2022
Americano: Has America learnt anything from the Capitol riot?
It's been one year since a large number of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol building in Washington DC to try and prevent the certification of the 2020 presidential election. There are still many …
00:29:52 |
Thu 06 Jan 2022
The Book Club: The Women of Rothschild
Sam's guest in this week's Book Club podcast is Natalie Livingstone – whose new book The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World's Most Famous Dynasty gives the distaff dish on the banking…
00:45:42 |
Wed 05 Jan 2022
Table Talk: with Poppy Cooks
Poppy O'Toole (known online as Poppy_Cooks) is a Michelin-trained chef who lost her job in March of 2020 due to Covid. To pass the time during lockdown she started posting cooking videos on TikTok. H…
00:23:49 |
Tue 04 Jan 2022
Women With Balls: with Camilla Tominey
Camilla Tominey is known on both sides of the pond as one of the world's go-to Royal correspondents. She began her career in journalism at the Hemel Hempstead Gazette before moving to cover the Royal…
00:35:51 |
Fri 31 Dec 2021
Podcast special: Has technology helped the Northern Ireland border?
Had Covid-19 not continued to dominate the headlines this year, there's little doubt that the outcomes of the Brexit deal would have been at the forefront of our policy discussions. Britain has left …
00:31:37 |
Fri 24 Dec 2021
Holy Smoke: Why the Catholic Church is facing chaos this Christmas
Pope Francis renewed his campaign against the Latin Mass this month, permitting his liturgy chief Archbishop Arthur Roche to issue all manner of threats to clergy celebrating the ancient liturgy. Thi…
00:14:28 |
Thu 23 Dec 2021
Heat pumps and hydrogen boilers: making a house a green home
What are the greener solutions for heating Britain's homes? The government estimates that heating residential homes accounts for around 15 per cent of the UK's greenhouse gas emissions. For this reas…
00:31:03 |
Thu 23 Dec 2021
Improving the status quo: can severe asthma be better treated?
Everyone knows somebody who has asthma. 5.4 million people in the UK are currently receiving treatment and 200,000 of them have severe asthma. A form of the condition that doesn’t typically respond w…
00:28:19 |
Wed 22 Dec 2021
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