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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 2372
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
The Edition: Hospital pass
In this week’s episode: Is the current NHS crisis a bug or a feature?
In the Spectator’s cover story this week, our economics editor Kate Andrews writes about the state of the NHS and why even though …
00:40:57 |
Thu 02 Dec 2021
Podcast special: money through the generations
Money is not generally discussed at the dinner table, and inheritance even less so. So, do parents do enough to pass down responsible personal finance habits to the next generation? And if not, how c…
00:29:01 |
Thu 02 Dec 2021
The Book Club: Judy Golding
This year Faber and Faber started the project of republishing the late Nobel Laureate William Golding's back catalogue -- starting with Pincher Martin, The Inheritors and The Spire. Sam is joined by …
00:35:27 |
Wed 01 Dec 2021
Chinese Whispers: what is it to be 'Chinese'?
Sun Yat-sen was the founding father of China's first republic, when the Qing dynasty was overthrown. Here he sits, with his successor Chiang Kai-Shek standing behind. They were two among many intelle…
00:41:21 |
Mon 29 Nov 2021
The Week in 60 Minutes: Covid clashes and China's 'missing' mistress
Katy Balls speaks to broadcaster Jeremy Vine; Oxford ethics professor Dominic Wilkinson; former Liberal Democrats leader Vince Cable; Penguin books editor Henry Eliot; and Spectator journalists Cindy…
01:04:13 |
Sun 28 Nov 2021
Spectator Out Loud: Douglas Murray, Henry Eliot, Sam Holmes
On this week's episode, we’ll hear from Douglas Murray who says that the case of Kyle Rittenhouse shows nothing in America matters more than your identity. (00:55)
Next, Henry Eliot wonders, what make…
00:20:38 |
Sat 27 Nov 2021
The Edition: The Covid revolts
In this week’s episode: Just who is protesting new Covid rules in Europe?
In The Spectator this week we have three articles that cover the riots and protests all over Europe about new covid policies.…
00:32:36 |
Thu 25 Nov 2021
Americano: will cloud computing create a new economic boom?
Freddy Grays talks to Mark P Mills, the energy and tech expert at the Manhattan Institute think tank about his new book 'The Cloud Revolution'.
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00:30:29 |
Wed 24 Nov 2021
The Book Club: Paul Muldoon
On this week's Book Club podcast, Sam is joined by one of the most distinguished poets in the language, Paul Muldoon, to talk about his new book Howdie-Skelp. He tells Sam of his unfashionable belief…
00:39:12 |
Wed 24 Nov 2021
Table Talk: with Theo Fennell
Theo Fennell is a jewellery maker. He has been designing and making jewellery in Fulham, London for over forty years and in 2008 founded The Original Design Partnership. On the podcast, he talks to L…
00:28:19 |
Tue 23 Nov 2021
Spectator Out Loud: Katy Balls, Lionel Shriver, Nick Newman
On this week's episode, we’ll hear from Katy Balls on the political power of Angela Rayner. (00:49)
Then Lionel Shriver on the unscientific divisions between the vaxxed and unvaxxed. (06:52)
And finall…
00:22:12 |
Sat 20 Nov 2021
Americano: can the University of Austin shake up American education?
Freddy Gray talks to Pano Kanelos, the president of the newly announced University of Austin, about what his project is hoping to achieve.
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00:17:13 |
Fri 19 Nov 2021
Women With Balls: with Sarah Vine
Sarah Vine is a columnist for the Daily Mail and formerly wife of Cabinet minister Michael Gove. On the podcast, Sarah talks to Katy about growing up in Italy, working her way up tabloid journalism (…
00:34:22 |
Fri 19 Nov 2021
The Edition: Toil and trouble
In this week’s episode: Are migrants the new munitions?
In our cover story this week, our political editor James Forsyth looks at the growing troubles in Eastern Europe and how this small part of the…
00:37:31 |
Thu 18 Nov 2021
The Book Club: Tessa Dunlop
Sam's guest on this week's Book Club podcast is the historian Tessa Dunlop. Tessa's new book is Army Girls: The Secrets and Stories of Military Service from the Final Few Women Who Fought In World Wa…
00:47:21 |
Wed 17 Nov 2021
Chinese Whispers: is 'common prosperity' the road to common poverty?
Deng Xiaoping used to say, 'let some people get rich first'. Four decades on from the start of his economic experiment with marketisation, Xi Jinping is, these days, talking about 'common prosperity'…
00:31:10 |
Tue 16 Nov 2021
Who was the best American president?
Freddy Gray talks to Iain Dale about his new book 'The Presidents', which takes a look at every holder of the office from George Washington to Joe Biden.
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00:16:34 |
Mon 15 Nov 2021
Spectator Out Loud: Mary Wakefield, Lloyd Evans, Tanya Gold
On this week's episode, we’ll hear from Mary Wakefield about the pattern of misandry in modern media. (00:48)
Then Lloyd Evans on the British tradition of the pub theatre. (07:19)
And finally, Tanya Go…
Then Lloyd Evans on the British tradition of the pub theatre. (07:19)
And finally, Tanya Go…
00:17:28 |
Sat 13 Nov 2021
Has fame eaten America alive?
Freddy Gray talks to Michael Wolff about his latest book 'Too Famous', and looks back at how the quest for fame has affected politics over the last two decades.
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00:21:45 |
Fri 12 Nov 2021
The Edition: Court of Chaos
In this week’s episode: Who is advising the PM?
In our cover story this week, our editor Fraser Nelson takes a deep dive into No. 10 politics and finds a court of chaos inside. With a large parliamen…
00:43:24 |
Thu 11 Nov 2021
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