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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 2370
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
The Book Club: Marie Le Conte on the misfit MPs of the past
Sam's guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is the political journalist Marie Le Conte, whose new book is Honourable Misfits: A Brief History of Britain's Weirdest, Unluckiest and Most Outrageous MP…
00:30:08 |
Wed 21 Jul 2021
Spectator Briefing: can global Britain be a green Britain?
Britain is already making moves on the global stage to back a green agenda, including calls to slash tariffs on ‘green goods’ and to hold countries responsible for heavily polluting practices. But as…
00:58:43 |
Mon 19 Jul 2021
Spectator Out Loud: Olivia Potts, Rory Sutherland and Tanya Gold
On this week's episode, Olivia Potts says angry chefs could soon get their comeuppance. (00:56) Then, Rory Sutherland says over-qualification is leading to collective idiocy. (06:28) And finally, Tan…
00:13:55 |
Sat 17 Jul 2021
The Edition: Nanny Boris
What are the pros and cons of vaccine passports? (00:33) Also on the podcast: is it time for restaurant kitchens to ditch their toxic masculinity? (18:00) And finally... Cricket, what does the new to…
00:42:18 |
Fri 16 Jul 2021
The Book Club: The Day of the Jackal at 50
Sam's guest in this week’s book club podcast is Frederick Forsyth, whose classic thriller The Day of the Jackal has been in print for 50 years this summer. He talks about banging it out in a few week…
00:30:01 |
Wed 14 Jul 2021
Can the City of London be the world’s first to deliver climate commitments?
The way the City of London measures success is constantly changing. A new generation of discerning consumers has skyrocketed the importance of environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) to…
00:56:19 |
Tue 13 Jul 2021
China's 'snowflake generation'
Tangping, or 'lying flat', is a new lifestyle tempting China's millennials. Describing a minimalist stress-free life where one opts out of a career and raising family, lying flat is the young person'…
00:28:46 |
Mon 12 Jul 2021
Spectator Out Loud: Revd Marcus Walker, Douglas Murray and Petronella Wyatt
On this week's episode:
Revd Marcus Walker shares his concern and disapproval at being described by the Church of England as an 'Key Limiting Factor' (00:26).
Revd Marcus Walker shares his concern and disapproval at being described by the Church of England as an 'Key Limiting Factor' (00:26).
Then Douglas Murray looks at the tricky …
00:24:00 |
Sat 10 Jul 2021
Women With Balls: Trudy Harrison
Trudy Harrison is the Conservative MP for Copeland and currently works as the Prime Minster's Parliamentary Private Secretary. On the podcast, she talks about how when she was younger she always thou…
00:37:35 |
Fri 09 Jul 2021
The Edition: How China bought Cambridge
What level of control does China have at Cambridge University? (00:48) Also on the podcast: Will the Church of England’s new plans for modernisation leave us with an institution we even recognise? (1…
00:41:05 |
Thu 08 Jul 2021
The Book Club: Adam Roberts & Lisa Duggan on Ayn Rand
Who is John Galt? This week's Book Club podcast looks at the life, work and personality of Ayn Rand, probably the most influential writer you've never read. A favourite of our new Health Secretary, t…
00:41:24 |
Wed 07 Jul 2021
Table Talk: Jack Whitehall
Jack Whitehall is an actor and comedian, however during the pandemic he has also started a food blog, FoodSlut. On the episode, he talks to Lara Prendergast and Olivia Potts about his public love of …
00:18:14 |
Tue 06 Jul 2021
Aftershock: The NHS
Building Back is a limited series by award winning journalist Isabel Hardman. In every episode she asks how we can fix the damage caused by the pandemic to a different part of British society.
In thi…
In thi…
00:42:32 |
Mon 05 Jul 2021
Spectator Out Loud: Isabel Oakeshott, Melanie McDonagh and Jon Day
On this week's episode:
Journalist Isabel Oakeshott on how she let the Matt Hancock scandal slip through her fingers a week before it turned up in The Sun (00:59). We’ll also be joined by Melanie McD…
Journalist Isabel Oakeshott on how she let the Matt Hancock scandal slip through her fingers a week before it turned up in The Sun (00:59). We’ll also be joined by Melanie McD…
00:14:59 |
Sat 03 Jul 2021
The Edition: Staged
19 July is approaching but what will life after ‘freedom day’ will look like? (01:19) Also on the podcast: what will Angela Merkel's departure mean for the EU? (14:12) And as many people fled the cit…
00:36:56 |
Thu 01 Jul 2021
The Book Club: Anne Sebba on the life and death of Ethel Rosenberg
In this week’s Book Club podcast Sam's guest is Anne Sebba - whose Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy tells the story of the first woman in US history to be executed for a crime other than murder. O…
00:47:02 |
Wed 30 Jun 2021
Americano: Is vaccine encouragement becoming vaccinate coercion?
From jabs for joints, to peer pressure in schools, to free lap dances, it seems the power that be are getting more and more aggressive in their mission of getting everyone jabbed as quickly as possib…
00:26:56 |
Mon 28 Jun 2021
Chinese Whispers: Hong Kong's National Security Law, one year on
In the 12 months since the enactment of the National Security Law on Hong Kong, opposition leaders, journalists and activists have been arrested; reforms on education and elections begun; and last we…
00:34:46 |
Mon 28 Jun 2021
Spectator Out Loud: Jessica Douglas-Home, Paul Wood, Andrew Watts
On this week's episode, Jessica Douglas-Home wants to know why modern British architecture is just so ugly. (01:03) After, Paul Wood warns what Western withdrawal means for Afghanistan (09:23) and fi…
00:23:12 |
Sat 26 Jun 2021
Women With Balls: Katie Perrior
Katie Perrior is a public relations expert who co-founded inHouse Communications. She's worked for two prime ministers and several senior Tory MPs, and today her clients include the spiritsmaker Diag…
00:35:22 |
Fri 25 Jun 2021
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