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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 2370
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
Are we there yet? Realising the future of electric cars
Unreliable, slow and you'll never find a charging point - those are some of the things that come to mind when thinking about electric vehicles for many drivers. But are these outdated myths? The gove…
00:40:41 |
Tue 23 Mar 2021
Chinese Whispers: Is anyone still communist in the Chinese Communist Party?
'Scratch a communist, you’ll find a nationalist underneath’, Professor Kerry Brown, the director of the Lau China Institute at King's College London, tells me on this episode. Together with Professor…
00:40:59 |
Mon 22 Mar 2021
The Week in 60 Minutes: SNP censorship and lockdown's legal limits
On this week's episode, Andrew Neil is joined by former Supreme Court judge Jonathan Sumption; Spectator contributor Melanie McDonagh; Conservative MP David Davis; and a team of Spectator journalists…
01:04:43 |
Sun 21 Mar 2021
Spectator Out Loud: Leading article, Douglas Murray and Philip Hensher
On this episode, Cindy Yu starts by reading the leader - The Spectator has a fight on it's hands as the Scottish Crown Office threatens a six-figure fine. (01:30) Then, Douglas Murray says the Church…
00:25:30 |
Sat 20 Mar 2021
Women With Balls: with Elif Shafak
Elif Shafak is an award-winning Turkish-British novellist, essayist and activist. On the episode, she talks to Katy about what it was like to grow up in conservative Ankara under the strong women in …
00:39:11 |
Fri 19 Mar 2021
The Edition: Unopposed
Is Keir Starmer becoming irrelevant? (00:50) Do the Oscars really celebrate the best that film has to offer? (15:55) Jordon Peterson is back with his new book, Beyond Order, but is it beyond readable…
00:42:08 |
Thu 18 Mar 2021
The Book Club: The Interior Silence
In this week’s Book Club podcast, Sam's guest is the former editor of the Today Programme, Sarah Sands. Sarah tells him how an addiction to the buzz of news and gossip gave way in her to a fascinatio…
00:35:32 |
Wed 17 Mar 2021
Table Talk: With Geordie Willis
Geordie Willis is the creative director and brand experiences director of Berry Brothers and Rudd, Britain's oldest wine merchants. He is the eighth generation of his family to work in the business, …
00:18:44 |
Tue 16 Mar 2021
The Week in 60 Minutes: Harry and Meghan's revenge
On this week's episode, Andrew Neil is joined by Dr Remi Adekoya, associate politics lecturer at the University of York; Spectator contributor Olenka Hamilton; Bloomberg's Javier Blas; and a team of …
01:04:39 |
Sun 14 Mar 2021
Anil Bhoyrul, Lionel Shriver and Melissa Kite
On this episode, Anil Bhoyrul starts by asking if it's racist to wonder what colour your child's skin will be. (01:05) Lionel Shriver is up next, and says the West has used China's totalitarian tacti…
00:19:53 |
Sat 13 Mar 2021
Americano: What do Americans really think about the royal family?
Freddy Gray talks to historian Patrick Allitt, the Cahoon Family Professor of American History at Emory University, about how much the Harry and Meghan interview has really cut through to the America…
00:19:19 |
Fri 12 Mar 2021
The Edition: Battle royal
Is it fair to blame Meghan for the Royal Family's problems? (00:55) Why is China censoring a book of Dante's poetry? (12:40) Would you go to moon? (24:50)
With The Spectator's US editor Freddy Gray; T…
With The Spectator's US editor Freddy Gray; T…
00:35:31 |
Thu 11 Mar 2021
The Book Club: Heavy Light
Sam's guest in this week's Book Club podcast is Horatio Clare - whose superb latest book is about going mad. Heavy Light: A Journey Through Madness, Mania and Healing, tells the story of Horatio's re…
00:35:46 |
Wed 10 Mar 2021
Chinese Whispers: the sacrifices and rewards of a Chinese-style education
Tiger mums and dads are infamous in the West, but in China the pressure is ramped up several times higher. From kindergarten to university, exams form the structure of a disciplined and competitive e…
00:31:39 |
Mon 08 Mar 2021
The Week in 60 Minutes: Working jabs and the Chancellor's fears
On this week's episode, Andrew Neil is joined by Sir David Spiegelhalter, a leading statistician from the University of Cambridge; Spectator contributor Stephen Daisley; Spectator contributor Jonatha…
01:10:49 |
Sun 07 Mar 2021
Spectator Out Loud: leading article, Kate Andrews and Rod Liddle
This week's episode features a reading of The Spectator's leading article, on how devolution has created a democratic deficit in Scotland (00:50); our economics correspondent Kate Andrews on what kee…
00:23:06 |
Sat 06 Mar 2021
Women With Balls: with Rachel Reeves
Rachel Reeves is the Labour MP for Leeds West and the shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. On the podcast, she talks to Katy about being a teen chess champion (pictured playing), going to a s…
00:40:15 |
Fri 05 Mar 2021
The Edition: Rishi's nightmare
Could a blip in inflation ruin the UK's economic recovery? (00:50) Why is support for the IRA becoming normalised? (12:20) What makes a great diarist? (31:15)
With The Spectator's economics correspond…
With The Spectator's economics correspond…
00:41:10 |
Thu 04 Mar 2021
The Book Club: How do we disagree?
The public conversation - especially on social media - is widely agreed to be of a dismally low quality. In this week’s Book Club podcast, Sam is joined by two people who have ideas about how we can …
00:51:07 |
Wed 03 Mar 2021
Table Talk: With Max Halley
Max Halley is one of Britain's pre-eminent sandwich aficionados. He is the founder of Max's Sandwich Shop, and the author of Max's Picnic Book. On the podcast, he tells Lara and Liv about being expos…
00:35:33 |
Tue 02 Mar 2021
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