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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 2369
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
Women With Balls: with Mims Davies
Mims Davies is the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Employment and the MP for Mid Sussex. On the podcast, she talks to Katy Balls about how her family became lifelong carers when her dad was attacke…
00:36:19 |
Fri 05 Feb 2021
The Edition: Holy Relic
Are parish churches about to be devastated by bureaucracy and mismanagement? (00:55) What's the story behind the UK's vaccination efforts? (07:55) Has an intransigent union stopped firefighters from …
00:33:34 |
Thu 04 Feb 2021
The Book Club: Shalom Auslander on tragedy, Anne Frank and cannibalism
In this week’s Book Club podcast Sam Leith is joined by one of the funniest writers working today. Shalom Auslander’s new novel is Mother For Dinner, which is set in perhaps the most oppressed minori…
00:40:40 |
Wed 03 Feb 2021
Table Talk: With Bip Ling
Bip Ling is a model, musician, food writer, visual artist and DJ. On the podcast, she tells Lara and Liv about being inspired by her grandmother's Indian cooking, eating as a model, and why macaroni …
00:20:38 |
Tue 02 Feb 2021
The Week in 60 Minutes: EU tantrum and hotel quarantine
On this week's episode, Andrew Neil is joined by author and historian Sir Anthony Seldon; former Director of Immunisation at the Department of Health David Salisbury; and a team of Spectator journali…
01:03:54 |
Sun 31 Jan 2021
Spectator Out Loud: Matthew Lynn, Anthony Seldon and Sam Leith
On this week's episode, Matthew Lynn describes the first great geopolitical battle of the century: the vaccine wars. (00:40) Plus, Anthony Seldon makes his case for a museum of British premierships. …
00:22:19 |
Sat 30 Jan 2021
Americano: Has wallstreetbets changed the stock market forever?
Freddy Gray talks to Joe Weisenthal, co-host of the Odd Lots podcast and presenter of What'd You Miss on Bloomberg TV, about the GameStop short squeeze. Where did wallstreetbets start, have they revo…
00:27:29 |
Fri 29 Jan 2021
The Edition: Vaccine wars
Why has the vaccine rollout turned nasty? (00:45) What's the sex abuse scandal rocking France's elite? (16:55) Have artists run out of new ideas? (28:35)
With Daily Telegraph columnist Matthew Lynn; s…
With Daily Telegraph columnist Matthew Lynn; s…
00:38:41 |
Thu 28 Jan 2021
The Book Club: How land shaped the modern world
Sam's guest on this week's Book Club podcast is the writer Simon Winchester, whose new book takes on one of the biggest subjects on earth: earth. Land: How The Hunger For Ownership Made The Modern Wo…
00:42:57 |
Wed 27 Jan 2021
Chinese Whispers: the Chinese backlash against Big Tech
In November, the IPO of Jack Ma's fintech company Ant Financial was abruptly stopped by Chinese regulators (listen to the episode of Chinese Whispers from then here). But while the move has been seen…
00:34:03 |
Mon 25 Jan 2021
The Week in 60 Minutes: Vaccine reluctance and Navalny's homecoming
On this week's episode, Andrew Neil is joined by Trevor Philips, managing director of Webber and Phillips and columnist for The Times; author and journalist Owen Matthews; and a team of Spectator jou…
01:00:22 |
Sun 24 Jan 2021
Spectator Out Loud: Kate Andrews, Liam Kennedy and Jeremy Clarke
On this week's episode, Kate Andrews says the challenges of Joe Biden's administration go beyond governing. (00:35) Plus, Liam Kennedy explains the history of Irish-American identity. (09:25) Finally…
00:25:23 |
Sat 23 Jan 2021
Women With Balls: with Claire Williams
Claire Williams OBE is the former Deputy Team Principal of Williams, family-run the Formula One racing team set up by her father, Frank Williams. On the podcast, she talks about what it was like to b…
00:37:18 |
Fri 22 Jan 2021
The Edition: Biden time
Can Joe Biden unite America? (01:05) Why is the UK's vaccine rollout its most important economic policy? (12:10) And how can re-enactments bring history to life? (22:15)
With The Spectator's economics…
With The Spectator's economics…
00:34:36 |
Thu 21 Jan 2021
The Book Club: bereaving in the time of Covid
Sam Leith's guests on this week's Book Club podcast are the writer and Women's Equality Party co-founder Catherine Mayer, and her mother, the arts publicist Anne Mayer Bird. They are mother and daugh…
00:42:47 |
Wed 20 Jan 2021
Table Talk: With Alison Roman
Alison Roman is an American food writer, cook, and author of New York Times bestseller Nothing Fancy. On the podcast, she tells Lara and Livvy about the recipes she learnt from her mum, how she plans…
00:23:32 |
Tue 19 Jan 2021
The Week in 60 Minutes: Big Tech's supremacy and Covid's origins
On this episode, Andrew Neil is joined by Peter Greenberger, former head of political advertising at Google and Twitter; Francis Balloux, director of UCL's Genetics Institute; Anshel Pfeffer, a corre…
01:04:33 |
Sun 17 Jan 2021
Spectator Out Loud: Lionel Shriver, Matthew Parris and Jonathan Beswick
On this week's episode, Lionel Shriver says we believe what we want to believe. (00:45) Then, Matthew Parris says Peter Mandelson, infamously nicknamed the Prince of Darkness, could have been prime m…
00:24:50 |
Sat 16 Jan 2021
Americano: are Boomers to blame for today's chaos?
Helen Andrews is Senior Editor at the American Conservative and author of Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster. On this episode, Freddy Gray interviews her about the…
00:20:01 |
Fri 15 Jan 2021
The Edition: The tech supremacy
Joe Biden won the US election, but is Big Tech really in power? (00:45) Churches are allowed to open during lockdown, but should they? (13:20) And can comfort eating and cosy socks replace human conn…
00:35:27 |
Thu 14 Jan 2021
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