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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 2369
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
The Book Club: What would Orwell be without Nineteen Eighty-Four?
In the first Book Club podcast of the year, we’re marking the moment that George Orwell comes out of copyright. I’m joined by two distinguished Orwellians — D. J. Taylor and Dorian Lynskey — to talk …
00:43:18 |
Wed 13 Jan 2021
Chinese Whispers: What's behind Beijing's treatment of the Uyghurs?
Since 2017 a succession of re-education camps have sprung up across Xinjiang, the home of the Uyghur people. It's estimated that one in ten Uyghur people are incarcerated to be subjected to patriotic…
00:51:15 |
Mon 11 Jan 2021
The Week in 60 Minutes: Trump's mob and the vaccine rollout
On this episode, Andrew Neil is joined by Jeremy Hunt, chair of the health and social care committee and former foreign secretary, alongside a team of Spectator journalists.
This week, we discuss the …
This week, we discuss the …
01:00:23 |
Sun 10 Jan 2021
Spectator Out Loud: Matthew Lynn, Will Knowland and Mary Wellesley
On this week's episode, author and financial columnist Matthew Lynn begins by arguing that the EU has already botched its Covid vaccine rollout. (00:25) Then, Will Knowland, formerly an English teach…
00:17:54 |
Sat 09 Jan 2021
Women With Balls: with Christina Lamb
Christina Lamb is an award-winning journalist who has reported on conflicts and politics across the world, for more than three decades. Her latest book is Our Bodies, Their Battlefields, highlighting…
00:54:48 |
Fri 08 Jan 2021
The Edition: A race against time
Coronavirus vaccines are now being distributed across the world, but what are the challenges posed by its delivery? (01:30) Is Boris Johnson the SNP's greatest weapon? (13:55) And is Prince Harry bec…
00:34:05 |
Thu 07 Jan 2021
Table Talk: with Leroy Logan
Leroy Logan is a former superintendent at the Metropolitan Police, former chair of the Black Police Association, and author of Closing Ranks: My Life as a Cop. On the podcast, he tells Lara and Livvy…
00:29:07 |
Tue 05 Jan 2021
Holy Smoke: Goodbye to Catholic Ireland
Damian's guest, the celebrated Irish journalist, broadcaster and playwright Mary Kenny, offers a nuanced analysis of the powerful and paradoxical world in which she grew up: one in which Catholic cle…
00:45:36 |
Mon 04 Jan 2021
Is a high-spending, high-debt economy the new normal?
After a year battling coronavirus, the UK's debt now totals more than £2 trillion. In an effort to keep the economy afloat, the Treasury has paid wages, given tax relief, and even paid for people to …
00:35:15 |
Sun 27 Dec 2020
Americano: year in review with Douglas Murray
Douglas Murray, the author of The Madness of Crowds, joins the last Americano of the year. On the episode, he and Freddy chat through the most important trends and events of the year, from China and …
00:36:58 |
Thu 24 Dec 2020
Chinese Whispers: Is China turning away from the world?
2020 is drawing to a close but none of us will forget this year anytime soon. For China, has it also been a watershed year? Western rhetoric hasn’t been so hawkish on China in a very long time, with …
00:23:00 |
Mon 21 Dec 2020
The Week in 60 Minutes: Are Covid restrictions based on data?
On this episode, Andrew Neil is joined by Professor Tim Spector, principal investigator of ZOE at Kings College London; Andrew Wilson, former SNP finance spokesperson and founding partner of Charlott…
01:02:11 |
Sun 20 Dec 2020
Spectator Out Loud: Fraser Nelson, Matt Ridley, Ian Rankin and Cressida Bonas
For the Christmas triple issue, there are four authors in this week's Spectator Out Loud. Fraser Nelson reads the leading article in our Christmas edition; Matt Ridley talks about how mRNA vaccines c…
00:34:42 |
Sat 19 Dec 2020
Holy Smoke: a conversation with Sir James MacMillan on Beethoven's spirituality
This week Beethoven celebrates his 250th birthday. To mark the day, Damian Thompson talks to the composer Sir James MacMillan about how Beethoven's faith impacted his music.
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00:34:01 |
Fri 18 Dec 2020
The Edition: The Christmas Special
How will the UK's economy recover from Covid-19, and what has the pandemic revealed about the West? (01:20) Was 2020 the year we dealt a mortal blow to future viruses? (15:05) And finally, what makes…
00:48:44 |
Thu 17 Dec 2020
The Book Club: Remembering John Le Carre
In this week's Book Club podcast, we remember the great John Le Carre. I'm joined by one of the late writer's longest standing friends, the novelist Nicholas Shakespeare. He tells me about Le Carre's…
00:36:06 |
Wed 16 Dec 2020
Podcast special: can Britain really become 'the Saudi Arabia of wind power'?
Last month the government released its ten point plan for what it dubs 'The Green Industrial Revolution'. At the top of the list was offshore wind, with a pledge to produce enough power for every hom…
00:27:13 |
Wed 16 Dec 2020
Table Talk: with Jeffrey Archer
Jeffrey Archer is a novelist, former politician, and peer of the realm. He has sold 275 million copies of his books - in 97 countries and more than 30 languages. On the podcast, he tells Lara and Liv…
00:20:57 |
Tue 15 Dec 2020
The Week in 60 Minutes: Brexit deadlock and Chinese vaccines
On this week’s episode, Andrew Neil is joined by Philip Rycroft, permanent secretary of the Department for Exiting the European Union from 2017 to 2019; Stephen Bush, political editor of the New Stat…
01:09:19 |
Sun 13 Dec 2020
Spectator Out Loud: Dominic Green, Tanya Gold, Lionel Shriver and Bruce Anderson
On this week's episode, the Spectator's deputy US editor, Dominic Green, argues that if Joe Biden departs from Donald Trump’s foreign policy, American interests will be harmed. (01:00) After, Tanya G…
00:33:22 |
Sat 12 Dec 2020
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