Best of the Spectator
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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 2368
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
Women With Balls: Lynn Barber
Lynn Barber is an award-winning journalist known for her incisive interviews and her best-selling books An Education and How to Improve Your Man in Bed. On this episode, she talks to Katy about her l…
00:26:55 |
Fri 11 Oct 2019
The Spectator Podcast: will there be a deal?
As the clock ticks down to the European Council, can Boris get a last minute deal with the EU (00:35)? Plus, is Extinction Rebellion just the latest iteration of millenarianism (18:25)? And last, wha…
00:38:49 |
Thu 10 Oct 2019
Spectator Books: China's founding sisters
In this week’s Spectator Books podcast Sam's guest is Jung Chang — whose latest book is the gripping story of three sisters whose political differences put the Mitford even the Johnson clans in persp…
00:36:14 |
Wed 09 Oct 2019
Table Talk: with Isabel Vincent
Isabel Vincent is an author and Canadian investigative journalist for the New York Post. Her book, 'Dinner with Edward', charts the unlikely friendship she struck up with her recently widowed ninety-…
00:24:45 |
Tue 08 Oct 2019
Coffee House Shots: is Boris Johnson's Brexit deal dead?
With Katy Balls and James Forsyth.
Presented by Fraser Nelson.
Coffee House Shots is a series of podcasts on British politics from the Spectator's political team and special guests. Brought to you dail…
Presented by Fraser Nelson.
Coffee House Shots is a series of podcasts on British politics from the Spectator's political team and special guests. Brought to you dail…
00:20:56 |
Mon 07 Oct 2019
Holy Smoke: the strange religion of cryptocurrency
In this week's episode of Holy Smoke Damian is joined by Jamie Bartlett, one of the world’s leading experts on the dark web, radical politics and technology, whose gripping podcast series The Missing…
00:31:05 |
Sun 06 Oct 2019
Coffee House Shots: is Ireland taking Boris's Brexit proposal seriously?
With Pat Leahy, Political Editor of the Irish Times, and James Forsyth.
Presented by Fraser Nelson.
Coffee House Shots is a series of podcasts on British politics from the Spectator's political team an…
Presented by Fraser Nelson.
Coffee House Shots is a series of podcasts on British politics from the Spectator's political team an…
00:16:46 |
Sat 05 Oct 2019
Americano: could impeachment backfire on the Democrats?
With Daniel McCarthy, Contributing Editor of Spectator USA and Editor of Modern Age.
Americano is a series of in-depth discussions on American politics with the best pundits stateside. Presented by Fr…
Americano is a series of in-depth discussions on American politics with the best pundits stateside. Presented by Fr…
00:30:25 |
Fri 04 Oct 2019
The Spectator Podcast: what happened to civilised debate?
As the debate about violent language in Westminster rumbles on, have MPs accidentally stumbled on to something? In this week’s episode, we take a look at what’s happened to civilised debate with peop…
00:43:38 |
Thu 03 Oct 2019
Spectator Books: who was Susan Sontag?
Sam's guest in this week’s books podcast is Benjamin Moser, author of an acclaimed new biography of one of America’s most celebrated (and controversial) intellectuals of the twentieth century: Sontag…
00:37:48 |
Wed 02 Oct 2019
Coffee House Shots: Live at Conservative Party Conference
With former Justice Secretary David Gauke, Director of CER Charles Grant, James Forsyth, Katy Balls and Fraser Nelson.
Please accept our apologies for the low volume of this podcast, due to the venue'…
Please accept our apologies for the low volume of this podcast, due to the venue'…
00:46:54 |
Tue 01 Oct 2019
Podcast Special: is plastic the enemy?
Is plastic the enemy? To watch Blue Planet and listen to Greta Thunberg, you might think so. But there are some things that plastic simply does better than the alternatives, which are not necessarily…
00:31:42 |
Mon 30 Sep 2019
Women With Balls: Liz Truss II
Liz Truss is the Secretary of State for International Trade and holds the Women and Equalities brief. In this special edition of Women With Balls for Conservative party conference, she talks about wh…
00:26:56 |
Sun 29 Sep 2019
Women With Balls: Margaret Hodge
Margaret Hodge is the Labour MP for Barking and Dagenham, and well-known for her role as former head of the Public Accounts Committee, in which she scrutinised senior civil servants and politicians a…
00:34:20 |
Fri 27 Sep 2019
The Spectator Podcast: is there any hope for Brexit?
This week, as Boris Johnson is hauled back into parliament, we ask – is Brexit ever going to happen (00:40)? Plus, what should London do about Riyadh (14:10)? And finally, we take a sneak peek into t…
00:36:43 |
Thu 26 Sep 2019
Spectator Books: Israeli short stories with Etgar Keret
This week’s podcast features the Israeli writer Etgar Keret, talking about his new collection of short stories Fly Already. Topics on the agenda: how an Israel writer can address the Holocaust, why o…
00:30:14 |
Wed 25 Sep 2019
Table Talk: with Jessie Burton
Jessie Burton is the bestselling author of The Miniaturist and The Muse. In this episode of Table Talk, she tells Lara and Livvy about growing up with her dad's packed lunches, the diet of a budding …
00:24:15 |
Tue 24 Sep 2019
Podcast Special: Scotland and Northern Ireland's Economic Disruptors
Martin Vander Weyer, our Business Editor, speaks to three leading businesspeople for Scotland and Northern Ireland about the Economic Disruptor finalists in this region. Tune in to find out more abou…
00:28:20 |
Mon 23 Sep 2019
That's Life: with Simon Evans
Comedian Simon Evans joins journalist Benedict Spence and comedy club founder Andy Shaw on a new podcast from Spectator Life. 'That's Life' is a sideways look at the events, people, words and ideas t…
00:34:08 |
Sun 22 Sep 2019
Warren vs Sanders: will she knock him out?
With John Rick MacArthur, president of Harpers Magazine.
Americano is a series of in-depth discussions on American politics with the best pundits stateside. Presented by Freddy Gray, editor of Spectat…
Americano is a series of in-depth discussions on American politics with the best pundits stateside. Presented by Freddy Gray, editor of Spectat…
00:16:00 |
Sat 21 Sep 2019
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