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UnHerd with Freddie Sayers

Freddie Sayers from online magazine UnHerd seeks out top scientists, writers, politicians and thinkers for in-depth interviews to try and help us work out what’s really going on. What started as an inquiry into the pandemic has broadened into a fascinating look at free speech, science, meaning and the ideas shaping our world.


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Update frequency
every 4 days
Average duration
41 minutes
Episodes
337
Years Active
2020 - 2025
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UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers speaks with journalist and author Matt Taibbi. A former …

00:45:02  |   Thu 04 Sep 2025
Lina Khan: How to break the monopoly machine

Lina Khan: How to break the monopoly machine

UnHerd’s US Editor Sohrab Ahmari interviews former Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan. As head of the Biden FTC, Khan shook up decades of corporate deference — suing Big Tech, targeting drug mi…

00:32:44  |   Sat 30 Aug 2025
Is this the Disenlightenment?

Is this the Disenlightenment?

UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers brings together two leading voices on the decline of reading and the future of literacy: Times columnist and cultural critic, James Marriott, and YouTuber and philosopher, Jar…

00:34:40  |   Wed 27 Aug 2025
Ukraine: Realist vs Idealist

Ukraine: Realist vs Idealist

UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers brings together two starkly opposed voices on the Ukraine war and the future of world order: John Mearsheimer, University of Chicago professor and leading realist, and Matthew…

01:16:11  |   Tue 19 Aug 2025
Tim Cook: Genius or villain?

Tim Cook: Genius or villain?

UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers speaks with journalist and author of new book Apple in China, Patrick McGee – who was the Financial Times’s principal Apple reporter from 2019 to 2023 – about the man at the c…

00:42:04  |   Tue 12 Aug 2025
Richard Dawkins: Why men and women are different

Richard Dawkins: Why men and women are different

UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers interviews renowned evolutionary biologist Professor Richard Dawkins about the enduring biological differences between men and women — and why recognising them remains essenti…

00:25:49  |   Thu 07 Aug 2025
DEBATE: Is Israel’s war in Gaza moral?

DEBATE: Is Israel’s war in Gaza moral?

Journalist Batya Ungar-Sargon and UnHerd US Editor Sohrab Ahmari discuss the MAGA pivot against Israel in recent weeks and the reasons for waning support for Netanyahu's war from the American Right.

00:43:47  |   Tue 05 Aug 2025
Kathleen Stock: Should we morally condemn Bonnie Blue?

Kathleen Stock: Should we morally condemn Bonnie Blue?

Philosopher and UnHerd writer Kathleen Stock joins Freddie Sayers to discuss one of the strangest and most revealing cultural moments of the year: the rise of Bonnie Blue, the OnlyFans pornstar at th…

00:31:39  |   Thu 31 Jul 2025
Lawrence Krauss: The new war on science

Lawrence Krauss: The new war on science

Freddie Sayers interviews renowned physicist and author Lawrence Krauss to explore how culture wars and ideological issues threaten science and his new book The War on Science—an anthology of essays …

00:46:51  |   Tue 29 Jul 2025
Patrick Christys: Is Britain facing a 'summer of riots'?

Patrick Christys: Is Britain facing a 'summer of riots'?

Freddie Sayers, UnHerd’s Editor-in-Chief, sits down with Patrick Christys, GB News journalist, fresh from his reporting on the ground in the Calais migrant camps, to probe their volatile dynamics and…

00:43:24  |   Fri 25 Jul 2025
Philosopher Todd McGowan: Can Superman save our dying culture?

Philosopher Todd McGowan: Can Superman save our dying culture?

UnHerd’s Florence Read sits down with Todd McGowan – philosopher, film theorist, and author of Pure Excess, Capitalism and the Commodity – to dissect the new Superman film and its deeper political, p…

00:38:21  |   Fri 18 Jul 2025
Helen Thompson: Rare earths - the next war?

Helen Thompson: Rare earths - the next war?

Freddie Sayers, UnHerd’s Editor-in-Chief, sits down with Helen Thompson – Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge University and author of Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century – to dive into …

00:39:40  |   Thu 17 Jul 2025
Michael Tracey: Jeffrey Epstein and the end of the conspiracies

Michael Tracey: Jeffrey Epstein and the end of the conspiracies

Freddie Sayers, UnHerd’s Editor-in-Chief, interviews journalist Michael Tracey to unpack the recent Jeffrey Epstein files news, and the use and proliferation of conspiracy theories.


The Trump administ…

00:57:06  |   Wed 09 Jul 2025
Grindr CEO: Are gays behaving more like straights?

Grindr CEO: Are gays behaving more like straights?

Freddie Sayers, Editor-in-Chief of UnHerd, interviews George Arison, CEO of Grindr, tracing his remarkable journey from growing up in the Soviet Union to leading the world’s largest dating and hookup…

00:39:49  |   Mon 07 Jul 2025
Fiona Hill: The West must wake up

Fiona Hill: The West must wake up

Freddie Sayers, Editor-in-Chief of UnHerd, interviews Dr Fiona Hill, renowned Russia expert and former Senior Director for European and Russian Affairs in the first Trump administration (2017–2019). …

00:47:37  |   Fri 27 Jun 2025
Pentagon insider Dan Caldwell: How the hawks won

Pentagon insider Dan Caldwell: How the hawks won

UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers interviews Dan Caldwell about the recent US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites - Dan is the former senior adviser to U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Iraq War veteran, and a…

00:39:40  |   Sun 22 Jun 2025
Druid John Michael Greer: Trump, druidry and barbarian politics

Druid John Michael Greer: Trump, druidry and barbarian politics

UnHerd’s Florence Read sits down with John Michael Greer, prolific author of over 50 books, including The Druidry Handbook, The Long Descent, and The King in Orange, and former Grand Archdruid of the…

00:48:02  |   Thu 19 Jun 2025
DEBATE: John Mearsheimer & Yoram Hazony on Israel vs. Iran

DEBATE: John Mearsheimer & Yoram Hazony on Israel vs. Iran

In this two-part UnHerd TV episode, Editor-in-Chief Freddie Sayers delves into the volatile Iran-Israel crisis, presenting contrasting, thought-provoking analyses from two intellectual heavyweights.


I…

01:08:49  |   Tue 17 Jun 2025
Iain McGilchrist & Philip Goff: Is the universe conscious?

Iain McGilchrist & Philip Goff: Is the universe conscious?

In this captivating discussion, Iain and Philip ask what makes us who we are? Are we merely our brains, or does science only capture part of the human story? Is the universe conscious?


Dr. Iain McGilc…

01:30:45  |   Thu 12 Jun 2025
Los Angeles: Is the US headed to civil war?

Los Angeles: Is the US headed to civil war?

Freddie Sayers interviews reporter and documentary filmmaker Leighton Woodhouse for an on-the-ground account of the LA protests that followed ICE immigration raids. Woodhouse was in the thick of it—w…
00:28:43  |   Tue 10 Jun 2025
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