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
Military analyst: Is the Ukraine war headed for stalemate?
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers meets Michael Kofman.
Michael Kofman is the Director of the Russia Studies Program at the Center for Naval Analyses and a Fellow of the Center for a New American Security. He j…
Peter Hitchens: The Covid censors are moving on to Ukraine
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers speaks to journalist Peter Hitchens about a disturbing new Big Brother Watch report into UK government spying and censorship.
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Matthew B. Crawford: The perpetual state of emergency
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers chats with American philosopher Matthew B. Crawford in the UnHerd studio.
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The scientific case against facemasks
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers meets Dr. Margery Smelkinson and Dr. Leslie Bienen to discuss the efficacy of facemasks.
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David Sacks: The tech reset has only just begun
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers meets PayPal co-founder David Sacks.
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Brett Scott: Beware a cashless society
UnHerd's Flo Read mets Brett Scott, author of Cloud Money.
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UnHerd Christmas Special: Christmas is a time for chaos
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers and Flo Read sit down with founder of The Idler magazine, Tom Hodgkinson, to discuss the fraught history of the winter festival and the moral good in having a merry Christmas.
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Jay Bhattacharya: What I discovered at Twitter HQ
Freddie Sayers catches up with Dr Jay Bhattacharya about his recent meeting with Elon Musk at Twitter HQ, and what he discovered about the Twitter Files.
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Freddie deBoer: We should forgive Kanye West
UnHerd's Florence Read meets American author Freddie deBoer to discuss the curious case of Kanye West.
In the space of a few months Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, has gone from world-fam…
Vivek Ramaswamy: Elon Musk won't save us
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John Mearsheimer: The West is playing Russian roulette
Freddie Sayers meets political scientist John Mearsheimer, the world-famous proponent of realism in international relations.
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Ex-Ambassador speaks out: How Qatar funds extremism in the West
Qatar, a previously small and little-known country in the Middle East, has come to much wider public attention as the host of this year's World Cup. Its critics have focused on human rights abuses an…
David Sacks: Ukraine is turning into Woke War III
Freddie Sayers meets David Sacks.
When Elon Musk unveiled his notorious Ukraine peace proposal on Twitter last month, it caused quite the stir. For simply outlining the potential contours of a negotia…
John Gray Part II: Welcome to the era of tragic realism
Freddie Sayers meets John Gray in part two of a two-part interview.
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John Gray Part I: Revenge of the technocrats
Freddie Sayers meets philosopher John Gray.
John Gray was the prophet of the postliberal age, describing global capitalism as a false utopia as early as 1998. In his most recent writing, he has return…
Ivar Arpi: Why did Sweden turn Right-wing?
Freddie Sayers meets Ivar Arpi.
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Canada's euthanasia laws killed my brother
UnHerd's Flo Read meets Gary Nichols, whose brother, Alan Nichols, requested euthanasia and died by lethal injection in Canada in June 2019.
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Investigating the Florida vaccine study
Freddie Sayers meets Anders Hviid and Tracy Høeg.
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Michael Gove: Do Conservatives have a philosophy?
Freddie Sayers live in Birmingham with Michael Gove.
Freddie Sayers sat down with Michael Gove in Birmingham during the Conservative Party Conference for a special UnHerd Live event, asking: What’s th…
Jay Bhattacharya: The legal case against Anthony Fauci
Freddie Sayers discusses Jay Bhattacharya and Jenin Younes' lawsuit against the US federal government.
In October 2020, the Great Barrington Declaration was published by three academics - Jay Bhattach…