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
Will the hard Right sweep Europe?
Freddie Sayers meets Ralph Schoellhammer.
The rise of the Christian, ultra-conservative candidate Giorgia Meloni in Italy marks a strange split in European politics. Post-Brexit Britain is now in the …
Cancelled for pro-peace street art
Florence Read meets cancelled street artist, Peter Seaton.
Earlier this month, a mural of two soldiers embracing, one Ukrainian and one Russian, appeared on the side of a building in Melbourne. It was…
The Charles III paradox: Anti-establishment King
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Clint Ehrlich: What I got wrong about Ukraine
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The great excess deaths mystery
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers is joined by Stuart McDonald to discuss the curious case of the UK's excess deaths.
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Thomas Fazi: Civil disobedience is coming
Freddie Sayers meets Thomas Fazi.
Faced with post-pandemic economic collapse, war in Ukraine and an unprecedented energy crisis, citizens of the UK and Europe are voicing their discontent. Via anti-go…
Wolfgang Streeck: The end of the German empire
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers speaks to economic historian Prof. Wolfgang Streeck about the crisis in Germany and its implications for the future of Europe.
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Lionel Shriver: We need to talk about Ezra Miller
Freddie Sayers meets Lionel Shriver.
When Lionel Shriver’s story of a troubled teenager, We Need to Talk About Kevin, was adapted for screen in 2011 it launched the career of young actor Ezra Miller.
I…
His wife's plea: The case for Julian Assange
Freddie Sayers meets Stella Moris, lawyer and wife of Julian Assange.
The case of Julian Assange, the Wikileaks founder who published huge troves of sensitive government documents and classified milit…
Slavoj Žižek: We are addicted to chaos
Florence Read meets Slavoj Žižek.
In his new book 'Surplus Enjoyment: A Guide for the Non-Perplexed', psychoanalyst and Marxist philosopher Slavoj Žižek argues that Western decadence has reached a poi…
David Fuller: What happened to Jordan Peterson?
Freddie Sayers meets David Fuller.
Followers of the clinical psychologist and now world-famous member of the ‘Intellectual Dark Web’, Jordan Peterson, have noted a radical change in his video style in…
Aella meets Louise Perry: Was the sexual revolution a mistake?
Lord Frost: Liz Truss is the change candidate
Alex Jones documentary banned from social media
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How the West brought economic disaster on itself
Freddie Sayers speaks to financial analyst Louis Gave about the West's self-made economic crisis.
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What Boris Johnson's resignation really means
After the resignation of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and with a leadership election looming, UnHerd convened some regular contributors for an emergency roundtable.
Has the populist experiment…
Martin Kulldorff: Lessons from Sweden for the next pandemic
When the COVID-19 pandemic began and most of the world went into lockdown, Scandinavia bucked the status-quo by keeping their society almost completely open. At the time, there was a sense that Swede…
Crypto CEO: My stand against woke workers
Freddie Sayers meets Jesse Powell.
Jesse Powell is the CEO of Kraken, one of the largest crypto currency exchanges in the world.
He has been in the headlines this week for publishing a decidedly libert…
Aris Roussinos: Inside the nationalist militia on Ukraine’s frontline
Freddie Sayers speaks to UnHerd’s Aris Roussinos, reporting from the frontline of the war in Ukraine.
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Silkie Carlo: Chinese CCTV is watching you
Florence Read meets Silkie Carlo.
There are six million security cameras in use in the UK, one for every 11 people, and the majority are Chinese surveillance systems. London, where UnHerd has its offi…