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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.


Due to popular demand here is a podcast version of our YouTube — available to watch, for free here or by searching ‘LockdownTV’.


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Science Culture Interviews Society & Culture News Philosophy
Update frequency
every 4 days
Average duration
41 minutes
Episodes
337
Years Active
2020 - 2025
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Bridget Phetasy: the power of Big Tech is chilling

Bridget Phetasy: the power of Big Tech is chilling

Around the world, California is romanticised as a glamorous haven of luxury and sunshine. But the reality, as we have been finding out, is quite different: rubbish stacked in the streets, a homelessn…

00:40:56  |   Wed 14 Apr 2021
Sir Nicholas Soames: the values of Philip's generation are now far away

Sir Nicholas Soames: the values of Philip's generation are now far away

There are few families in Britain closer to the royal family than the family of wartime leader Sir Winston Churchill. His grandson, Sir Nicholas Soames, knew Prince Philip very well over a 60-year pe…

00:15:38  |   Fri 09 Apr 2021
Dave Rubin: why the ‘Intellectual Dark Web’ split up

Dave Rubin: why the ‘Intellectual Dark Web’ split up

The group of thinkers now known as the “Intellectual Dark Web” — Jordan Peterson, Sam Harris, Bret and Eric Weinstein, Ben Shapiro — were convened in Dave Rubin’s garage and on his YouTube channel, T…

00:43:40  |   Tue 06 Apr 2021
Vermont Professor: I stand by my anti-whiteness video

Vermont Professor: I stand by my anti-whiteness video

Over the past year, the culture wars have been raging and one of the places where they have been fought most fiercely is on American college campuses. Efforts to ‘decolonise the curriculum’ and censo…

00:34:16  |   Wed 31 Mar 2021
Tim Pool on Joe Biden, Occupy and Big Tech

Tim Pool on Joe Biden, Occupy and Big Tech

Online Lefty, liberal journalist, Right-wing podcaster and alt-Right adjacent. These are just some of the labels applied to Tim Pool, a YouTuber and citizen journalist who first rose to prominence in…

00:41:41  |   Mon 29 Mar 2021
Tom Tugendhat: the Chinese Government sent letters to my home

Tom Tugendhat: the Chinese Government sent letters to my home

Tom Tugendhat MP is Chair of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee and one of the five British MPs placed on a sanctions list yesterday by the Chinese Communist Party. He spoke to Freddie Sa…

00:16:01  |   Fri 26 Mar 2021
Spermageddon: are humans going extinct?

Spermageddon: are humans going extinct?

Is the human race on the verge of extinction? That’s the jaw-dropping claim made in Professor Shanna Swan’s new book ‘Count Down: How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and F…

00:29:30  |   Thu 25 Mar 2021
Debate: are vaccine passports necessary?

Debate: are vaccine passports necessary?

Are vaccine passports the fastest way back to normality or do they bring us a step closer towards a dystopian checkpoint state?

On today’s LockdownTV, Freddie Sayers heard from both sides of the debat…

00:37:43  |   Thu 18 Mar 2021
Paul Kingsnorth: science can never replace the mythic

Paul Kingsnorth: science can never replace the mythic

Paul Kingsnorth doesn’t fit neatly into Left or Right — which is only one of the reasons we consider him one of the more interesting thinkers of our time. He has been talking and writing about nature…

00:50:41  |   Wed 10 Mar 2021
Lord Sumption: mass civil disobedience has begun

Lord Sumption: mass civil disobedience has begun

Jonathan Sumption was once the epitome of the Establishment — a brilliant barrister who represented the Government in the Hutton enquiry, Supreme Court Justice, supporter of the Remain campaign and e…

00:51:30  |   Thu 04 Mar 2021
Darren McGarvey: Class, not identity, should drive politics

Darren McGarvey: Class, not identity, should drive politics

Class is a subject that, no matter how much we advance as a society, we seem unable to stop talking about — especially in the UK. Glasgow rapper Darren McGarvey, otherwise known as Loki, has been thi…

00:33:00  |   Fri 26 Feb 2021
Politicians of Left and Right join forces to question lockdowns

Politicians of Left and Right join forces to question lockdowns

One of the main features of the UK lockdowns has been the near-uniform consensus around them. As each one has gone by, cross-party support for lockdowns has only strengthened while fewer voices have …
00:26:29  |   Wed 24 Feb 2021
Claire Lehmann: Australia is the canary in the Facebook coal mine

Claire Lehmann: Australia is the canary in the Facebook coal mine

Earlier this week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had a difficult decision to make. Incoming legislation in Australia meant that social media platforms like his were going to be forced to pay news prov…

00:17:52  |   Fri 19 Feb 2021
Government scientist: dystopian talk of ‘new normal’ scares me

Government scientist: dystopian talk of ‘new normal’ scares me

When is life going to go back to normal? That’s the question on everyone’s lips and one that Government ministers have — so far— been reluctant to answer. It was hoped that the advent of a vaccine wo…

00:28:24  |   Tue 16 Feb 2021
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Covid will change the immigration question forever

Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Covid will change the immigration question forever

It is hard to think of a more sensitive topic than the connection between sexual violence against women and the surge in immigration from Muslim countries into Europe since 2015. But then, it is hard…

00:44:05  |   Thu 11 Feb 2021
Roger Hallam: the conservative case for Extinction Rebelllion

Roger Hallam: the conservative case for Extinction Rebelllion

As the Conservative government prepares to host the COP26 climate summit, famous environmental campaigner and co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, Roger Hallam, has a message he wants people to hear: …

00:31:15  |   Wed 03 Feb 2021
Teachers speak out: is closing schools immoral?

Teachers speak out: is closing schools immoral?

For much of the past year, across Europe and the wider world, schools have been closed. Was this a morally justifiable policy?

Freddie Sayers spoke to teachers and one former teacher, now MP, to find …

00:37:59  |   Fri 29 Jan 2021
Sacked Eton teacher: I stand by my Patriarchy lecture

Sacked Eton teacher: I stand by my Patriarchy lecture

When teacher Will Knowland was sacked by Eton for refusing to take down a lecture from his YouTube account, his departure sparked furious debate. The lecture, ‘The Patriarchy Paradox’, argued that th…

00:36:30  |   Thu 21 Jan 2021
Adam Wagner: are lockdowns against human rights?

Adam Wagner: are lockdowns against human rights?

Human rights lawyer Adam Wagner meets Freddie Sayers.

Adam Wagner is one of the UK’s highest-profile legal experts on human rights, citing Shami Chakrabati as one of his main influences in the field. …

00:39:36  |   Mon 18 Jan 2021
Andrew Sullivan: I was right about Trump

Andrew Sullivan: I was right about Trump

Freddie Sayers speaks to writer and commentator Andrew Sullivan to help understand what's going on in America.

The images from the 6th January riots at the US Capitol will be with us for years — shock…

00:49:29  |   Mon 11 Jan 2021
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