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
Steve Bannon: Elon Musk should be deported
In this exclusive UnHerd interview, Steve Bannon, former Trump Chief Strategist, host of The War Room, and Elon Musk’s strongest critic, dissects the dramatic rift between President Donald Trump and …
Kyle Chan: Is this the ‘Chinese century’?
Is China poised to dominate the global economy? UnHerd's Editor-in-Chief, Freddie Sayers, speaks to Kyle Chan, a Princeton University expert on Chinese industrial policy, to unpack the seismic shifts…
Crypto: What are the Trumps up to?
Is Donald Trump cashing in on the crypto craze—or crossing ethical lines?
UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers and CoinDesk’s Ben Schiller unpack the Trump family’s sudden crypto conversion and what it means for p…
Yanis Varoufakis & Wolfgang Münchau: The danger of Europe's East-West divide
Ben Shapiro: The break-up of the Right
Ben Shapiro joins Freddie Sayers for a wide-ranging conversation on the future of the American Right. They discuss what Trump has got right — and wrong — in his current tenure, Shapiro’s public criti…
Aris Roussinos: The view from Romania
Has the anti-populist backlash already begun? Contributing editor and war reporter Aris Roussinos joins UnHerd from Romania, where he has been witnessing the final stages of a closely fought election…
Sohrab Ahmari: Pope Leo versus the populists
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Freddie Sayers, host of UnHerd, interviews UnHerd’s US Editor and practicing Ca…
Peter Hitchens: The case for the death penalty
Is the death penalty justice or revenge?
With 2,474 people on US death row in 2025 and debates raging globally, UnHerd's Editor-in-Chief Freddie Sayers sits down with Peter in this latest episode, to …
Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau: Why Europe will lose the trade war
Can 'pronatalists' save the West?
UnHerd’s Florence Read interviews outspoken pronatalists, Malcolm and Simone Collins, to dive into the urgent issue of population collapse.
Is pronatalism the answer to demographic catastrophe, or doe…
Michael Ignatieff: Canada's election results aren't what they seem
Freddie Sayers hosts Michael Ignatieff, former Canadian Liberal leader, to dissect the 2025 Canadian election and Mark Carney’s leadership.
Ignatieff breaks down Carney’s global expertise, his strateg…
Debating Renaud Camus on remigration
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Julie Bindel: Grooming gangs are still in Britain
UnHerd’s Florence Read interviews feminist journalist Julie Bindel on the UK’s grooming gang crisis.
Bindel exposes the history of these crimes, society’s neglect and victim-shaming, and the political…
Arrested for praying: The free speech row
Join Freddie Sayers for an exclusive deep dive with pro-life activists Adam Smith-Connor, Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, and Livia Tossici-Bolt, who share their experiences of being questioned and arrested f…
The JD Vance interview - explained
UnHerd’s US Editor sits down with Editor-in-Chief Freddie Sayers, about his exclusive interview with US Vice President JD Vance. The interview marked the VP’s first major interview with a European ou…
Douglas Murray responds to Joe Rogan
In this captivating UnHerd interview, Freddie Sayers sits down with Douglas Murray to trace his remarkable evolution from a young Oxford scholar immersed in cultural and artistic pursuits to a global…
Slavoj Žižek: Trump is a liberal fetish
Stock market meltdown: What happens next?
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers sits down with Wolfgang Munchau and Anatole Kaletsky.
UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers holds an emergency roundtable with economic commentator and director of the Eurointelligence blog,…
Robert Zubrin: How humans will live on Mars
UnHerd's Flo Read meets Mars Society Founder, Robert Zubrin.
Renowned aerospace engineer and President of the Mars Society - which advocates for human exploration and colonisation of Mars - gives us h…
Claire Lehmann: The threat to free speech from the Right
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers speaks to Quillette Founder and Editor, Claire Lehmann.
Join Freddie Sayers on UnHerd as he sits down with Claire Lehmann, founder of Quillette, the Sydney-based magazine launc…