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UnHerd with Freddie Sayers

 Sebastian Giraud

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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Emily Jashinsky: Meet Trump's unconventional cabinet

Emily Jashinsky: Meet Trump's unconventional cabinet

Is Donald Trump assembling the most disruptive cabinet in recent memory? UnHerd’s Emily Jashinsky and Freddie Sayers debate the pitfalls and potential of the new MAGA recruits.

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00:45:53  |   Thu 21 Nov 2024
Wolfgang Munchau: Will Germany be next?

Wolfgang Munchau: Will Germany be next?

Does the rapid rise of the populist AfD party and the inauguration of Donald Trump mark a perfect storm for Germany? Wolfgang Munchau, founder of Eurointelligence, joined UnHerd's Freddie Sayers to r…
00:59:33  |   Mon 18 Nov 2024
Yanis Varoufakis: Overthrow the Big Tech tyrants

Yanis Varoufakis: Overthrow the Big Tech tyrants

Former finance minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis has dedicated his life to fighting crony capitalism. Now he faces a total rewiring of global power by the billionaires of Big Tech. How, he asks, di…
01:17:44  |   Fri 15 Nov 2024
John Mearsheimer: We're all realists now

John Mearsheimer: We're all realists now

The 'realist' approach to international relations was not long ago considered a dangerous idea. But with increased Western interventionism in Ukraine, Israel and even China, thinkers that were once e…
01:06:57  |   Fri 01 Nov 2024
Megyn Kelly: The Washington Post is doomed

Megyn Kelly: The Washington Post is doomed

Megyn Kelly joins Emily to preview Election Night on Undercurrents.



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00:26:03  |   Wed 30 Oct 2024
Glenn Loury: Why black men are warming to Trump

Glenn Loury: Why black men are warming to Trump

UnHerd's Freddie Sayers meets Glenn Loury to discuss what the US could look like, post election.

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00:32:10  |   Thu 24 Oct 2024
Mattias Desmet: Are you suffering from mass formation psychosis?

Mattias Desmet: Are you suffering from mass formation psychosis?

Professor of psychology and author Mattias Desmet is the world expert on mass formation psychosis, a condition he observed during the pandemic years. He joins UnHerd's Florence Read to unpack the lin…
00:46:44  |   Thu 17 Oct 2024
Rosie Duffield: Why I quit the Labour Party

Rosie Duffield: Why I quit the Labour Party

Rosie Duffield quit the Labour Party less than 100 days after she was elected MP for Canterbury. She likened working under UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer to being in an “abusive relationship”. UnHerd…
00:39:55  |   Fri 11 Oct 2024
David Owen: A radical life

David Owen: A radical life

David Owen has spent the last 60 years at the heart of British politics. After becoming a Labour MP in 1966 and serving as foreign secretary under Jim Callaghan from 1977-1979, he became disillusione…
01:21:19  |   Fri 04 Oct 2024
Robby Soave:

Robby Soave: "I'm sick of one-sided fact-checking"

Robby Soave joins Emily for a rapid response breakdown of the Oct. 1 vice presidential debate between JD Vance and Tim Walz hosted by CBS.

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00:36:55  |   Wed 02 Oct 2024
Liz Truss: I think I was right

Liz Truss: I think I was right

As arguably the most controversial Prime Minister in recent British history, Liz Truss has become the face of free market libertarianism and its discontents. She joins UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers to disc…
01:11:50  |   Tue 10 Sep 2024
Curtis Yarvin: Welcome to the Dark Enlightenment

Curtis Yarvin: Welcome to the Dark Enlightenment

UnHerd's Flo Read speaks to Curtis Yarvin at the Unherd Club. Curtis Yarvin is the philosophical godfather of the so-called ‘New Right’, a movement that defies simple categories and political expect…
01:29:51  |   Fri 06 Sep 2024
Katja Hoyer & Thomas Fazi: Political earthquake in East Germany

Katja Hoyer & Thomas Fazi: Political earthquake in East Germany

Is a Right-Left horseshoe coming to Europe? Katja Hoyer and Thomas Fazi join Freddie Sayers to unpack this weekend’s populist surge in East Germany.

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00:34:07  |   Mon 02 Sep 2024
Freddie Sayers and Emily Jashinsky: What’s Kamala up to?

Freddie Sayers and Emily Jashinsky: What’s Kamala up to?

UnHerd's Freddie Sayers and Emily Jashinsky discuss Kamala Harris' speech at the DNC...

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00:23:13  |   Fri 23 Aug 2024
Who really blew up the Nord Stream pipeline?

Who really blew up the Nord Stream pipeline?

UnHerd's Freddie Sayers meets Bojan Pancevski, to discuss who actually blew up the Nord Stream pipeline.

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00:51:26  |   Tue 20 Aug 2024
Silkie Carlo: Get ready for the crackdown

Silkie Carlo: Get ready for the crackdown

Could Keir Starmer exploit the summer riots to curtail civil liberties? From the return of the Counter Disinformation Unit to the start of live facial recognition, Big Brother Watch's Silkie Carlo jo…

00:37:03  |   Thu 08 Aug 2024
Aris Roussinos: Ethnic conflict has come to Britain

Aris Roussinos: Ethnic conflict has come to Britain

Riots that began in Southport last week have since spread to London, Rotherham, Middlesbrough, Liverpool, Bolton and Northern Ireland. UnHerd columnist Aris Roussinos was on the ground in Belfast as …
00:32:19  |   Tue 06 Aug 2024
Olympic boxing scandal: Sex and the science of fair sport

Olympic boxing scandal: Sex and the science of fair sport

This morning, Algerian boxer Imane Khelif won an Olympic boxing match by default after Italy's Angela Carini, abandoned the bout in protest. Why? Because Khelif, previously banned from the World Cham…
00:25:58  |   Thu 01 Aug 2024
Nina Power: Free speech on trial

Nina Power: Free speech on trial

After a years-long legal battle, philosopher Nina Power has found herself on the vanguard of a complex question: do artists have the responsibility to engage with dangerous ideas? She joined UnHerd's…
00:57:38  |   Fri 26 Jul 2024
Emily Jashinsky: It was a new Donald Trump... for ten minutes!

Emily Jashinsky: It was a new Donald Trump... for ten minutes!

As the Republican National Convention comes to a close, what has it told us about the future of the party? Fresh from watching Trump's headline speech in Milwaukee, DC Correspondent Emily Jashinsky j…
00:22:49  |   Fri 19 Jul 2024
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