Podcast Episodes

The Book Club: Alice Loxton

My guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is the historian Alice Loxton, whose new book Eighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives is just out in paperback. In it, she tells the story of the ea…

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

Table Talk: Jun Tanaka

Jun Tanaka is a Japanese-British chef with over 30 years’ experience in some of London’s most famous restaurants, including La Gavroche, Restaurant Marco Pierre White and The Square. In 2016 he opene…

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

Americano: America's white guilt hangover

From the decline of meritocracy to the rise of anti-Western ideology, author Heather Mac Donald joins Freddy Gray to discuss race, merit, and victim hierarchy. Why is the West so desperate to self-ca…

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

Holy Smoke: is God an Englishman?

Bijan Omrani joins Damian Thompson to talk about his new book God is an Englishman: Christianity and the Creation of England. They discuss the spiritual and cultural debt the country owes to Christia…

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

Coffee House Shots: should cannabis be decriminalised?

London Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan has called for possession of small amounts of cannabis to be decriminalised following a report by the London Drugs Commission. The report has made 42 recommendations, whic…

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

Spectator Out Loud: Arabella Byrne, Sean Thomas, Mathew Lyons, Bryan Appleyard & Chas Newkey-Burden

On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Arabella Byrne on the social minefield of private swimming pools (1:13); Sean Thomas says that not knowing where you are is one of the joys of travel (5:34); review…

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

The Edition: end of the rainbow, rising illiteracy & swimming pool etiquette

End of the rainbow: Pride’s fall

What ‘started half a century ago as an afternoon’s little march for lesbians and gay men’, argues Gareth Roberts, became ‘a jamboree not only of boring homosexuality’ …

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

Americano: what does Sam Altman want?

Freddy Gray speaks to writer and author Karen Hao, whose new book Empire of AI looks at a new, ominous age of empire with OpenAI. On the podcast they discuss the impacts of artificial intelligence on…

Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago

Book Club: Robert Macfarlane

Sam Leith's guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is Robert Macfarlane. In his new book Is A River Alive? he travels from the cloud forests of Ecuador to the pollution-choked rivers of Chennai and t…

Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago

Americano: what does Sam Altman want?

Freddy Gray speaks to writer and author Karen Hao, whose new book Empire of AI looks at a new, ominous age of empire with OpenAI. On the podcast they discuss the impacts of artificial intelligence on…

Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago