Podcast Episodes

The Book Club: M. John Harrison

My guest this week is the writer M. John Harrison, who joins me to talk about the rerelease of his 1992 novel The Course of the Heart – a deeply stra…

7 months, 3 weeks ago

Coffee House Shots: can Keir defrost the 'entente glaciale'?

Zut alors! The French are in town. Emmanuel Macron is on his state visit this week, spending time today with the King and tomorrow with the Prime Min…

7 months, 3 weeks ago

Americano: Victor Davis Hanson on left-wing rage, Musk’s grudge, & America’s identity crisis

Victor Davis Hanson, classicist, historian, and author of The End of Everything, joins Freddy Gray to discuss Zoran Mamdani’s shock candidacy win, th…

7 months, 3 weeks ago

Coffee House Shots: Labour’s first year (in review) with Tim Shipman & Quentin Letts

Cast your mind back a year. Labour had just won a storming majority, promising ‘change’ to a stale Tory party that was struggling to govern. But have…

7 months, 3 weeks ago

Spectator Out Loud: John Connolly, Gavin Mortimer, Dorian Lynskey, Steve Morris and Lloyd Evans

On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: John Connolly argues that Labour should look to Andy Burnham for inspiration (1:51); Gavin Mortimer asks if Britai…

7 months, 3 weeks ago

The Edition: Claws out for Keir, Mamdani’s poisoned apple & are most wedding toasts awful?

This week: one year of Labour – the verdict

In the magazine this week Tim Shipman declares his verdict on Keir Starmer’s Labour government as we appro…

8 months ago

Book Club: Karin Slaughter

Sam Leith's guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is one of the most popular living thriller writers. Karin Slaughter has made her native Georgia he…

8 months ago

Holy Smoke: it’s time for Pope Leo XIV to make some tough decisions

Nearly everyone loves Robert Prevost, the unassuming baseball fan from Chicago who unexpectedly became Pope Leo XIV this year. But as he prepares to …

8 months ago

Table Talk: Thomasina Miers, co-founder of Wahaca

Thomasina Miers is a chef, writer and restaurateur who co-founded Wahaca – the award-winning restaurant group that brought bold, sustainable Mexican …

8 months ago

Coffee House Shots: does Starmer still want to be PM?

There have been a number of navel-gazing interviews with the Prime Minister over the weekend. Across thousands and thousands of words, he seems to be…

8 months ago