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The Book Club: Kathryn Hughes
My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is the author and historian Kathryn Hughes, whose new book Catland tells the story of how we learned to lov…
2 years, 1 month ago
Table Talk: Joel Golby
Joel Golby is a journalist who has written for – among others – Vice and the Guardian, where he has a regular column, the watcher, reviewing televisi…
2 years, 1 month ago
Americano: what Trump’s ‘hush money’ trial tells us about the American legal system
Freddy Gray is joined Alan Dershowitz, American lawyer and author of Get Trump: the threat to civil liberties, due process, and our constitutional ru…
2 years, 1 month ago
Spectator Out Loud: Svitlana Morenets, Mary Wakefield, Max Jeffery, Sam Leith and Richard Bratby
On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: In light of the help Israel received, Svitlana Morenets issues a challenge to the West to help Ukraine (1:15); Mar…
2 years, 1 month ago
Americano: is the criticism of Biden's Middle East policy fair?
Freddy speaks to the diplomat and author Dennis B Ross, who worked under presidents George H W Bush and Bill Clinton. He was a special advisor on the…
2 years, 1 month ago
The Edition: the dangers of political prosecution
This week: the usual targets
First: Trump is on trial again – and America is bored rather than scandalised. This is his 91st criminal charge and his…
2 years, 1 month ago
The Book Club: Percival Everett
On this week’s Book Club podcast I’m joined by Percival Everett, who has followed up his Booker-shortlisted The Trees with James, a novel that reimag…
2 years, 1 month ago
Liz Truss on who really runs Britain
It's now 18 months since Liz Truss left Downing Street. She has written a memoir, Ten Years to Save the West, which records her political career sinc…
2 years, 1 month ago
Chinese Whispers: Was Marco Polo a 'sexpat'?
When I recently came across a book review asking the question ‘was Marco Polo a "sexpat"?’, I knew I had to get its author on to, well, discuss this …
2 years, 1 month ago
Spectator Out Loud: Matthew Parris, Laurie Graham, Rachel Johnson, Laura Gascoigne and Angus Colwell
This week: Matthew Parris questions what's left to say about the Tories (00:57), Laurie Graham discusses her struggle to see a GP (07:35), Rachel Joh…
2 years, 1 month ago