Spectator Out Loud: Richard Madeley, Kate Andrews, Lloyd Evans, Sam McPhail and Graeme Thomson
This week: Richard Madeley reads his diary (01:06), Kate Andrews describes how Kate-gate gripped America (06:18), Lloyd Evans warns against meddling with Shakespeare (11:38), Sam McPhail details how C...
23 Maalis 202435min
Americano: Trump vs luxury beliefs
Freddy speaks to Rob Henderson, author of Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, in which he coins the term 'luxury beliefs'. These are certain beliefs held by a section of the e...
22 Maalis 202428min
The Edition: Scotland’s new Hate Crime Act is fraught with danger
On the podcast: Scotland’s new hate crime law; the man who could be France’s next PM; and why do directors meddle with Shakespeare? First up: Scotland is smothering free speech.Scotland is getting a n...
21 Maalis 202450min
The Book Club: Joel Morris
My guest in this week's Book Club is Joel Morris, an award-winning comedy writer whose credits run from co-creating Philomena Cunk to writing gags for Viz and punching up the script for Paddington 2. ...
20 Maalis 202450min
Americano: are we suffering from 'Trump outrage fatigue'?
Freddy Gray talks to political science lecturer Damon Linker about the latest developments in the Biden and Trump campaigns. Why did Biden’s fiery State of the Union Address provide him no uptick in t...
19 Maalis 202432min
Chinese Whispers: Li Ziqi and the phenomenon of the rural influencer
In the last episode, I discussed Chinese rural lives with Professor Scott Rozelle. One point he made which particularly stuck with me was the dying out of farming as an occuption – he'd said that most...
18 Maalis 202422min
Americano: will America ban TikTok?
Freddy Gray speaks to Matt McDonald, Spectator World's managing editor about the the vote to force a sale of TikTok to a US company, and foreign lobbying for and against the move in Washington. Host...
17 Maalis 202419min
Spectator Out Loud: William Moore, Sean Thomas, Matt Ridley, Lionel Shriver and Kate Andrews
On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: William Moore questions if the Church of England is about the apologise for Christianity (1:19); Sean Thomas recounts his experience taking ayahuasca in Colombia (8:...
16 Maalis 202441min
