The Book Club: My Year of Fear with Stephen King
My guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is Caroline Bicks, who tells me how she put her academic work on Shakespeare to one side to produce her new book Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear wit...
22 Huhti 46min
Quite right!: Starmer didn’t even want Mandelson – so why appoint him?
For more from Michael and Maddie, search 'Quite right!' wherever you are listening to this podcast and hit the follow button to never miss an episode. This week: the Mandelson row deepens – and a bigg...
21 Huhti 40min
Americano: Iran vs USA – how this could end
A ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon has just come into effect. Iran’s Foreign Minister says 'in line with the ceasefire in Lebanon, the passage for all commercial vessels through Strait of Hormuz i...
21 Huhti 30min
Spectator Out Loud: Robert Hardman, Melissa Kite, Julian Glover & Sarah Carlson
On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: as the King prepares to head to America, Robert Hardman looks ahead to what would have been Elizabeth II’s centenary celebration; Melissa Kite reports from the fuel ...
20 Huhti 23min
Americano: why has Trump picked a fight with the Pope?
Donald Trump’s latest clash with the Pope has stunned even the more hardened of America-watchers. According to the President of the United States Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV, the spiritual leader of 1.3...
19 Huhti 25min
Reality Check: how the leasehold mafia screwed a generation of homeowners
Buying a flat in Britain has increasingly become a fool's errand, driven in part by the leasehold system trapping homeowners into flats. When Labour wrote their manifesto they promised reform to the l...
18 Huhti 34min
The Edition: Rowan Williams on America's 'demonic' political climate
The Pope is 'WEAK on crime and terrible on foreign policy' – this was the verdict of the President of the United States this week, as he appeared to deepen his row with the leader of the Catholic Chur...
17 Huhti 49min
The Book Club: The Once and Future Riot
My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is the reporter – cartoonist Joe Sacco, talking about his most recent book The Once and Future Riot, about Hindu/Muslim violence in rural India. He tells me h...
15 Huhti 26min
