Spectator Out Loud: Svitlana Morenets, Sean Thomas and Angus Colwell
This week, Svitlana Morenets says Ukraine’s counteroffensive is not living up to the hype (00:59), Sean Thomas says he likes travelling to crappy towns (10:27), and Angus Colwell defends London’s rick...
18 Nov 202320min
Fuel for thought: how business can make use of hydrogen
How we achieve net zero is more than just a political or environmental decision. It is one that will have huge societal impacts. How we get our energy translates to how we move around, how we heat our...
17 Nov 202340min
The Edition: back to the future
On the podcast:It's been a busy week in Westminster. On Monday, Rishi Sunak's first major reshuffle saw Suella Braverman sacked and David Cameron make a surprise return to politics. Then two days lat...
16 Nov 202344min
The Book Club: Terry Hayes
In this week's Book Club podcast my guest is Terry Hayes, author of the squillion-selling thriller I Am Pilgrim. He tells me about invisible submarines, taking advice on crucifixion from Mel Gibson, a...
15 Nov 202334min
Chinese Whispers: how China's 'underground historians' battle the state narrative
Controlling history is key to the Chinese Communist Party’s control of the country. Whether it’s playing up the ‘century of humiliation’, or whitewashing past mistakes like the Great Leap Forward or t...
14 Nov 202335min
Holy Smoke: how light filled the first Roman Churches
When I was in Rome last month, I watched the 'synod on synodality' fizzle out while the Marko Rupnik sex scandal took another sinister turn (and various Catholic journalists shamefully tried to suppre...
13 Nov 202316min
Spectator Out Loud: Michael Simmons, Christopher Howse and Melissa Kite
This week, Michael Simmons looks at the dodgy graph thats justified the second lockdown (00:55), Christopher Howse examines what happened to received pronunciation (05:56), and Melissa Kite wonders wh...
12 Nov 202319min
Women With Balls: Arlene Phillips
Arlene Phillips was born in Lancashire, but moved to London to pursue her love for dance. She started age 3 and by the age of 20 she became a dance teacher. From here she formed the dance troupe Hot G...
10 Nov 202333min
