Coup at the BBC – Start Your Week with Ros Taylor
The BBC’s Director General and head of news are forced to resign in a confected row about Donald Trump’s incendiary Jan 6 speech. Overdue accountability for mediocre leaders, or a successful drive-by ...
10 Nov 202525min
NEW Weekly Wrap-Up – From New York to Westminster with Alex von Tunzelmann
NEW: If you like Start Your Week’s look ahead, how about a round-up of the biggest, strangest, most important stories of the week, every Friday? On today’s debut edition: What Zohran Mamdani’s win in ...
7 Nov 202529min
Iron Curtain Call – How The Spy Who Came In From The Cold still tells the ugly truth about espionage
John le Carré was still a working secret agent when he wrote The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, the book that shocked the Britain of 1963 with its portrait of espionage not as heroic but as sordid, mo...
6 Nov 202529min
One year of Trump 2.0 – Does scandal mean anything anymore?
It's been a year since Trump’s election victory, how has US politics changed? What’s the trajectory? And is there any hope for the future? Emma Kennedy is joined by Casey Burgat, author of We Hold The...
5 Nov 202532min
Could it happen here? The threat of a British version of MAGA
The MAGA cult’s idol worship is the fuel for Trump’s war on American democracy. As British politics lurches to the right, could something similar ever happen here? Could violent racist nationalism and...
4 Nov 202534min
Knife attack fallout, Andrew scandal and Trump’s wars — Start Your Week with Gavin Esler
The horrific train stabbing attack at the weekend has shaken the nation. But are the media and politicians talking about it responsibly? Plus, the Andrew scandal rolls on and Trump continues to to com...
3 Nov 202528min
Five ways Trump's reign might end
From troops on the streets to desecrating the White House to literal sh*tposting videos, Trump’s fascistic reign is relentless and exhausting. One day it will end – but how? Will he run out of steam, ...
31 Okt 202533min
How extremists hijacked a decade and reshaped the future
In the 1970s, a new kind of revolutionary emerged: terrorists who used spectacle as a weapon. Plane hijackings, hostage crises and televised terror became the tools of radicals. Figures like Leila Kha...
30 Okt 202530min
