The Politics of Music

In this episode of The Political Dispatch, we turn our attention to India, the world’s largest democracy, where a student-led protest movement has grown into a major political story. Rather than inter...

12 Aug 29min

Chad Mott returns! In this sequel to Lessons in Democracy (the show's most downloaded episode), Lily, Sidd and Tom sit down with Chad, a history and government teacher at Evergreen High School in Colo...

25 Juli 41min

In the third and final part of their Brexit trilogy, Tom is joined by Associate Professor Dr. Monika Brusenbauch Meislová to ask ten years on from the EU referendum, where are we now? You can listen t...

1 Juli 23min

British politics used to be boring. Not any more. Over the course of a long weekend, Andy Burnham won a crucial by-election in Makerfield, forced Keir Starmer to resign as Prime Minister, and became t...

27 Juni 34min

In part two of our three-part series marking ten years since the Brexit referendum, Tom and Sidd return to their old stomping ground, Cardiff's School of Journalism, Media and Culture, to interview th...

22 Juni 40min

In the first of a three-part series marking ten years since the Brexit referendum, Tom, Lily and Sidd sit down with Dr Nicholas Startin, Associate Professor of International Relations at John Cabot Un...

17 Juni 57min

To celebrate fifty years of All the President's Men, Tom sits down with Professor Jon Lewis, University Distinguished Professor of Film Studies at Oregon State University, who has been teaching and wr...

28 Maj 57min

Sidd and Tom analyse Parliamentary elections in Wales and Scotland, and local elections in England.  Plaid Cymru (The Party of Wales) have become the largest party in Wales, followed by Reform in seco...

10 Maj 46min