The Book Club: Good Scammer
On this week's Book Club podcast, my guest is Guy Kennaway, whose new novel Good Scammer sprinkles a protective dusting of fiction over the true story of the real-life king of Jamaica's phone scammers...
29 Nov 202345min
Chinese Whispers: Is Mandarin bad for China?
Across the span of China, a country as big as Europe, there are countless regional dialects and accents – perhaps even languages. Often, they're mutually unintelligible.The Chinese call these ‘fangyan...
28 Nov 202343min
Spectator Out Loud: David Swift, Mary Wakefield & Peter Hitchens
This week: David Swift looks at whether hope remains in Jaffa, Isreal (00:51); Mary Wakefield on the civil service’s ‘say my name’ campaign (06:49) and Peter Hitchens on his time in prison (13:17). ...
25 Nov 202319min
Women With Balls: Alison McGovern
Alison McGovern sits on Labour’s front bench as the shadow minister for work and pensions but was first elected as an MP in 2010. Growing up in Merseyside, her grandfather was a folk singer who wrote ...
24 Nov 202327min
The Edition: Israel's challenge
On the podcast:Anshel Pfeffer writes The Spectator’s cover story this week. He voices concern that support from Israel’s allies might begin to waver if they don’t develop a viable plan after the war f...
23 Nov 202341min
Americano: Have we seen the last of Mitt Romney?
Freddy Gray talks to McKay Coppins, author of the New York Times bestselling book 'Romney: A Reckoning'.Romney has announced he will not seek reelection in 2024. What next for the 'never-Trumper', cou...
23 Nov 202331min
The Book Club: Jonathan Jones
My guest in this week's Book Club podcast is the art critic Jonathan Jones. The term 'renaissance' is out of fashion among scholars these days, but in his new book Earthly Delights: A History of the R...
22 Nov 202356min
Table Talk: Celia Walden
Celia Walden is a journalist, novelist and critic whose most recent novel, The Square, is out now. On the podcast she tells Lara and Liv why lentils are her ultimate comfort food, explains the joys of...
21 Nov 202316min
