The Book Club: Philip Mansel
In this week’s Book Club podcast, my guest is the historian Philip Mansel. We talk about his new biography King of the World: The Life of Louis XIV. He tells me what really drove the great megalomania...
22 Juni 202243min
Table Talk: Olia Hercules on #CookForUkraine
On a slightly different episode of Table Talk, chef and food writer, Olia Hercules joins Olivia Potts for a second time on the podcast to talk about #CookForUkraine. Created with Russian friend and fo...
21 Juni 202221min
Spectator Out Loud: Mary Wakefield, John R. MacArthur and Daisy Dunn
On this week's episode: Mary Wakefield asks why no one's mentioning the cult Tom Cruise belongs to (00:54), John R. MacArthur asks if Macron should be scared by an ascendant Jean-Luc Mélenchon (06:58)...
17 Juni 202224min
Women With Balls: Time to break the menopause taboo
Women of menopausal age make up a tenth of the UK workforce (and a quarter of all working women). The symptoms of menopause can make work much harder, they include both physical and mental, from hot f...
17 Juni 202231min
The Edition: The death of political authority
In this week’s episode:Why is there a lack of faith in western leaders? Spectator deputy editor Freddy Gray, Callum Williams from the Economist & Harvard professor Barbara Kellerman discuss why the wo...
16 Juni 202237min
The Book Club: Andrea Elliott
In this week's Book Club podcast I'm joined by the New York Times's Andrea Elliott, who won the Pulitzer Prize for her book Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in New York City. She tells me h...
15 Juni 202239min
Marshall Matters: Coleman Hughes
Winston speaks with writer, musician and host of Conversations with Coleman, Coleman Hughes. They discuss blasphemy in the music industry, counter-culture, race, reparations, colourblindness and much ...
14 Juni 20221h 10min
Chinese Whispers: Mythbusting the social credit system
China's social credit system is notorious. This Black Mirror-esque network supposedly gives citizens a score, based on an opaque algorithm that feeds on data from each person's digital and physical li...
13 Juni 202254min
