Americano: what happens if the election is a tie?
America has a peculiar way of deciding national elections. Instead of a cumulative national vote, the president and vice president are determined by fifty separate state elections. The top ticket in e...
1 Okt 202431min
Chinese Whispers: will AI be the next arms race?
** On October 19, Cindy Yu and a panel of special guests will be recording a live Chinese Whispers at London's Battle of Ideas festival, talking the latest on China’s economic slowdown and asking – wh...
30 Sep 202448min
Americano: could Pennsylvania decide the US election?
Freddy Gray is joined by Oliver Bateman, historian and journalist based in Pittsburgh. They discuss how important Pennsylvania will be during the election, the mail-in ballot system, and the state of ...
29 Sep 202430min
Spectator Out Loud: Rachel Johnson, James Heale, Paul Wood, Rowan Pelling and Graeme Thomson
On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Rachel Johnson reads her diary for the week (1:19); James Heale analyses the true value of Labour peer Lord Alli (6:58); Paul Wood questions if Israel is trying to d...
28 Sep 202434min
Women With Balls: Bridget Phillipson, live at Labour conference
Labour’s Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson returns to Women With Balls in a special live edition of the podcast, recorded at Labour Party conference. The MP for Houghton and Sunderland South sinc...
27 Sep 202432min
The Edition: Tory wars, the reality of trail hunting & is Sally Rooney-mania over?
This week: who’s on top in the Conservative leadership race?That’s the question Katy Balls asks in the magazine this week as she looks ahead to the Conservative Party conference. Each Tory hopeful wil...
26 Sep 202442min
The Book Club: Alan Garner
My guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is Alan Garner whose new book of essays and poems is called Powsels and Thrums: A Tapestry of a Creative Life. Alan tells me about landscape and writing, scie...
25 Sep 202440min
Table Talk: Charlie Bigham
Charlie Bigham founded his eponymous ready to cook meals over 25 years ago. Having left a career as a management consultant, his company has gone on to report annual sales in the tens of millions, wit...
24 Sep 202430min
