Malice in Blunderland – Start Your Week with Alex Andreou
Parliament returns to a family-sized party pack of Government cruelty and ineptitude: a National Insurance hike that hits the lowest-paid the hardest, an end to the £20 Universal Credit bonus for the ...
6 Sep 202126min
The Prime Ministers We Never Had: Steve Richards talks to Nick Cohen
What stopped Heseltine, Ken Clarke, Dennis Healey and Kinnock from taking the top slot? Why didn’t Barbara Castle become Britain’s first female PM? The Observer’s Nick Cohen talks to the political col...
5 Sep 202133min
Daily: MEDIEVAL GENIUS – Historian DAN JONES on the Middle Ages you don’t know
The Middle Ages are an unloved tract of history, by turns alien and baffling – but these thousand years of violence, crisis and conquest set the foundations for our modern world in the most unexpected...
2 Sep 202126min
Crazy Little Thing Called Gove
The sight of Michael Gove getting his rave on in Aberdeen is the only cheering moment in a week of unremitting grimness. As the collapse of Afghanistan gives way to a growing refugee crisis, why is th...
1 Sep 202155min
High School COVID-ential – Start Your Week with Ros Taylor
Schools are back. Will the decision not to vaccinate 12-15 year olds turn classes into superspreader factories – or do we actually want school-age kids to catch COVID and build up immunity? Plus, why ...
31 Aug 202123min
Daily: ALAN JOHNSON on Mods, Murder and Momentum
For many he’s the great leader that Labour should have had. Now that he’s left frontline politics, Alan Johnson is trying his hand at writing fiction with his debut thriller The Late Train to Gipsy Hi...
30 Aug 202124min
Daily: Author ELIF SHAFAK – “Empathy is like a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it becomes.”
British-Turkish novelist and academic Elif Shafak is an international feminist icon followed by legions of passionate readers. She tells Dorian Lynskey about her latest novel The Island of Missing Tre...
29 Aug 202130min
Daily: MIND THE AGE GAP – Why the War of the Generations is a myth
Does the year we were born really shape us people? Are Gen X Snowflakes really battling Baby Boomers in an intergenerational war? Friend of the podcast Professor Bobby Duffy returns with Ros Taylor to...
26 Aug 202125min
