STARMY WEATHER – Start Your Election Week with Ros Taylor
As votes loom in Hartlepool, Scotland, Wales and in local authorities and metro mayor regions across England, is Keir Starmer’s message on Government sleaze finally cutting through? And what will it a...
4 Maj 202123min
GODS AND MONSTERS: How Aristotle explains the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Can the classics tell us the truth about Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, Black Widow and the Marvel pantheon? Robert Eaglestone, Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway, Un...
1 Maj 202127min
Daily: COME TOGETHER RIGHT NOW – Why we’re not as divided as we think
Is Britain really the hopelessly split society that we fear? The good news is that as the Brexit rubble settles, our common ground is growing, and Britain is more up for serious political change than ...
29 Apr 202127min
Daily: MASSIVE ATTACK – Why the Cuban Missile Crisis matters today
The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1963 might be the closest the world has ever come to actual nuclear war – but do we really understand what went on between Kennedy, the USA and Kruschev’s USSR? Ukraine-bor...
28 Apr 202122min
Bozilla vs King Dom – with special guest Emma Kennedy
Whoever wins, we lose… As Dominic Cummings takes a wrecking ball to the Prime Minister he made, writer Emma Kennedy joins us to ask who will win this particular Battle of the Bastards. Plus, if social...
27 Apr 202156min
DOM DROPS THE BOMB – Start Your Week with Alex Andreou
It’s a classic Alien vs Predator scenario as disgruntled supervillain Dominic Cummings resurfaces with the receipts on Johnson’s squalid behaviour over lockdown, leaks and the No.11 flat. What will go...
26 Apr 202126min
Daily: SORTED FOR SLEAZE AND BIZ – Inside the Greensill omniscandal
From Cameron to cabinet, the Greensill Capital scandal has spiralled into corruption chaos. But now numerous instances of shady practice are joining hands. Special guests Cynthia O’Murchú and Andy Bou...
24 Apr 202129min
Daily: WHY MARS MATTERS with The Economist’s science correspondent Alok Jha
The Perseverance Rover is bringing us stunningly detailed images of Mars, but do we really need to go there? Are we anywhere nearer proof of life on other worlds? And is Elon Musk’s dream of a million...
22 Apr 202125min
