Daily: THE ACCIDENTAL PRESIDENT – The disasters that made Trump
Was the Trump Presidency just a publicity stunt that got out of hand? Film-maker James Fletcher’s new documentary on the 2016 campaign The Accidental President is streaming now on Amazon and Apple TV....
25 Feb 202126min
MICHAEL HESELTINE talks to Ian Dunt: “Keep the faith. Brexit is a disaster.”
Our 250th edition! In the Thatcher governments of the 80s Michael Heseltine was the loudest voice for embattled One Nation Toryism. In later years he’s become a hero to Remainers, eventually paying fo...
24 Feb 202118min
Weekly: Guest DAVID BLUNKETT on Johnson’s unlocking gamble and Starmer’s “nightmare job”
As the Roadmap to Unlocking is unveiled, are Johnson’s plans over-cautious, reckless, unrealistic or maybe… reasonable? Special guest former Home Secretary David Blunkett joins us to explain what it’s...
23 Feb 20211h 6min
Remember “outside”? Start Your Week with Ros Taylor
Will Boris Johnson’s “schools first” plan for unlocking England placate the headbangers of the CRG? What about those desperate for a beer that’s not from a can? Can Keir Starmer out-caution the PM? An...
22 Feb 202121min
Daily: “If you can’t see it, you can’t be it” – Fixing history’s woman problem
After decades of feminist thought, why is history still a parade of men and the things they’ve done? The writers, poets and teachers behind the Twitter initiative @OnThisDayShe are putting women back ...
19 Feb 202130min
Daily: The man who ran Britain
What does it mean to be indispensable? From Major through New Labour to the Coalition, the late Civil Service giant Jeremy Heywood was to a key advisor to four Prime Ministers, and Cabinet Secretary t...
18 Feb 202118min
Daily: Will the Gulf end up owning sport?
From the ownership of Manchester City and Paris St. Germain to motor sport in the Middle East to the Beijing Olympics, questionable regimes are laundering their reputations by association with elite s...
17 Feb 202122min
Corona Calamities and Climate Emergencies with guest CAROLINE LUCAS MP
Britain’s COVID policy has failed women so badly that organisations from Amnesty to the Fawcett Society have called for the EHRC to intervene. Why can’t our blokey-bloke Cabinet understand that more t...
16 Feb 202151min
