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Best of the Spectator

Home to the Spectator’s best podcasts on everything from politics to religion, literature to food and drink, and more. A new podcast every day from writers worth listening to.

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Coffee House Shots: will the issue of trust decide the election? Dec 06, 2019

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With Fraser Nelson and James Forsyth.
Presented by Katy Balls.
Coffee House Shots is a series of podcasts on British politics from the Spectator's political team and special guests. Brought to you daily, click here to find more episodes that are not released on Spectator Radio.

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The Edition: Nightmare on Downing St Dec 05, 2019

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With just a week to go until polling day, we take a look at what Corbyn’s Britain would look like (00:45). Plus, is planting more trees the panacea to climate change (16:15)? And last, how young is too young to have political opinions (28:15)?
With Liam Halligan, Michael Jacobs, Jamie Blackett, Will Skeaping, Andrew Watts, Freddy Gray, Gus Gray and Mary Wakefield.
Presented by Cindy Yu and Katy Balls.
Produced by Cindy Yu, Matt Taylor and Gus Carter.

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The Book Club: Tom Holland on Christianity's enduring influence Dec 04, 2019

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In this week's Book Club, Sam's guest is the historian Tom Holland, author of the new book Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind. The book, though as Tom remarks, you might not know it from the cover, is essentially a history of Christianity -- and an account of the myriad ways, many of them invisible to us, that it has shaped and continues to shape Western culture. It's a book and an argument that takes us from Ancient Babylon to Harvey Weinstein's hotel room, draws in the Beatles and the Nazis, and orbits around two giant figures: St Paul and Nietzsche. Is there a single discernible, distinctive Christian way of thinking? Is secularism Christianity by other means? And are our modern-day culture wars between alt-righters and woke progressives a post-Christian phenomenon or, as Tom argues, essentially a civil war between two Christian sects?
The Book Club, what used to be known as Spectator Books, is a series of literary interviews and discussions on the latest releases in the world of publishing, from poetry through to physics. Presented by Sam Leith, The Spectator's Literary Editor. Hear past episodes here.

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Table Talk: with Dr Max Pemberton Dec 03, 2019

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Max Pemberton is a Daily Mail columnist and medical doctor specialising in mental health and eating disorders. On the podcast, he talks about his milkman father and activist mother and what family mealtimes were like, remembering to eat on shifts as a junior doctor, and dissuading patients with serious eating disorders of the 'clean eating' religion.
Table Talk is a series of podcasts where Lara Prendergast and Olivia Potts talk to celebrity guests about their life story, through the food and drink that has come to define it. Listen to past episodes here.

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Women with Balls Election Special: who would want to be an MP? Dec 02, 2019

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Why would any woman want to be an MP in this general election? In recent years, parliament has been plagued by horror stories of abuse against MPs, especially female ones, with a number of them leaving the job before their time. So does parliament have a woman problem? Katy Balls speaks to a series of guests, especially a handful of the young women who are looking to join parliament this election.
With Paul Goodman, Isabel Hardman, Inaya Folarin Iman, Rebecca Smith, Danielle Rowley and Claire Coutinho.
Women With Balls is a podcast series where Katy Balls speak to women at the top of their respective games. To hear past episodes, visit spectator.co.uk/balls.

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The Edition: can Boris make it? Nov 28, 2019

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With two weeks to go until the election, the latest polling shows a majority of 68 for the Conservative party. So can anything still trip Boris Johnson up (00:50)? One of those events could be Trump’s visit next week – so how high are the stakes there (17:10)? And last, what led to the failure of the Israeli kibbutz (28:35)?
With James Forsyth, Paul Goodman, Sir Christopher Meyer, Kate Andrews and Johan Norberg.
Presented by Cindy Yu and Katy Balls.
Produced by Cindy Yu and Matt Taylor.

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That's Life: with Geoff Norcott Nov 27, 2019

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Comedian Geoff Norcott joins journalist Benedict Spence and comedy club founder Andy Shaw on the new podcast from Spectator Life. ‘That’s Life’ is a sideways look at the events, people, words and ideas that shape the news agenda. Andy and Benedict talk to Geoff about self-partnering, Pizza Express and what it’s like to come out as a right-wing comic.
Geoff is the token Leave-voter on the BBC show ‘The Mash Report’ and he's currently embarking on a national tour of his latest show 'Taking Liberties'. He's written for The Daily Telegraph, The Independent and Spiked.
To hear more episodes, click here.

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Book Club: The Who's Pete Townshend on his new novel Nov 27, 2019

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Sam's guest in this week’s Book Club is the rock musician, writer and sometime Faber editor Pete Townshend. Pete has just published his first novel The Age of Anxiety, an ambitious work jointly conceived as an opera. They talk about madness and creativity, Who lyrics popping up in the fiction, how he settled on an Aristotelian plot, and the unusual way his psychic second wife sends him off to sleep.
The Spectator Book Club, what used to be known as Spectator Books, is a series of literary interviews and discussions on the latest releases in the world of publishing, from poetry through to physics. Presented by Sam Leith, The Spectator's Literary Editor. Hear past episodes here.

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Podcast Special: Can factories be decarbonised? Nov 26, 2019

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Cement, steel, and other industrial companies produce a third of greenhouse gases in the world today; and nearly a quarter of British emissions. There is no reaching Net Zero without decarbonising these sectors, or at least cutting their emissions. So how can it be done, and done in an egalitarian way that doesn't threaten jobs or consumers? Fraser Nelson talks to Magnus Hall, CEO of Swedish energy company Vattenfall, that thinks it might have the answers; Gareth Stace, head of UK Steel; and Nadhim Zahawi, minister for Business and Industry at BEIS.
Sponsored by Vattenfall.

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Can the Tory poll lead be trusted? Nov 25, 2019

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With James Forsyth and Fraser Nelson.
Presented by Katy Balls.

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