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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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Americano: what is the future of American conservatism? Jun 17, 2019

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With Daniel McCarthy, editor of Modern Age and Spectator USA contributor.
Presented by Freddy Gray.
Americano is a series of in-depth discussions on American politics with the best pundits stateside. Presented by Freddy Gray, editor of Spectator USA. Click here to listen to previous episodes.

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Isabel Hardman's Sunday Interviews Roundup - 16/06/19 Jun 16, 2019

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Isabel Hardman presents the highlights from Sunday's political interviews. Today's podcast features Jeremy Hunt, Rory Stewart, Dominic Raab, Amber Rudd, Andy Burnham and Kim Leadbeater. Produced by Matthew Taylor.

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Coffee House Shots: is an autumn general elections more likely than not? Jun 15, 2019

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With Katy Balls, Conservative Home's Paul Goodman, and the Mail on Sunday's Dan Hodges.
Presented by Cindy Yu.
Coffee House Shots is a series of podcasts on British politics from the Spectator's political team and special guests. Brought to you daily (and now even on Saturdays), click here to find more episodes that are not released on Spectator Radio.

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Women With Balls: Layla Moran Jun 14, 2019

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Layla Moran tells Katy Balls about her childhood as a diplomat's daughter, the social life of an MP, and getting arrested at Lib Dem conference.
Presented by Katy Balls.
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 Spectator Podcast: the strange triumph of eco-Toryism Jun 13, 2019

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This week, the government commits to a green target of net zero emissions by 2050 – but how costly will meeting it be (00:25)? And stateside, with the Mueller Report showing the extent of Trump’s meddling, should Democrats try to impeach him (11:30)? And last, are modern fathers taken for granted (22:25)?
With Lord Peter Lilley, Sam Richards, John Rick MacArthur, Karin Robinson, Cosmo Landesman, and Anna Machin.
Presented by Isabel Hardman.
Produced by Cindy Yu and Siva Thangarajah.

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Spectator Books: does tripping balls tell us anything profound about human consciousness? Jun 12, 2019

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This week’s books podcast promises to be a trip. Sam is joined by Mike Jay to talk about the history of mescaline — a psychedelic drug whose influence goes from the earliest South American civilisations through the 19th-century Indian Wars up to W B Yeats, Aleister Crowley and (of course) Aldous Huxley and Hunter S Thompson. Does tripping balls tell us anything profound about human consciousness? How come Mexico got all the good drugs? And why did Aldous Huxley lie about his trousers?
Presented by Sam Leith.
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 of Spectator Books here.

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Podcast Special: what is the future of British airpower? Jun 11, 2019

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The UK has committed to its biggest defence project in a generation: the development of a sixth-generation fighter jet. The government says the project, dubbed Team Tempest, will secure Britain’s status as a leading military power after Brexit. It also says the jet will make use of space-ace technologies - including x-ray vision for pilots - to provide one of the most powerful defence capabilities on earth. But with the Ministry of Defence already strapped for cash, is the project feasible? And what about the security landscape? Just who are these fighter jets intended to deter?
In this Podcast Special, Fraser Nelson spoke to Sir Roger Carr, chairman of BAE Systems, the company which intends to develop the jet and who are sponsoring the podcast; Vice-Marshal Simon Rochelle, the chief of staff capability for the Royal Air Force; and Douglas Barrie, an independent analyst with the defence think tank IISS.

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Coffee House Shots: Raab, Hancock, Hunt, and Gove launch their leadership campaigns Jun 10, 2019

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

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Coffee House Shots: 'I backed Gove, but here's why I back Boris now' - Robert Jenrick Jun 08, 2019

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With Robert Jenrick, Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, and Fraser Nelson.
Presented by Katy Balls.

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Podcast Special: can Britain achieve net zero emissions by 2050? Jun 07, 2019

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It’s obvious that we need to take action to slow down climate change, but given such a daunting task – it’s only saving the entire world... – where does one even start? The Climate Change Committee might have some of the answers. It reckons Britain can get to net zero emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050. So what needs to be done? In the Spectator’s latest policy podcast, Fraser Nelson gets to the bottom of these questions with Chris Stark, chief exec at the CCC, Laura Sandys, former Tory MP and Co-chair of the IPPR Environment and Justice Commission, and Jo Coleman, Energy Transitions Manager at Shell.
Sponsored by Shell.

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