TALKING POLITICS
Coronavirus! Climate! Brexit! Trump! Politics has never been more unpredictable, more alarming or more interesting: Talking Politics is the podcast that tries to make sense of it all. Every week David Runciman and Helen Thompson talk to the most interesting people around about the ideas and events that shape our world: from history to economics, from philosophy to fiction. What does the future hold?
Can democracy survive? How crazy will it get? This is the political conversation that matters.
Talking Politics is brought to you in partnership with the London Review of Books, Europe's leading magazine of books and ideas.
Podcasts
New Podcast: Where Are You Going?
Published: April 24, 2023, 11:12 a.m.Duration: 3 minutes 39 seconds
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New Podcast: Past Present Future
Published: April 21, 2023, 9:12 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 18 seconds
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Helen Thompson/Disorder
Published: Feb. 24, 2022, 1 a.m.Duration: 46 minutes 55 seconds
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The Meaning of Macron
Published: Feb. 17, 2022, 1 a.m.Duration: 45 minutes 27 seconds
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The Meaning of Boris Johnson
Published: Feb. 10, 2022, 1 a.m.Duration: 52 minutes 56 seconds
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American Civil War?
Published: Jan. 20, 2022, 1 a.m.Duration: 53 minutes 39 seconds
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Boris: The Ghost of Christmas Present
Published: Dec. 23, 2021, 1 a.m.Duration: 49 minutes 51 seconds
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1848 and All That
Published: Dec. 16, 2021, 5:54 a.m.Duration: 52 minutes 32 seconds
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Supply Chains, Inflation & the Metaverse
Published: Dec. 2, 2021, 1 a.m.Duration: 56 minutes 33 seconds
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Where is China Heading?
Published: Nov. 18, 2021, 1 a.m.Duration: 47 minutes 31 seconds
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Climate Ambition vs Energy Reality
Published: Nov. 4, 2021, 1 a.m.Duration: 51 minutes 55 seconds
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Free with Lea Ypi
Published: Oct. 21, 2021, midnightDuration: 56 minutes 51 seconds
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Shutdown/Confronting Leviathan
Published: Sept. 23, 2021, midnightDuration: 1 hour 4 minutes 30 seconds
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Q & A with Helen and David: Trump and Everything Else
Published: July 8, 2021, midnightDuration: 53 minutes 42 seconds
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Q & A With Helen and David: UK Politics and the Union
Published: July 1, 2021, midnightDuration: 58 minutes 8 seconds
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Q & A with Helen and David: Geopolitics
Published: June 24, 2021, midnightDuration: 50 minutes 10 seconds
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Ed Miliband's Big Ideas
Published: June 17, 2021, midnightDuration: 45 minutes 10 seconds
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Covid-Union-Labour-Brexit-Climate
Published: June 10, 2021, midnightDuration: 45 minutes 56 seconds
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Why Constitutions Matter
Published: June 3, 2021, midnightDuration: 44 minutes 47 seconds
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England, Their England
Published: May 27, 2021, midnightDuration: 44 minutes 20 seconds
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Niall Ferguson on Catastrophe
Published: May 20, 2021, midnightDuration: 36 minutes 14 seconds
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Michael Lewis on the Pandemic
Published: May 6, 2021, midnightDuration: 46 minutes 30 seconds
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After Merkel, What?
Published: April 29, 2021, midnightDuration: 47 minutes 11 seconds
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Union at the Crossroads
Published: April 22, 2021, midnightDuration: 44 minutes 42 seconds
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Wales, England and the Future of the UK
Published: April 15, 2021, midnightDuration: 43 minutes 22 seconds
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How's Biden Doing
Published: April 1, 2021, midnightDuration: 38 minutes 40 seconds
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The Tragic Choices of Climate Change
Published: March 18, 2021, 1 a.m.Duration: 44 minutes 25 seconds
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Northern Ireland: Past, Present, Future
Published: March 4, 2021, 1 a.m.Duration: 48 minutes 10 seconds
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What Does Jeremy Think?
Published: Feb. 25, 2021, 1 a.m.Duration: 44 minutes 8 seconds
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Rating the Government on Covid
Published: Feb. 11, 2021, 1 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 10 seconds
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History of Ideas S2 E1 : Rousseau on Inequality
Published: Feb. 2, 2021, 8:30 a.m.Duration: 47 minutes 55 seconds
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Germany, Italy, Coalitions and Vaccines
Published: Jan. 28, 2021, 1 a.m.Duration: 45 minutes 11 seconds
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The Long-term Legacy of Brexit
Published: Jan. 14, 2021, 1 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 57 seconds
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Jill Lepore on the Insurrection
Published: Jan. 11, 2021, 10:42 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 50 seconds
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New Year, New World?
Published: Jan. 7, 2021, 1 a.m.Duration: 52 minutes 55 seconds
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How to Fix British Democracy?
Published: Jan. 3, 2021, 1 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 46 seconds
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Did Covid Kill the Climate?
Published: Dec. 31, 2020, 1 a.m.Duration: 40 minutes 1 second
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Where is the Opposition?
Published: Dec. 17, 2020, 1 a.m.Duration: 44 minutes 30 seconds
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What's Next for France and Italy?
Published: Dec. 10, 2020, 1 a.m.Duration: 39 minutes 15 seconds
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From Brexit to Scottish Independence
Published: Dec. 3, 2020, 1 a.m.Duration: 43 minutes 55 seconds
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Young People vs Joe Biden
Published: Nov. 26, 2020, 1 a.m.Duration: 52 minutes 53 seconds
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Post-Covid Economics
Published: Nov. 19, 2020, 6:24 a.m.Duration: 45 minutes 27 seconds
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War: What Is it Good For?
Published: Nov. 11, 2020, 11:59 p.m.Duration: 38 minutes 1 second
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What Just Happened?
Published: Nov. 4, 2020, 9:38 p.m.Duration: 52 minutes 20 seconds
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Are Young People Losing Faith in Democracy?
Published: Nov. 2, 2020, 4:43 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 51 seconds
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China, Climate, Covid: The New Energy Map
Published: Nov. 1, 2020, 8:30 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 32 seconds
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What Trump Means to Us
Published: Oct. 29, 2020, 1 a.m.Duration: 41 minutes 30 seconds
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Democracy for Sale
Published: Oct. 22, 2020, midnightDuration: 45 minutes 35 seconds
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Trump Stress Test
Published: Oct. 15, 2020, midnightDuration: 47 minutes 35 seconds
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Can Boris Survive Brexit?
Published: Oct. 8, 2020, midnightDuration: 53 minutes 30 seconds
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Michael Sandel on the Case Against Meritocracy
Published: Sept. 24, 2020, midnightDuration: 52 minutes 40 seconds
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Robert Harris and V2
Published: Sept. 20, 2020, midnightDuration: 30 minutes 42 seconds
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Jill Lepore on the Destructive Power of Tech
Published: Sept. 17, 2020, midnightDuration: 42 minutes 15 seconds
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The Incompetence of Boris Johnson
Published: Sept. 10, 2020, midnightDuration: 46 minutes 14 seconds
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The Politics of Loneliness
Published: Sept. 3, 2020, midnightDuration: 44 minutes 49 seconds
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Thomas Piketty: Three Years On
Published: Aug. 27, 2020, midnightDuration: 42 minutes 2 seconds
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Has Covid Rescued Europe?
Published: Aug. 20, 2020, midnightDuration: 42 minutes 30 seconds
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Judith Butler: Then and Now
Published: Aug. 13, 2020, midnightDuration: 59 minutes 27 seconds
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Brexit, Trump and Aldershot FC
Published: Aug. 6, 2020, midnightDuration: 43 minutes 59 seconds
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Whose Work is it Anyway?
Published: July 30, 2020, midnightDuration: 42 minutes 48 seconds
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Revisiting Yuval Harari
Published: July 23, 2020, midnightDuration: 45 minutes 56 seconds
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Twilight of Democracy
Published: July 16, 2020, midnightDuration: 42 minutes 27 seconds
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Helen's History of Ideas
Published: July 9, 2020, midnightDuration: 48 minutes 17 seconds
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James Meek on Healthcare: from WHO to NHS
Published: July 5, 2020, midnightDuration: 37 minutes 16 seconds
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Brexit in the Age of Covid
Published: July 2, 2020, midnightDuration: 44 minutes 30 seconds
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Burma's Hidden History
Published: June 28, 2020, midnightDuration: 47 minutes 24 seconds
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Britain Wrestles with its Past
Published: June 25, 2020, midnightDuration: 47 minutes 22 seconds
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American Fascism: Then and Now
Published: June 18, 2020, midnightDuration: 47 minutes 25 seconds
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What Just Happened at the New York Times?
Published: June 8, 2020, 7:48 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 49 seconds
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Dan Snow on Covid History (and Cummings)
Published: May 28, 2020, midnightDuration: 47 minutes 21 seconds
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Bread, Cement, Cactus
Published: May 24, 2020, midnightDuration: 54 minutes 7 seconds
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Labour and Brexit: Beyond the Crisis
Published: May 14, 2020, midnightDuration: 44 minutes 49 seconds
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Ebola, COVID and the WHO
Published: May 7, 2020, 5:46 a.m.Duration: 49 minutes 24 seconds
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David Miliband on the Crisis
Published: April 30, 2020, midnightDuration: 42 minutes 15 seconds
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History of Ideas: Wollstonecraft on Sexual Politics
Published: April 28, 2020, 8 a.m.Duration: 47 minutes 8 seconds
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History of Ideas: Hobbes on the State
Published: April 27, 2020, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 hour
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What's Happening in Italy Now?
Published: April 26, 2020, midnightDuration: 27 minutes 36 seconds
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Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS
Published: April 23, 2020, 7:14 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 12 seconds
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Adam Tooze/Shockwave
Published: April 20, 2020, 9:25 p.m.Duration: 52 minutes 33 seconds
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British Politics: The Big Reset?
Published: April 16, 2020, midnightDuration: 43 minutes 15 seconds
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In Praise of Hilary Mantel
Published: April 12, 2020, midnightDuration: 41 minutes 29 seconds
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Can America Cope?
Published: April 9, 2020, midnightDuration: 48 minutes 32 seconds
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States of Emergency
Published: April 2, 2020, midnightDuration: 48 minutes 47 seconds
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Tara Westover/Educated
Published: March 29, 2020, 1 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 7 seconds
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From Cholera to Coronavirus
Published: March 28, 2020, 1 a.m.Duration: 38 minutes 29 seconds
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Co-operation or Conflict?
Published: March 26, 2020, 12:40 a.m.Duration: 45 minutes 10 seconds
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The View from Italy
Published: March 22, 2020, 9:56 p.m.Duration: 41 minutes 42 seconds
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Adam Tooze Part 2
Published: March 19, 2020, 9:32 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 31 seconds
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Adam Tooze on the Crisis
Published: March 19, 2020, 1:22 a.m.Duration: 43 minutes 46 seconds
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Super Tuesday Special: Biden's Back!
Published: March 4, 2020, 11:51 p.m.Duration: 53 minutes 23 seconds
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Blair's Labour and Johnson's Brexit
Published: Feb. 27, 2020, 1 a.m.Duration: 48 minutes 27 seconds
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Michael Ignatieff on the Future of Democracy
Published: Feb. 23, 2020, 1 a.m.Duration: 54 minutes 35 seconds
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Sinn Fein and Sardines
Published: Feb. 13, 2020, 1 a.m.Duration: 49 minutes 38 seconds
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Are We Losing Faith in Democracy?
Published: Jan. 30, 2020, 1 a.m.Duration: 44 minutes 50 seconds
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Trump vs Iran: Is it for Real?
Published: Jan. 23, 2020, 1 a.m.Duration: 45 minutes 30 seconds
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Predictions for 2030 with Azeem Azhar
Published: Jan. 19, 2020, 1 a.m.Duration: 40 minutes 48 seconds
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What's the Future for Labour?
Published: Jan. 16, 2020, 1:54 a.m.Duration: 47 minutes 45 seconds
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The Great Abortion Switcheroo
Published: Jan. 9, 2020, 1 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 17 seconds
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The 15th and the 19th
Published: Jan. 2, 2020, 1 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 49 seconds
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Monopoly and Muckraking
Published: Dec. 29, 2019, 1 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 1 second
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Pornography and the Post Office
Published: Dec. 26, 2019, 1 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 20 seconds
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Impeaching the President
Published: Dec. 22, 2019, 1 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 44 seconds
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American Histories Trailer
Published: Dec. 20, 2019, 12:51 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 6 seconds
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Michael Lewis on Donald Trump
Published: Dec. 18, 2019, 11:20 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 56 seconds
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Johnson Gets His Mandate
Published: Dec. 14, 2019, 4:26 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 30 seconds
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Some Brexit Scenarios
Published: Dec. 11, 2019, 11:31 p.m.Duration: 43 minutes 32 seconds
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What if Remain Had Won...?
Published: Dec. 5, 2019, 1 a.m.Duration: 48 minutes 5 seconds
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Tech Election - Part 2
Published: Nov. 28, 2019, 1 a.m.Duration: 51 minutes 33 seconds
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Tech Election - Part 1
Published: Nov. 24, 2019, 1 a.m.Duration: 54 minutes 11 seconds
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Party like it's 1974
Published: Nov. 21, 2019, 1 a.m.Duration: 48 minutes 56 seconds
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One Election or Many?
Published: Nov. 14, 2019, 1 a.m.Duration: 47 minutes 53 seconds
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Rory Stewart
Published: Oct. 30, 2019, 11:50 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 20 seconds
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Inside the Bubble with Ayesha Hazarika: Live!
Published: Oct. 17, 2019, 4:46 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 40 seconds
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December Elections: Live Special!
Published: Oct. 7, 2019, 9:08 p.m.Duration: 42 minutes 42 seconds
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Cameron's Referendum
Published: Oct. 3, 2019, midnightDuration: 49 minutes 4 seconds
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Supreme Court II & Italy!
Published: Sept. 25, 2019, 10:04 p.m.Duration: 45 minutes 23 seconds
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Re-Engineering Humanity
Published: Sept. 22, 2019, midnightDuration: 35 minutes 40 seconds
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He's Still There (Just)
Published: Sept. 12, 2019, 1:18 a.m.Duration: 45 minutes 54 seconds
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Adam Tooze on the Global Slowdown
Published: Sept. 8, 2019, midnightDuration: 48 minutes 47 seconds
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Talking Politics Guide to ... Marriage
Published: Sept. 1, 2019, 8:25 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 13 seconds
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538 Cross Over Special : Is Britain In The Middle Of A Constitutional Crisis?
Published: Aug. 30, 2019, 7:43 a.m.Duration: 45 minutes 52 seconds
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Where Power Stops
Published: Aug. 29, 2019, midnightDuration: 35 minutes 56 seconds
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Talking Politics Guide to ... European Union before the EU
Published: Aug. 25, 2019, midnightDuration: 28 minutes 30 seconds
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Talking Politics Guide to ... The UK Constitution
Published: Aug. 22, 2019, midnightDuration: 28 minutes 25 seconds
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Jill Lepore on the American Nation
Published: Aug. 18, 2019, midnightDuration: 39 minutes 27 seconds
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Talking Politics Guide to ... Being a Civil Servant
Published: Aug. 15, 2019, midnightDuration: 30 minutes 51 seconds
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Talking Politics Guide to ... The Euro
Published: Aug. 11, 2019, midnightDuration: 29 minutes 28 seconds
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Talking Politics Guide to ... The Chinese Communist Party
Published: Aug. 4, 2019, midnightDuration: 28 minutes 35 seconds
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Talking Politics Guide to ... The Gilded Age
Published: Aug. 1, 2019, midnightDuration: 31 minutes
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Autumn of Chaos
Published: July 24, 2019, 10:22 p.m.Duration: 46 minutes 13 seconds
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Waiting for Boris
Published: July 18, 2019, midnightDuration: 46 minutes 57 seconds
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The Party Splits! (In 1846!)
Published: June 20, 2019, midnightDuration: 52 minutes 20 seconds
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Who is Boris Johnson?
Published: June 13, 2019, midnightDuration: 47 minutes 42 seconds
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Constitutional Breakdown
Published: June 6, 2019, midnightDuration: 44 minutes 28 seconds
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Split Down the Middle
Published: May 28, 2019, 9:22 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 22 seconds
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Death of the Republic
Published: May 16, 2019, midnightDuration: 45 minutes 12 seconds
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Adam Tooze on US vs China
Published: May 12, 2019, midnightDuration: 29 minutes 13 seconds
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A Mockery of Democracy?
Published: May 2, 2019, midnightDuration: 47 minutes 49 seconds
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David King on Climate Repair
Published: April 30, 2019, 2:23 p.m.Duration: 48 minutes 55 seconds
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Paul Mason on the Human Future
Published: April 25, 2019, midnightDuration: 57 minutes 45 seconds
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The Copernican Principle
Published: April 18, 2019, midnightDuration: 37 minutes 44 seconds
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Brexit Lessons
Published: April 10, 2019, 10:43 p.m.Duration: 43 minutes 31 seconds
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Trump After Mueller
Published: April 7, 2019, 6:13 a.m.Duration: 41 minutes 1 second
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May Rolls the Dice
Published: April 4, 2019, midnightDuration: 47 minutes 45 seconds
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Uninhabitable Earth
Published: March 24, 2019, 1 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 20 seconds
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Italy vs France vs Brexit
Published: March 21, 2019, 1 a.m.Duration: 42 minutes 38 seconds
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Can This Go On?
Published: March 18, 2019, 10:57 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 42 seconds
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Best Political Novels
Published: Feb. 28, 2019, 1 a.m.Duration: 44 minutes 15 seconds
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The Nightmare of Surveillance Capitalism
Published: Feb. 14, 2019, 1 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 12 seconds
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The Problem with Political Leaders
Published: Jan. 31, 2019, 1 a.m.Duration: 41 minutes
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Trump and the Shutdown
Published: Jan. 24, 2019, 1 a.m.Duration: 51 minutes 15 seconds
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Adam Tooze on Europe
Published: Jan. 20, 2019, 1 a.m.Duration: 40 minutes 50 seconds
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Talking Politics Guide to ... Existential Risk
Published: Jan. 10, 2019, 1 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 47 seconds
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Talking Politics Guide to ... Bretton Woods
Published: Jan. 6, 2019, 1 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 42 seconds
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Talking Politics Guide to ... Deliberative Democracy
Published: Jan. 3, 2019, 1 a.m.Duration: 22 minutes 43 seconds
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Talking Politics Guide to ... Human Rights in the Digital Age
Published: Dec. 30, 2018, 1 a.m.Duration: 25 minutes 29 seconds
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Talking Politics Guide to ... Facebook
Published: Dec. 27, 2018, 1 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 50 seconds
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Talking Politics Guide to ... Economic Well-being
Published: Dec. 23, 2018, 1 a.m.Duration: 25 minutes 32 seconds
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Talking Politics Guide to ... the US Constitution
Published: Dec. 20, 2018, 1 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 38 seconds
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The Fate of Theresa May
Published: Dec. 13, 2018, 1 a.m.Duration: 54 minutes 59 seconds
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Democracy For Young People
Published: Dec. 6, 2018, 1 a.m.Duration: 41 minutes 29 seconds
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What's happening in Brazil?
Published: Nov. 11, 2018, 1 a.m.Duration: 42 minutes 12 seconds
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Midterms special!
Published: Nov. 7, 2018, 11:27 p.m.Duration: 52 minutes 34 seconds
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How Bad Could it Get?
Published: Oct. 25, 2018, midnightDuration: 43 minutes 3 seconds
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Gandhi's Politics
Published: Oct. 21, 2018, midnightDuration: 29 minutes 45 seconds
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Talking Politics Guide to ... Turkey
Published: Aug. 23, 2018, midnightDuration: 21 minutes 38 seconds
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Talking Politics Guide to ... Nuclear Weapons
Published: Aug. 19, 2018, midnightDuration: 30 minutes 40 seconds
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Talking Politics Guide to ... Machine Learning
Published: Aug. 16, 2018, midnightDuration: 23 minutes 55 seconds
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Talking Politics Guide to ... Distributive Justice
Published: Aug. 12, 2018, midnightDuration: 27 minutes 5 seconds
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The Politics of Food
Published: Aug. 9, 2018, midnightDuration: 33 minutes 30 seconds
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Talking Politics Guide to ... Technocracy
Published: Aug. 5, 2018, midnightDuration: 25 minutes 20 seconds
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Talking Politics Guide to ... American Foreign Policy
Published: Aug. 2, 2018, midnightDuration: 26 minutes 55 seconds
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Talking Politics Guide to ... Summer Reading
Published: July 29, 2018, midnightDuration: 20 minutes
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Talking Politics Guide to . . . the 1970s
Published: July 26, 2018, midnightDuration: 23 minutes 54 seconds
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Trump Blows Through
Published: July 19, 2018, midnightDuration: 52 minutes 28 seconds
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The Next Referendum?
Published: July 12, 2018, midnightDuration: 52 minutes 45 seconds
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World Cup Politics
Published: July 5, 2018, midnightDuration: 44 minutes 56 seconds
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Populism, Migration and Merkel
Published: June 27, 2018, 11:44 p.m.Duration: 57 minutes 9 seconds
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Andrew O'Hagan on Grenfell
Published: June 21, 2018, midnightDuration: 54 minutes 10 seconds
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Socialism in this Country?
Published: May 31, 2018, midnightDuration: 42 minutes 37 seconds
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Iran, Israel, Korea, the World
Published: May 24, 2018, midnightDuration: 43 minutes 1 second
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The Politics of Mental Health
Published: May 17, 2018, midnightDuration: 39 minutes 24 seconds
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How Democracy Ends - The Book
Published: May 6, 2018, midnightDuration: 29 minutes 7 seconds
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What's wrong with GDP?
Published: May 3, 2018, midnightDuration: 45 minutes 14 seconds
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The End of the Party?
Published: April 12, 2018, midnightDuration: 45 minutes 39 seconds
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James Meek on the NHS
Published: April 5, 2018, midnightDuration: 46 minutes 5 seconds
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Facebook vs the World
Published: March 29, 2018, midnightDuration: 44 minutes 36 seconds
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Bridget Kendall on Russia
Published: March 22, 2018, 1 a.m.Duration: 54 minutes 39 seconds
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Italy, Germany and the Future of Europe
Published: March 7, 2018, 1 a.m.Duration: 39 minutes 44 seconds
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Ed Miliband & Geoff Lloyd
Published: March 1, 2018, 1 a.m.Duration: 39 minutes 15 seconds
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Who is Jeremy Corbyn?
Published: Feb. 22, 2018, 1 a.m.Duration: 45 minutes 40 seconds
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A Second Referendum?
Published: Feb. 1, 2018, 1 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 24 seconds
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Nadia Urbinati on Italy
Published: Jan. 25, 2018, 1 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 41 seconds
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Reformation Then and Now
Published: Jan. 11, 2018, 1 a.m.Duration: 42 minutes 11 seconds
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Nobody Knows Anything
Published: Dec. 28, 2017, 1 a.m.Duration: 55 minutes 46 seconds
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Jan-Werner Muller on Populism
Published: Nov. 16, 2017, 1 a.m.Duration: 44 minutes 5 seconds
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Trump and Tax Havens
Published: Nov. 9, 2017, 1 a.m.Duration: 48 minutes 29 seconds
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Brexit and the Universities
Published: Nov. 2, 2017, 6:29 a.m.Duration: 48 minutes 51 seconds
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Where is the Centre?
Published: Oct. 5, 2017, midnightDuration: 41 minutes 58 seconds
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The Mystery of Germany
Published: Sept. 21, 2017, 5:44 a.m.Duration: 42 minutes 4 seconds
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Trump and Religion
Published: Sept. 7, 2017, midnightDuration: 42 minutes 39 seconds
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Macron and History
Published: Aug. 21, 2017, midnightDuration: 28 minutes 45 seconds
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America, Russia, Venezuela, France
Published: Aug. 17, 2017, midnightDuration: 44 minutes 30 seconds
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The Nine Dots Winner
Published: Aug. 3, 2017, midnightDuration: 30 minutes 47 seconds
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SUMMER READING 2
Published: July 27, 2017, 5:28 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 31 seconds
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Crisis, What Crisis?
Published: June 22, 2017, midnightDuration: 44 minutes 41 seconds
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Tim O'Reilly and the WTF Economy
Published: May 27, 2017, midnightDuration: 22 minutes 51 seconds
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The Who, The What, The How
Published: May 25, 2017, midnightDuration: 39 minutes 47 seconds
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The Meaning of UKIP
Published: May 11, 2017, midnightDuration: 40 minutes 18 seconds
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Scotland and the Union
Published: April 27, 2017, midnightDuration: 39 minutes 1 second
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Power in the Digital Age
Published: April 6, 2017, midnightDuration: 35 minutes 33 seconds
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Richard Dearlove
Published: March 30, 2017, midnightDuration: 46 minutes 50 seconds
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Chris Clark/Germany and India
Published: March 23, 2017, 1 a.m.Duration: 43 minutes 55 seconds
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Patience Wheatcroft/Brexit
Published: March 16, 2017, 8:14 a.m.Duration: 49 minutes 42 seconds
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Is Democracy Failing?
Published: Feb. 9, 2017, 1 a.m.Duration: 38 minutes 56 seconds
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Mrs May Goes to Washington
Published: Feb. 2, 2017, 1 a.m.Duration: 38 minutes 43 seconds
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What Next for Labour?
Published: Jan. 12, 2017, 1 a.m.Duration: 40 minutes 30 seconds
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Talking Politics/New Statesman PART 1
Published: Dec. 22, 2016, 1 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 10 seconds
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Italy: What's Next?
Published: Dec. 8, 2016, 6:49 a.m.Duration: 36 minutes 28 seconds
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Live Special - Trump and History
Published: Oct. 19, 2016, 11:11 p.m.Duration: 54 minutes 26 seconds
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Conspiracy Theories and the Second Debate
Published: Oct. 13, 2016, midnightDuration: 42 minutes 36 seconds
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Dilemmas of Brexit
Published: Oct. 6, 2016, midnightDuration: 37 minutes 38 seconds
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The First Debate
Published: Sept. 29, 2016, midnightDuration: 27 minutes 31 seconds
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Yuval Noah Harari
Published: Sept. 22, 2016, midnightDuration: 33 minutes 42 seconds
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TALKING POLITICS
Published: Sept. 15, 2016, 8:02 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 23 seconds
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The Chilcot Report with Glen Rangwala
Published: July 8, 2016, 8:18 a.m.Duration: 36 minutes 44 seconds
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S02-EP15 It's Brexit! One week on.
Published: July 1, 2016, 8:37 a.m.Duration: 45 minutes 23 seconds
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The UK decides: it's Brexit!
Published: June 25, 2016, 10:27 a.m.Duration: 38 minutes 44 seconds
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S02-EP14 Indiana decides: it's Trump!
Published: May 5, 2016, 8:17 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 12 seconds
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S02-EP 13 Paul Cartledge on democracy ancient and modern: what can we learn from Greeks?
Published: April 14, 2016, 8:18 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 4 seconds
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S02-EP12 Anand Menon on how to sort fact from fiction in the EU referendum debate.
Published: April 7, 2016, 8:29 a.m.Duration: 54 minutes 26 seconds
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S02 - EP11 - John Judis on 'the emerging Democratic majority' and the perils of predicting where America might be heading.
Published: March 31, 2016, 9:18 a.m.Duration: 56 minutes 43 seconds
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S02-EP10 Jim Naughtie with his tales from the primary campaign trail
Published: March 24, 2016, 10:14 a.m.Duration: 55 minutes 11 seconds
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S02-EP09 Leading US polling analyst Sean Trende on what Trumpism really means for American democracy.
Published: March 17, 2016, 12:24 p.m.Duration: 52 minutes 19 seconds
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S02-EP08 Jeremy Cliffe of the Economist on Brexit, the future of the UK and the fate of David Cameron.
Published: March 10, 2016, 9:35 a.m.Duration: 56 minutes 13 seconds
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S02-EP07 Xenia Wickett on America's place in the world and what the world makes of this extraordinary election.
Published: March 3, 2016, 9:33 a.m.Duration: 56 minutes 21 seconds
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S02-EP06 David McWilliams on Ireland, talking bail-outs and the blame game.
Published: Feb. 25, 2016, 10:34 a.m.Duration: 56 minutes 49 seconds
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S02-EP05 - Gary Gerstle on police power and paranoia in US politics, plus we talk Uganda.
Published: Feb. 18, 2016, 9:13 a.m.Duration: 56 minutes 9 seconds
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S02-EP04 - Athene Donald on women in science, scientists in politics and why Britain needs to stay in Europe.
Published: Feb. 11, 2016, 8:46 a.m.Duration: 44 minutes 38 seconds
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S02-EP03 - Bill Janeway on Silicon Valley, inequality and presidential politics in the age of Google.
Published: Feb. 4, 2016, 9:37 a.m.Duration: 54 minutes 14 seconds
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S02-EP02 - Anne-Marie Slaughter talks about what is making Americans so fearful and the difference it would make to have a grandmother in the White House.
Published: Jan. 28, 2016, 9:29 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 8 seconds
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S02-EP01 - Jackie Ashley discusses the state of the Labour party and whether we are seeing a new kind of politics.
Published: Jan. 21, 2016, 9:42 a.m.Duration: 48 minutes 10 seconds
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S01-EP17 The Election Podcast returns for a special edition, recorded in front of a live audience as part of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas 2015
Published: Oct. 27, 2015, 8:36 a.m.Duration: 59 minutes 53 seconds
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S01-EP16 - FINALE: Remembering a remarkable election PLUS Lord Grabiner on the Human Rights Act, the future of Labour & the lessons of Tony Blair
Published: May 27, 2015, 2:23 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes 15 seconds
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S01-EP15 - Richard Danbury on television debates, old vs new media & the BBC
Published: May 20, 2015, 2:13 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 11 seconds
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S01-EP14 - ELECTION RESULT SPECIAL: Former guests discuss the outcome PLUS Chris Huhne on the Lib Dem collapse, electoral reform & the future of progressive politics
Published: May 13, 2015, 1:55 p.m.Duration: 51 minutes 5 seconds
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S01-EP13 - David Howarth on winning an election, Polling Day & the future of democracy
Published: May 6, 2015, 1:18 p.m.Duration: 52 minutes 22 seconds
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S01-EP12 - Richard N. Haass on foreign policy, the US perspective & Northern Ireland
Published: April 29, 2015, 2:15 p.m.Duration: 48 minutes 18 seconds
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S01-EP11 - Sherry Coutu on education, stimulating business & coalitions
Published: April 22, 2015, 12:39 p.m.Duration: 43 minutes 3 seconds
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S01-EP10 - Barbara Sahakian on psychology, politics & well-being
Published: April 15, 2015, 3:22 p.m.Duration: 48 minutes 7 seconds
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S01-EP09 - Simon Szreter on conspiracy theories, trust in politics & solutions
Published: April 8, 2015, 6:45 p.m.Duration: 44 minutes 28 seconds
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S01-EP08 - Robert Tombs on Britishness, Britain's place in Europe & the NHS
Published: April 1, 2015, 6:20 p.m.Duration: 45 minutes 19 seconds
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S01-EP07 - SPECIAL: Michael Howard & Stephan Shakespeare on Margaret Thatcher, the true power of polls, and the impact of UKIP in 2015
Published: March 25, 2015, 3:04 p.m.Duration: 48 minutes 42 seconds
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S01-EP06 - Rae Langton on Charlie Hebdo, free speech vs hate speech & blasphemy
Published: March 18, 2015, 7:36 p.m.Duration: 45 minutes 53 seconds
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S01-EP05 - Clare Jackson on the United Kingdom, Scotland & the politics of memory
Published: March 11, 2015, 5:16 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes 38 seconds
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S01-EP04 - John Naughton on Facebook in Politics, Edward Snowden, & Surveillance
Published: March 4, 2015, 3:19 p.m.Duration: 43 minutes 31 seconds
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S01-EP03 - Martin Jacques on the global perspective, Britains decline, & Chinas rise
Published: Feb. 25, 2015, 1:36 p.m.Duration: 44 minutes 41 seconds
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S01-EP02 - Martin Rees on surviving this century, scientists in politics, and 2015
Published: Feb. 18, 2015, 4:07 p.m.Duration: 42 minutes 48 seconds
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S01-EP01 - Maurice Glasman on democracy, creative destruction and Wolf Hall
Published: Feb. 13, 2015, 2:38 p.m.Duration: 45 minutes 14 seconds
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