A Covid Update
Rupert Beale and Thomas Jones, 18 May 2022
Rupert Beale returns to the podcast to talk to Tom about the current state of SARS-CoV-2 in the UK.
Rupert Beale returns to the podcast to talk to Tom about the current state of SARS-CoV-2 in the UK.
Azadeh Moaveni talks to Tom about the situation on the Polish border, where women and children fleeing Ukraine face numerous dangers, including kidnapping, trafficking and forced labour.
Andrew O’Hagan talks to Tom about the power of defunct objects, from the life-enhancing gadgets of his childhood to Seamus Heaney’s fax machine, and the role lost things play in fiction.
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite talks to Tom about how events in the 1960s, including the Aberfan disaster and a shift in strategy by the Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru, helped pave the way for devolution...
David, Helen and Catherine get together for the final episode of Talking Politics, to reflect on podcasting through six extraordinary years of politics, and what it means to be ending at the beginning...
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David talks to Shahin Vallee and Chris Bickerton about the upcoming French presidential elections and the Macron years so far. Can anything or anyone stop Macron? Why has French politics moved so far to...
David, Helen and Chris Brooke have one more go at making sense of the tangled web that is British politics. Can Johnson really survive, and even if he does, can his brand ever recover? Is this a scandal,...
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In the 1740s the Scots were invading England and the wearing of tartan was banned. By the 1850s, Queen Victoria had built her Gothic fantasy in Aberdeenshire and tartan was everywhere. What happened in...
In the first episode of a new four-part series looking at the way history was transformed in the Romantic period, Rosemary Hill is joined by Tom Stammers to consider how an argument over the ‘improvement’...
Building on her essay ‘Does anyone have the right to sex?’, first published in the LRB in 2018, The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan explores the political and cultural dimensions of sexual desire,...
Jacqueline Rose discusses her book On Violence and On Violence Against Women with Jude Kelly.
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