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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.

    The Book Club: Viet Thanh Nguyen

    The Book Club: Viet Thanh Nguyen

    In this week's Book Club podcast my guest is the Pulitzer prize winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen, whose new book is the memoir A Man of Two Faces. He tells me about the value of trauma to literature, learning about his history through Hollywood, falling asleep in class... and the rotten manners of Oliver Stone.

    • 42 min
    Table Talk: Gennaro Contaldo

    Table Talk: Gennaro Contaldo

    Gennaro Contaldo is an Italian chef, cookbook author and television presenter. He is also known as Jamie Oliver's mentor and Antonio Carluccio's travel partner on Two Greedy Italians. His latest cookbook Gennaro's Verdure – which celebrates seasonal vegetables – is out now. 

    On the podcast he tells Liv and Lara about his upbringing on the Amalfi coast, what he's learnt from Jamie Oliver and how he came to love fish and chips. 

    Photo credit: David Loftus 

    • 24 min
    Americano: why do Trump’s enemies always overreach?

    Americano: why do Trump’s enemies always overreach?

    Freddy Gray speaks to editor-at-large of the Wall Street Journal Gerry Baker about whether the media’s wrong reporting of Trump’s ‘bloodshed’ comments have played to his advantage; why America has lost trust in its institutions; and whether voters think the economy was better off under Trump. 

    • 36 min
    Americano: is America in decline?

    Americano: is America in decline?

    Freddy Gray speaks to political science researcher Richard Hanania about his (relative) optimism regarding the future of America, and how Sydney Sweeney might have 'ended wokeness'.

    • 27 min
    Spectator Out Loud: Richard Madeley, Kate Andrews, Lloyd Evans, Sam McPhail and Graeme Thomson

    Spectator Out Loud: Richard Madeley, Kate Andrews, Lloyd Evans, Sam McPhail and Graeme Thomson

    This week: Richard Madeley reads his diary (01:06), Kate Andrews describes how Kate-gate gripped America (06:18), Lloyd Evans warns against meddling with Shakespeare (11:38), Sam McPhail details how Cruyff changed modern football (18:17), and Graeme Thomson reads his interview with Roxy Music's Phil Manzanera (25:23). 

    Produced and presented by Oscar Edmondson. 

    • 35 min
    Americano: Trump vs luxury beliefs

    Americano: Trump vs luxury beliefs

    Freddy speaks to Rob Henderson, author of Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, in which he coins the term 'luxury beliefs'. These are certain beliefs held by a section of the elite which confirm and elevate the status of those who hold them. As a consequence, they can cause harm to those lower down the social strata. Is Donald Trump the antidote to America’s ‘luxury beliefs’ complex?

    • 28 min

Customer Reviews

4.5 out of 5
22 Ratings

22 Ratings

Crying At the bus stop ,

Bindel is Brilliant

Julie Bindel’s extraordinary series of conversations with men rates as among the most profound, positive and hopeful examinations of some of the key issues in feminism. Excruciating to grapple with the underlying authoritarianism behind the deplatforming of these clear headed thinkers. More please!

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Nuclear

It is nuc-lee- ar not nuc- u-lar . Grrrr

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Excellent- almost

Good insights but if Katie collects any more speech affectations, I may have to either scream or give up listening.

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