126 episodes
Weekend The Guardian
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4.7 • 33 Ratings
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Every Saturday, the Weekend podcast brings some of the best Guardian writing from the week, read by talented narrators. Listen to celebrity interviews, lifestyle features, and opinions from our most popular columnists including Marina Hyde and John Crace. Weekend is the perfect way to relax.
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Weekend podcast: ‘I was hammered on stage’ – David Harewood on racism and success; John Crace on ‘tetchy’ Rishi; the answer to insomnia hell; and Baby Reindeer fall out
Beware of ‘Tetchy Rishi’ – the prime minister struggles to control his anger during the Rwanda bill press briefing (1m24s); David Harewood on acting, racism and mental health (9m08s); Phil Daoust’s surprisingly simple solution to insomnia hell (24m33s); and Stuart Heritage examines the dangerous fallout from Netflix’s Baby Reindeer (42m29s)
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Weekend podcast: the extraordinary story of the biggest art fraud in American history, plus Zoe Williams on Liz Truss
Zoe Williams explores the greatest mystery of modern politics: Liz Truss’ self belief (1m15s), and Charlotte Edwardes delves into the extraordinary inside story of the biggest art fraud in American history (5m53s)
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Weekend podcast: what’s it like to be a sociopath?; Gen Z’s lust for Sex and the City; and Marina Hyde on President The Rock
Marina Hyde with her take on Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’s surreal US presidential bid (1m23s); Emine Saner meets the sociopath who learned to behave – and found happiness (8m05s); why Gen Z has fallen in love with Sex and the City (24m45s); and do our political opponents really hate us? (29m54s).
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Weekend podcast: Nick Cave on how grief shapes his art, Marina Hyde on the Thames Water crisis, and bread’s role in British society
This week, Marina Hyde discusses the Thames Water crisis after a sewage-plagued boat race (01:27); Simon Hattenstone interviews Nick Cave, who is about to exhibit his ceramic figurines at the Xavier Hufkens gallery, about art, love, politics and the death of his two sons (08:59); and Rachel Dixon investigates bread in Britain and what it tells us about health, wealth and class (28:52)
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Weekend podcast: Gillian Anderson on playing Emily Maitlis; Marina Hyde on the Tories’ misguided attack ad; and the quest to live to 100
This week, Marina Hyde discuss the Tories’ attack ad as they bid to unseat Sadiq Khan (01:54); Phil Daoust asks what can he change at 60 to make it to 100 (08:31); and Eva Wiseman interviews Gillian Anderson as she prepares to play Emily Maitlis in a drama about her interview with Prince Andrew (26:25)
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Weekend podcast: ‘We’re ready’ – Labour’s Angela Rayner takes on the Tories; and how an app sparked a late-life gender transition
If Labour gets into government, the deputy labour leader Angela Rayner will be one of the most powerful women in Britain. ‘Bring it on,’ she says (1m58s); and ‘I was having a much better time as a girl in that parallel life’: why author Lucy Sante transitioned (29m08s)
Customer Reviews
Thought provoking
….and added to my list of ‘must listen’ pods.
curious fiction
I actually didn’t catch the fact that this was supposed to be fiction when it aired. had i known I might've prepared my brain differently — still, I enjoyed a great deal. I’m not entirely certain why the riders are not the narrators. Maybe that’s just an American thing? That we read our own work? or maybe it’s a British thing that they don’t, and the rest of us in the world are suckers for our own voice. Hmm. I do know I would read the last piece quite differently than the narrator chose to… we've all got opinions…
Certainly, it was not The Guardian Science Weekly. Longer than I expected, funnier than I expected, and a show that dives into British life in such a way that it would be helpful as an American to know more about British life to fully appreciate like a proper listener.
I approve I approve. heh. not that my opinion matters but I do approve. Give it a try. I think you’ll like it too.
I love it 🥰
Thank you guys for doing this, my favorite part is the people you have picked to read about the subject, thank you, thank you 😊