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.
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New Podcast: These Times
New Podcast: Where Are You Going?
New Podcast: Past Present Future
Finale
Helen Thompson/Disorder
The Meaning of Macron
The Meaning of Boris Johnson
Putin’s Next Move
The Next Big Thing
American Civil War?
Two Topics for 2022
Boris: The Ghost of Christmas Present
1848 and All That
Supply Chains, Inflation & the Metaverse
Where is China Heading?
Climate Ambition vs Energy Reality
Hilary Mantel
Free with Lea Ypi
German Lessons
Shutdown/Confronting Leviathan
Q & A with Helen and David: Trump and Everything Else
Q & A With Helen and David: UK Politics and the Union
Q & A with Helen and David: Geopolitics
Ed Miliband's Big Ideas
Covid-Union-Labour-Brexit-Climate
Why Constitutions Matter
England, Their England
Niall Ferguson on Catastrophe
Election Fallout
Michael Lewis on the Pandemic
After Merkel, What?
Union at the Crossroads
Wales, England and the Future of the UK
Adam Curtis
How's Biden Doing
Technopopulism
The Tragic Choices of Climate Change
Sunakonomics
Northern Ireland: Past, Present, Future
What Does Jeremy Think?
Is Boris Back?
Rating the Government on Covid
The Coup in Burma
What is the Union?
History of Ideas S2 E1 : Rousseau on Inequality
Germany, Italy, Coalitions and Vaccines
Biden Begins
The Long-term Legacy of Brexit
Jill Lepore on the Insurrection
New Year, New World?
How to Fix British Democracy?
Did Covid Kill the Climate?
Looking Back, Looking Forward
Where is the Opposition?
What's Next for France and Italy?
From Brexit to Scottish Independence
Young People vs Joe Biden
James O'Brien
Post-Covid Economics
War: What Is it Good For?
President Biden
What Just Happened?
Are Young People Losing Faith in Democracy?
China, Climate, Covid: The New Energy Map
What Trump Means to Us
Democracy for Sale
Trump Stress Test
Can Boris Survive Brexit?
One-Term Presidents
Michael Sandel on the Case Against Meritocracy
Robert Harris and V2
Jill Lepore on the Destructive Power of Tech
The Incompetence of Boris Johnson
The Politics of Loneliness
Thomas Piketty: Three Years On
Has Covid Rescued Europe?
Judith Butler: Then and Now
Brexit, Trump and Aldershot FC
Whose Work is it Anyway?
Revisiting Yuval Harari
Twilight of Democracy
Helen's History of Ideas
James Meek on Healthcare: from WHO to NHS
Brexit in the Age of Covid
Burma's Hidden History
Britain Wrestles with its Past
American Fascism: Then and Now
Police State USA
What Just Happened at the New York Times?
Matt Forde
Facts vs Opinions
Dan Snow on Covid History (and Cummings)
Bread, Cement, Cactus
Europe Blows Up
Labour and Brexit: Beyond the Crisis
Ebola, COVID and the WHO
David Miliband on the Crisis
History of Ideas: Wollstonecraft on Sexual Politics
History of Ideas: Hobbes on the State
What's Happening in Italy Now?
Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS
Lockdownonomics
Adam Tooze/Shockwave
Nate Silver
British Politics: The Big Reset?
In Praise of Hilary Mantel
Can America Cope?
Michael Lewis Updated
States of Emergency
Tara Westover/Educated
From Cholera to Coronavirus
Co-operation or Conflict?
The View from Italy
Adam Tooze Part 2
Adam Tooze on the Crisis
Doomsday Clock
Superforecasting
Super Tuesday Special: Biden's Back!
Blair's Labour and Johnson's Brexit
Michael Ignatieff on the Future of Democracy
Macron vs Everyone
Sinn Fein and Sardines
Oh Iowa!
Are We Losing Faith in Democracy?
Trump vs Iran: Is it for Real?
Predictions for 2030 with Azeem Azhar
What's the Future for Labour?
The Great Abortion Switcheroo
Deporting Mexicans
The 15th and the 19th
Monopoly and Muckraking
Pornography and the Post Office
Impeaching the President
American Histories Trailer
Michael Lewis on Donald Trump
Johnson Gets His Mandate
Some Brexit Scenarios
What if Remain Had Won...?
Tech Election - Part 2
Tech Election - Part 1
Party like it's 1974
One Election or Many?
Esther Duflo
Rory Stewart
Not Over Yet
Inside the Bubble with Ayesha Hazarika: Live!
Impeach This!
December Elections: Live Special!
Cameron's Referendum
Ian McEwan
Boiling Point
Supreme Court II & Italy!
Re-Engineering Humanity
Supreme Court
He's Still There (Just)
Adam Tooze on the Global Slowdown
Is It Legal?
Talking Politics Guide to ... Marriage
538 Cross Over Special : Is Britain In The Middle Of A Constitutional Crisis?
Where Power Stops
Talking Politics Guide to ... European Union before the EU
Talking Politics Guide to ... The UK Constitution
Jill Lepore on the American Nation
Talking Politics Guide to ... Being a Civil Servant
Talking Politics Guide to ... The Euro
Talking Politics Guide to ... Summer Reading
Talking Politics Guide to ... The Chinese Communist Party
Talking Politics Guide to ... The Gilded Age
Autumn of Chaos
Waiting for Boris
Hong Kong
Libra
Outlasting Trump
The Party Splits! (In 1846!)
Who is Boris Johnson?
Constitutional Breakdown
Jared Diamond
Split Down the Middle
The Next PM
Death of the Republic
Adam Tooze on US vs China
President Bernie?
A Mockery of Democracy?
David King on Climate Repair
Paul Mason on the Human Future
The Copernican Principle
Brexit Lessons
Trump After Mueller
May Rolls the Dice
Moment of Truth?
Uninhabitable Earth
Italy vs France vs Brexit
Can This Go On?
Impasse
The Party Splits
Endgame?
Best Political Novels
Green New Deal?
The Nightmare of Surveillance Capitalism
The Wall
Back to Brussels
The Problem with Political Leaders
Trump and the Shutdown
Adam Tooze on Europe
What Now?
Talking Politics Guide to ... Existential Risk
Talking Politics Guide to ... Bretton Woods
Talking Politics Guide to ... Deliberative Democracy
Talking Politics Guide to ... Human Rights in the Digital Age
Talking Politics Guide to ... Facebook
Talking Politics Guide to ... Economic Well-being
Talking Politics Guide to ... the US Constitution
The Fate of Theresa May
Democracy For Young People
Martha Nussbaum
Brexit Time
Italy vs. Europe
What's happening in Brazil?
Midterms special!
America First?
How Bad Could it Get?
Gandhi's Politics
Francis Fukuyama
Democracy Hacked
Brexit Choices
Moneyland
Dan Snow
Taming Trump
Labour's Fault Lines
Crashed
Talking Politics Guide to ... Turkey
Talking Politics Guide to ... Nuclear Weapons
Talking Politics Guide to ... Machine Learning
Talking Politics Guide to ... Distributive Justice
The Politics of Food
Talking Politics Guide to ... Technocracy
Talking Politics Guide to ... American Foreign Policy
Talking Politics Guide to ... Summer Reading
Talking Politics Guide to . . . the 1970s
Summer Plans
Trump Blows Through
The Next Referendum?
World Cup Politics
Populism, Migration and Merkel
Andrew O'Hagan on Grenfell
Trump Abroad
Oh Italy!
Socialism in this Country?
Iran, Israel, Korea, the World
The Politics of Mental Health
Strike
How Democracy Ends - The Book
What's wrong with GDP?
James Williams
Tim Shipman
The End of the Party?
James Meek on the NHS
Facebook vs the World
Bridget Kendall on Russia
George Monbiot
Italy, Germany and the Future of Europe
Ed Miliband & Geoff Lloyd
Who is Jeremy Corbyn?
Educated
The Fundamentals
A Second Referendum?
Nadia Urbinati on Italy
Peter Carey
Reformation Then and Now
Books and Things
Nobody Knows Anything
That was 2017
Deal or No Deal
How Democracy Ends
Jess Phillips
David Miliband
Jan-Werner Müller on Populism
Trump and Tax Havens
Brexit and the Universities
John Gray
What If?
Catalonia
Where is the Centre?
Live Special
The Mystery of Germany
Pax Technica
Trump and Religion
The Year Ahead
Summer Reading 3
Macron and History
America, Russia, Venezuela, France
What a Year!
The Nine Dots Winner
SUMMER READING 2
Ha-Joon Chang
SUMMER READING 1
Zafar Ansari
Oil!
Crisis, What Crisis?
Turning Left
Another Shock!
Decision Day
The Corbyn Surge?
Tim O'Reilly and the WTF Economy
The Who, The What, The How
Trump vs. Comey
The Meaning of UKIP
Michael Gove
Thomas Piketty
The Tory Machine
Scotland and the Union
Pankaj Mishra
Elections!
John Lanchester
Power in the Digital Age
Richard Dearlove
Chris Clark/Germany and India
Patience Wheatcroft/Brexit
Election Season
Dani Rodrik
Mary Beard
Rory Bremner/France
Is Democracy Failing?
Mrs May Goes to Washington
Jill Lepore
Inaugurals
What Next for Labour?
Cyberpolitics
What we're reading
Talking Politics/New Statesman PART 1
Trump's Cabinet
Italy: What's Next?
Gary Younge
Brexit after Trump
Judith Butler
President Trump
Ahir Shah
Six Days To Go
Sophie Hannah
Live Special - Trump and History
Conspiracy Theories and the Second Debate
Dilemmas of Brexit
The First Debate
Yuval Noah Harari
TALKING POLITICS
The Chilcot Report with Glen Rangwala
S02-EP15 It's Brexit! One week on.
The UK decides: it's Brexit!
S02-EP14 Indiana decides: it's Trump!
S02-EP 13 Paul Cartledge on democracy ancient and modern: what can we learn from Greeks?
S02-EP12 Anand Menon on how to sort fact from fiction in the EU referendum debate.
S02 - EP11 - John Judis on 'the emerging Democratic majority' and the perils of predicting where America might be heading.
S02-EP10 Jim Naughtie with his tales from the primary campaign trail
S02-EP09 Leading US polling analyst Sean Trende on what Trumpism really means for American democracy.
S02-EP08 Jeremy Cliffe of the Economist on Brexit, the future of the UK and the fate of David Cameron.
S02-EP07 Xenia Wickett on America's place in the world and what the world makes of this extraordinary election.
S02-EP06 David McWilliams on Ireland, talking bail-outs and the blame game.
S02-EP05 - Gary Gerstle on police power and paranoia in US politics, plus we talk Uganda.
S02-EP04 - Athene Donald on women in science, scientists in politics and why Britain needs to stay in Europe.
S02-EP03 - Bill Janeway on Silicon Valley, inequality and presidential politics in the age of Google.
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.
S02-EP01 - Jackie Ashley discusses the state of the Labour party and whether we are seeing a new kind of politics.
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
S01-EP16 - FINALE: Remembering a remarkable election PLUS Lord Grabiner on the Human Rights Act, the future of Labour & the lessons of Tony Blair
S01-EP15 - Richard Danbury on television debates, old vs new media & the BBC
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
S01-EP13 - David Howarth on winning an election, Polling Day & the future of democracy
S01-EP12 - Richard N. Haass on foreign policy, the US perspective & Northern Ireland
S01-EP11 - Sherry Coutu on education, stimulating business & coalitions
S01-EP10 - Barbara Sahakian on psychology, politics & well-being
S01-EP09 - Simon Szreter on conspiracy theories, trust in politics & solutions
S01-EP08 - Robert Tombs on Britishness, Britain's place in Europe & the NHS
S01-EP07 - SPECIAL: Michael Howard & Stephan Shakespeare on Margaret Thatcher, the true power of polls, and the impact of UKIP in 2015
S01-EP06 - Rae Langton on Charlie Hebdo, free speech vs hate speech & blasphemy
S01-EP05 - Clare Jackson on the United Kingdom, Scotland & the politics of memory
S01-EP04 - John Naughton on Facebook in Politics, Edward Snowden, & Surveillance
S01-EP03 - Martin Jacques on the global perspective, Britain’s decline, & China’s rise
S01-EP02 - Martin Rees on surviving this century, scientists in politics, and 2015