TALKING POLITICS

Finale

David, Helen and Catherine get together for our final episode, to reflect on...

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• 3 months

Helen Thompson/Disorder

For our penultimate episode, David talks to Helen about her new book Disorder: Hard Times in the...

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• 3 months

The Meaning of Macron

David talks to Shahin Vallee and Chris Bickerton about the upcoming French presidential...

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• 3 months

The Meaning of Boris Johnson

David, Helen and Chris Brooke have one more go at making sense of the tangled web that is...

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• 3 months

Putin’s Next Move

David and Helen talk to Shashank Joshi, Defence Editor of the Economist, about what Vladimir...

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• 4 months

The Next Big Thing

David talks to John Naughton about what’s coming next in the tech revolution and where...

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• 4 months

American Civil War?

One year on from Joe Biden’s inauguration David and Helen talk with Gary Gerstle about...

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• 4 months

Two Topics for 2022

To kick off the new year David and Helen are joined by historian Robert Saunders to talk about...

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• 4 months

Boris: The Ghost of Christmas Present

David and Helen talk through what’s going on with the prime minister, the pandemic and the...

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• 5 months

1848 and All That

David and Helen talk to historian Chris Clark about the 1848 revolutions and what they teach us...

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• 5 months

1848 and All That

Talking Points: The revolutions of 1848 started with a small civil war in Switzerland in 1847....

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• 5 months

325 | 1848 and All That

David and Helen talk to historian Chris Clark about the 1848 revolutions and what they teach us...

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• 5 months

Supply Chains, Inflation & the Metaverse

In a special episode recorded live at the Bristol Festival of Economics, David and Helen...

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• 6 months

Where is China Heading?

Helen and David talk to Cindy Yu, host of the Chinese Whispers podcast, about the trajectory of...

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• 6 months

Climate Ambition vs Energy Reality

David and Helen talk to Jason Bordoff, Dean of the Columbia Climate School and former...

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• 6 months

Hilary Mantel

In a special episode recorded in front of a live audience, Helen and David talk to Hilary Mantel...

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• 7 months

Free with Lea Ypi

David talks with Lea Ypi about her astonishing new memoir Free: Coming of Age at the End of...

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• 7 months

German Lessons

David and Helen are joined by Politico’s chief Europe correspondent Matthew Karnitschnig to...

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• 7 months

Shutdown/Confronting Leviathan

We’re back from our summer break with David, Helen and Adam Tooze exploring what the...

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• 8 months

Q & A with Helen and David: Trump and Everything Else

Our final session of answering your questions, starting with Trump and moving on to where we get...

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• 10 months