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Lockdown TV with Freddie Sayers

Sebastian Giraud

Freddie Sayers from online magazine UnHerd seeks out top scientists, writers, politicians and thinkers for in-depth interviews to try and help us work out what’s really going on. What starte...

Episodes

20 of 396 episodes

Wolfgang Munchau: The end of the Euro

Freddie Sayers talks to UnHerd’s Wolfgang Munchau about the escalating political turmoil and mounting sovereign debt in France, unpacking ho...

33:42Oct 26, 2026

Charles Foster: How to live on the edge

UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers talks to author, Oxford academic, and Royal Geographical Society fellow Charles Foster about his book 'The Edges of...

41:46Oct 24, 2026

France in crisis: What happens next?

This week, riots and looting have spread across French cities after protests over education spiralled out of police control. To some, this i...

44:43Oct 19, 2026

MIT biologist: Is the Russian plague pandemic 2.0?

UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers talks to MIT evolutionary engineer Kevin Esvelt about a suspicious biological researcher's death in Irkutsk, Russia,...

30:52Oct 9, 2026

Dr. Iain McGilchrist: AI versus the human soul

Dr Iain McGilchrist has dedicated decades of neuroscience research to unravelling the inner workings of the human mind. But now, a new form...

1:12:36Oct 1, 2026

Prof. Nick Bostrom: The truth about the AI panic

UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers talks to Oxford philosopher Professor Nick Bostrom about the escalating concerns over artificial intelligence, weigh...

42:14Sep 24, 2026

Wolfgang Munchau: The AfD momentum is unstoppable

Freddie Sayers talks to UnHerd columnist and co-host of The Econoclasts Wolfgang Munchau about the political earthquake triggered by the har...

34:59Sep 7, 2026

Kathleen Stock: The scandal of Jason Arday

Jason Arday, the wunderkind sociologist and youngest ever black professor at Cambridge, has an almost unbelievable backstory. Overcoming ill...

42:04Aug 4, 2026

Ross Barkan: Zohran Mamdani is just the beginning

Freddie Sayers is joined by UnHerd columnist and author Ross Barkan - a former campaign colleague of Zohran Mamdani - to discuss the New Yor...

40:54Jul 21, 2026

Jonathan Haidt: Why Big Tech wants your children

UnHerd's Freddie Sayers talks with social psychologist and author Jonathan Haidt about the global momentum toward banning under-16s from soc...

41:59Jul 7, 2026

Norman Finkelstein: How Israel lost the Right

UnHerd's Freddie Sayers talks to American political scientist, author, and prominent scholar of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Norman Fin...

29:06Jul 3, 2026

Jake Sullivan: Trump has handed Iran victory

In this exclusive UnHerd interview Freddie Sayers meets Jake Sullivan, former National Security Advisor under Joe Biden and chief negotiator...

38:45Jun 19, 2026

Will Pope Leo divide the Right?

Freddie Sayers talks to The Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles and UnHerd US editor Sohrab Ahmari to explore how Pope Leo XIV’s landmark AI encycl...

48:20Jun 1, 2026

John Burn-Murdoch: What's causing the fertility crisis?

UnHerd's Freddie Sayers talks to John Burn-Murdoch, the chief data reporter for the Financial Times, as well as Hernan Moscoso-Boedo and Nat...

29:59May 21, 2026

Adrian Wooldridge: Why Labour should keep Starmer

UnHerd's Freddie Sayers talks with journalist, author, and historian Adrian Wooldridge about the systemic leadership crisis facing the UK, e...

53:22May 12, 2026

The stage is set for a new WWI

UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers talks with Odd Arne Westad – Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University – about his new book The Com...

40:16Apr 30, 2026

Orbán's defeat is not a liberal victory

Freddie Sayers talks with UnHerd’s Aris Roussinos reporting from Hungary about the downfall of Viktor Orban’s long-standing administration a...

27:20Apr 13, 2026

Iain McGilchrist: How to escape left-brain thinking

UnHerd's Freddie Sayers talks with neuroscientist and philosopher Dr. Iain McGilchrist about the psychological and cultural crisis resulting...

1:06:57Apr 12, 2026

John Bolton: Trump should finish the job

UnHerd's Freddie Sayers discusses the ongoing military campaign in Iran with former National Security Advisor John Bolton who delivers a blu...

34:56Apr 10, 2026

US General: Hegseth will be tried at The Hague

UnHerd's Freddie Sayers talks with retired Major General Randy Manner, a highly decorated veteran with over 35 years of service, who deliver...

28:58Apr 1, 2026