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Corbyn! Trump! Brexit! Politics has never been more unpredictable, more alarming or more interesting. TALKING POLITICS is the podcast that tries to make sense of it all. Each Thursday, in Ca...
UnHerd political editor Tom McTague and Cambridge professor Helen Thompson team up to investigate the history of today’s politics — and what...
Talking Politics producer Catherine Carr returns to her role as mic-wielder in 'Where Are You Going?' a unique storytelling podcast, deliver...
Past Present Future is a new weekly podcast with David Runciman, host of Talking Politics, exploring the history of ideas from politics to p...
David, Helen and Catherine get together for our final episode, to reflect on podcasting through six extraordinary years of politics, and wha...
For our penultimate episode, David talks to Helen about her new book Disorder: Hard Times in the Twenty-First Century. It’s a conversation a...
David talks to Shahin Vallee and Chris Bickerton about the upcoming French presidential elections. Can anything or anyone stop Macron? Why h...
David, Helen and Chris Brooke have one more go at making sense of the tangled web that is British politics. Can Johnson really survive, and...
David and Helen talk to Shashank Joshi, Defence Editor of the Economist, about what Vladimir Putin hopes to get out of the Ukraine crisis an...
David talks to John Naughton about what’s coming next in the tech revolution and where it’s taking us. From quantum computing to cryptocurre...
One year on from Joe Biden’s inauguration David and Helen talk with Gary Gerstle about what’s gone wrong. What is the strategy behind this p...
To kick off the new year David and Helen are joined by historian Robert Saunders to talk about two possible trends for the next twelve month...
David and Helen talk through what’s going on with the prime minister, the pandemic and the state of British politics. Is Johnson still in to...
David and Helen talk to historian Chris Clark about the 1848 revolutions and what they teach us about political change. What explains the co...
In a special episode recorded live at the Bristol Festival of Economics, David and Helen talk to Ed Conway, Economics Editor at Sky News, ab...
Helen and David talk to Cindy Yu, host of the Chinese Whispers podcast, about the trajectory of Chinese politics. What is Beijing’s politica...
David and Helen talk to Jason Bordoff, Dean of the Columbia Climate School and former Special Assistant to Barack Obama, about climate, COP2...
In a special episode recorded in front of a live audience, Helen and David talk to Hilary Mantel about power, monarchy and political intrigu...
David talks with Lea Ypi about her astonishing new memoir Free: Coming of Age at the End of History, which tells the story of her childhood...
David and Helen are joined by Politico’s chief Europe correspondent Matthew Karnitschnig to explore the consequences of the German elections...
We’re back from our summer break with David, Helen and Adam Tooze exploring what the pandemic has revealed about politics, economics and the...
Our final session of answering your questions, starting with Trump and moving on to where we get our ideas from and what we've learned from...
The second part of our attempt to answer your questions, this week covering British politics. Helen and David tackle whether Labour can win,...
In the first of a short series of episodes, Helen and David do their best to answer your questions about anything and everything. Here, it's...
David talks to Ed Miliband about the thinking behind his new book Go Big . What are the ideas that have the power to change British politics...
This week David and Helen take stock of the state of British politics, looking at how the big themes of the last year fit together. They try...
David talks to historian Linda Colley about her new global history of written constitutions: the paper documents that made and remade the mo...
We talk to the historians Robert Tombs and Robert Saunders about the history of England and the future of the Union. Is the size and complex...
We talk to the historian Niall Ferguson about the politics of catastrophe, from pandemics and famines to world wars and climate change. Have...
David and Helen are joined by the historian Colin Kidd to try to make sense of last week's elections in England, Scotland and Wales. What do...
We talk to Michael Lewis about his new book The Premonition, which tells the story of the people who saw the pandemic coming and asks why th...
We talk to Hans Kundnani about the prospects for German politics in the run-up to September's federal elections, now that the cast list of p...
David and Helen talk to Mike Kenny about what devolution has done to the politics of the UK as seen from Westminster and Whitehall. How have...
As part of our series about the future of the Union, David and Helen talk to Dan Wincott of Cardiff Law School about the history of Welsh de...
This week David talks to the celebrated film-maker Adam Curtis about his new series Can't Get You Out of My Head, which tells the history of...
70 days into the first 100 days we take the temperature of the Biden presidency and ask how he's doing, and how he's doing so much. What mad...
David and Helen talk to Chris Bickerton about how technocracy and populism have come together to create a new form of democratic politics. F...
David talks to Helen Thompson and Adam Tooze about the choices facing the world in addressing climate change. Can we transition away from fo...
This week we discuss the government's post-Budget economic strategy and the new dividing lines in British politics. Have the Tories stolen L...
In the latest in our series on the fate of the Union, we talk to historians Richard Bourke and Niamh Gallagher about the history of Northern...
This week we talk to Suzanne Heywood about her memoir of her late husband, Cabinet Secretary Jeremy Heywood - the man who helped to run Brit...
David and Helen talk to Nick Timothy, former chief of staff in Downing Street under Theresa May, about the future for Boris Johnson's govern...
David talks to Bronwen Maddox, Director of the Institute for Government, about how well the Johnson government has performed over the past y...
In this extra episode David catches up with Thant Myint-U to discuss the latest developments in Burma (Myanmar), following the overthrow of...
For this first in our series looking at the future of the UK, we talk to the historian Colin Kidd about the origins of the Union and the ide...
This is episode 1 of the new HISTORY OF IDEAS series from Talking Politics. To hear the remaining 11 episodes, please subscribe to History o...
We look at two countries where things may be changing: Germany, as it starts to imagine life beyond Merkel, and Italy, after the resignation...
David, Helen and Gary reflect on what lies ahead for American politics and for the Biden administration. Does Trump pose more of a threat fr...
David and Helen are joined by Diane Coyle and Anand Menon to have another go at pinning down the long term consequences of Brexit. Now we ha...
David talks to historian Jill Lepore about what took place at the Capitol on January 6th. What should we call it? What can we compare it to?...
David and Helen look at what's changed - and what hasn't - since we last spoke, from Brexit to Biden to Covid. Has the Brexit deal really gi...