TALKING POLITICS

By David Runciman and Catherine Carr

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Nose
 Jun 9, 2021
Great thoughtful politics discussions from two accomplished academics covering a wide range of topics.

Michael McGuire
 Nov 26, 2020
Loved David's a History of Ideas podcast. This though is like listening to smart kids give a book report on a book they have not read. Light on details. Waiting for Helen to start spout QANON conspiracies next.


 Jun 6, 2020

Kris
 Apr 27, 2020
Phenomenal in-depth analysis of political thinking both in a historical and contemporary context. If you like your politics you will love this podcast.

kate
 Jan 9, 2020
excellent podcast

Description

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.


Talking Politics is brought to you in partnership with the London Review of Books, Europe's leading magazine of books and ideas.


Episode Date
New Podcast: These Times
May 11, 2023
New Podcast: Where Are You Going?
Apr 24, 2023
New Podcast: Past Present Future
Apr 21, 2023
Finale
Mar 03, 2022
Helen Thompson/Disorder
Feb 24, 2022
The Meaning of Macron
Feb 17, 2022
The Meaning of Boris Johnson
Feb 10, 2022
Putin’s Next Move
Feb 03, 2022
The Next Big Thing
Jan 27, 2022
American Civil War?
Jan 20, 2022
Two Topics for 2022
Jan 06, 2022
Boris: The Ghost of Christmas Present
Dec 23, 2021
1848 and All That
Dec 16, 2021
Supply Chains, Inflation & the Metaverse
Dec 02, 2021
Where is China Heading?
Nov 18, 2021
Climate Ambition vs Energy Reality
Nov 04, 2021
Hilary Mantel
Oct 28, 2021
Free with Lea Ypi
Oct 21, 2021
German Lessons
Oct 07, 2021
Shutdown/Confronting Leviathan
Sep 23, 2021
Q & A with Helen and David: Trump and Everything Else
Jul 08, 2021
Q & A With Helen and David: UK Politics and the Union
Jul 01, 2021
Q & A with Helen and David: Geopolitics
Jun 24, 2021
Ed Miliband's Big Ideas
Jun 17, 2021
Covid-Union-Labour-Brexit-Climate
Jun 10, 2021
Why Constitutions Matter
Jun 03, 2021
England, Their England
May 27, 2021
Niall Ferguson on Catastrophe
May 20, 2021
Election Fallout
May 13, 2021
Michael Lewis on the Pandemic
May 06, 2021
After Merkel, What?
Apr 29, 2021
Union at the Crossroads
Apr 22, 2021
Wales, England and the Future of the UK
Apr 15, 2021
Adam Curtis
Apr 08, 2021
How's Biden Doing
Apr 01, 2021
Technopopulism
Mar 25, 2021
The Tragic Choices of Climate Change
Mar 18, 2021
Sunakonomics
Mar 11, 2021
Northern Ireland: Past, Present, Future
Mar 04, 2021
What Does Jeremy Think?
Feb 25, 2021
Is Boris Back?
Feb 18, 2021
Rating the Government on Covid
Feb 11, 2021
The Coup in Burma
Feb 09, 2021
What is the Union?
Feb 04, 2021
History of Ideas S2 E1 : Rousseau on Inequality
Feb 02, 2021
Germany, Italy, Coalitions and Vaccines
Jan 28, 2021
Biden Begins
Jan 20, 2021
The Long-term Legacy of Brexit
Jan 14, 2021
Jill Lepore on the Insurrection
Jan 11, 2021
New Year, New World?
Jan 07, 2021
How to Fix British Democracy?
Jan 03, 2021
Did Covid Kill the Climate?
Dec 31, 2020
Looking Back, Looking Forward
Dec 24, 2020
Where is the Opposition?
Dec 17, 2020
What's Next for France and Italy?
Dec 10, 2020
From Brexit to Scottish Independence
Dec 03, 2020
Young People vs Joe Biden
Nov 26, 2020
James O'Brien
Nov 22, 2020
Post-Covid Economics
Nov 19, 2020
War: What Is it Good For?
Nov 11, 2020
President Biden
Nov 09, 2020
What Just Happened?
Nov 04, 2020
Are Young People Losing Faith in Democracy?
Nov 02, 2020
China, Climate, Covid: The New Energy Map
Nov 01, 2020
What Trump Means to Us
Oct 29, 2020
Democracy for Sale
Oct 22, 2020
Trump Stress Test
Oct 15, 2020
Can Boris Survive Brexit?
Oct 08, 2020
One-Term Presidents
Oct 01, 2020
Michael Sandel on the Case Against Meritocracy
Sep 24, 2020
Robert Harris and V2
Sep 20, 2020
Jill Lepore on the Destructive Power of Tech
Sep 17, 2020
The Incompetence of Boris Johnson
Sep 10, 2020
The Politics of Loneliness
Sep 03, 2020
Thomas Piketty: Three Years On
Aug 27, 2020
Has Covid Rescued Europe?
Aug 20, 2020
Judith Butler: Then and Now
Aug 13, 2020
Brexit, Trump and Aldershot FC
Aug 06, 2020
Whose Work is it Anyway?
Jul 30, 2020
Revisiting Yuval Harari
Jul 23, 2020
Twilight of Democracy
Jul 16, 2020
Helen's History of Ideas
Jul 09, 2020
James Meek on Healthcare: from WHO to NHS
Jul 05, 2020
Brexit in the Age of Covid
Jul 02, 2020
Burma's Hidden History
Jun 28, 2020
Britain Wrestles with its Past
Jun 25, 2020
American Fascism: Then and Now
Jun 18, 2020
Police State USA
Jun 11, 2020
What Just Happened at the New York Times?
Jun 08, 2020
Matt Forde
Jun 07, 2020
Facts vs Opinions
Jun 04, 2020
Dan Snow on Covid History (and Cummings)
May 28, 2020
Bread, Cement, Cactus
May 24, 2020
Europe Blows Up
May 21, 2020
Labour and Brexit: Beyond the Crisis
May 14, 2020
Ebola, COVID and the WHO
May 07, 2020
David Miliband on the Crisis
Apr 30, 2020
History of Ideas: Wollstonecraft on Sexual Politics
Apr 28, 2020
History of Ideas: Hobbes on the State
Apr 27, 2020
What's Happening in Italy Now?
Apr 26, 2020
Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS
Apr 23, 2020
Lockdownonomics
Apr 23, 2020
Adam Tooze/Shockwave
Apr 20, 2020
Nate Silver
Apr 18, 2020
British Politics: The Big Reset?
Apr 16, 2020
In Praise of Hilary Mantel
Apr 12, 2020
Can America Cope?
Apr 09, 2020
Michael Lewis Updated
Apr 05, 2020
States of Emergency
Apr 02, 2020
Tara Westover/Educated
Mar 29, 2020
From Cholera to Coronavirus
Mar 28, 2020
Co-operation or Conflict?
Mar 26, 2020
The View from Italy
Mar 22, 2020
Adam Tooze Part 2
Mar 19, 2020
Adam Tooze on the Crisis
Mar 19, 2020
Doomsday Clock
Mar 15, 2020
Superforecasting
Mar 12, 2020
Super Tuesday Special: Biden's Back!
Mar 04, 2020
Blair's Labour and Johnson's Brexit
Feb 27, 2020
Michael Ignatieff on the Future of Democracy
Feb 23, 2020
Macron vs Everyone
Feb 20, 2020
Sinn Fein and Sardines
Feb 13, 2020
Oh Iowa!
Feb 06, 2020
Are We Losing Faith in Democracy?
Jan 30, 2020
Trump vs Iran: Is it for Real?
Jan 23, 2020
Predictions for 2030 with Azeem Azhar
Jan 19, 2020
What's the Future for Labour?
Jan 16, 2020
The Great Abortion Switcheroo
Jan 09, 2020
Deporting Mexicans
Jan 05, 2020
The 15th and the 19th
Jan 02, 2020
Monopoly and Muckraking
Dec 29, 2019
Pornography and the Post Office
Dec 26, 2019
Impeaching the President
Dec 22, 2019
American Histories Trailer
Dec 20, 2019
Michael Lewis on Donald Trump
Dec 18, 2019
Johnson Gets His Mandate
Dec 14, 2019
Some Brexit Scenarios
Dec 11, 2019
What if Remain Had Won...?
Dec 05, 2019
Tech Election - Part 2
Nov 28, 2019
Tech Election - Part 1
Nov 24, 2019
Party like it's 1974
Nov 21, 2019
One Election or Many?
Nov 14, 2019
Esther Duflo
Nov 07, 2019
Rory Stewart
Oct 30, 2019
Not Over Yet
Oct 23, 2019
Inside the Bubble with Ayesha Hazarika: Live!
Oct 17, 2019
Impeach This!
Oct 10, 2019
December Elections: Live Special!
Oct 07, 2019
Cameron's Referendum
Oct 03, 2019
Ian McEwan
Sep 29, 2019
Boiling Point
Sep 26, 2019
Supreme Court II & Italy!
Sep 25, 2019
Re-Engineering Humanity
Sep 22, 2019
Supreme Court
Sep 19, 2019
He's Still There (Just)
Sep 12, 2019
Adam Tooze on the Global Slowdown
Sep 08, 2019
Is It Legal?
Sep 04, 2019
Talking Politics Guide to ... Marriage
Sep 01, 2019
538 Cross Over Special : Is Britain In The Middle Of A Constitutional Crisis?
Aug 30, 2019
Where Power Stops
Aug 29, 2019
Talking Politics Guide to ... European Union before the EU
Aug 25, 2019
Talking Politics Guide to ... The UK Constitution
Aug 22, 2019
Jill Lepore on the American Nation
Aug 18, 2019
Talking Politics Guide to ... Being a Civil Servant
Aug 15, 2019
Talking Politics Guide to ... The Euro
Aug 11, 2019
Talking Politics Guide to ... Summer Reading
Aug 08, 2019
Talking Politics Guide to ... The Chinese Communist Party
Aug 04, 2019
Talking Politics Guide to ... The Gilded Age
Aug 01, 2019
Autumn of Chaos
Jul 24, 2019
Waiting for Boris
Jul 18, 2019
Hong Kong
Jul 11, 2019
Libra
Jul 04, 2019
Outlasting Trump
Jun 27, 2019
The Party Splits! (In 1846!)
Jun 20, 2019
Who is Boris Johnson?
Jun 13, 2019
Constitutional Breakdown
Jun 06, 2019
Jared Diamond
May 30, 2019
Split Down the Middle
May 28, 2019
The Next PM
May 23, 2019
Death of the Republic
May 16, 2019
Adam Tooze on US vs China
May 12, 2019
President Bernie?
May 09, 2019
A Mockery of Democracy?
May 02, 2019
David King on Climate Repair
Apr 30, 2019
Paul Mason on the Human Future
Apr 25, 2019
The Copernican Principle
Apr 18, 2019
Brexit Lessons
Apr 10, 2019
Trump After Mueller
Apr 07, 2019
May Rolls the Dice
Apr 04, 2019
Moment of Truth?
Mar 28, 2019
Uninhabitable Earth
Mar 24, 2019
Italy vs France vs Brexit
Mar 21, 2019
Can This Go On?
Mar 18, 2019
Impasse
Mar 13, 2019
The Party Splits
Mar 07, 2019
Endgame?
Feb 28, 2019
Best Political Novels
Feb 28, 2019
Green New Deal?
Feb 21, 2019
The Nightmare of Surveillance Capitalism
Feb 14, 2019
The Wall
Feb 07, 2019
Back to Brussels
Feb 03, 2019
The Problem with Political Leaders
Jan 31, 2019
Trump and the Shutdown
Jan 24, 2019
Adam Tooze on Europe
Jan 20, 2019
What Now?
Jan 16, 2019
Talking Politics Guide to ... Existential Risk
Jan 10, 2019
Talking Politics Guide to ... Bretton Woods
Jan 06, 2019
Talking Politics Guide to ... Deliberative Democracy
Jan 03, 2019
Talking Politics Guide to ... Human Rights in the Digital Age
Dec 30, 2018
Talking Politics Guide to ... Facebook
Dec 27, 2018
Talking Politics Guide to ... Economic Well-being
Dec 23, 2018
Talking Politics Guide to ... the US Constitution
Dec 20, 2018
The Fate of Theresa May
Dec 13, 2018
Democracy For Young People
Dec 06, 2018
Martha Nussbaum
Nov 29, 2018
Brexit Time
Nov 22, 2018
Italy vs. Europe
Nov 15, 2018
What's happening in Brazil?
Nov 11, 2018
Midterms special!
Nov 07, 2018
America First?
Nov 01, 2018
How Bad Could it Get?
Oct 25, 2018
Gandhi's Politics
Oct 21, 2018
Francis Fukuyama
Oct 18, 2018
Democracy Hacked
Oct 11, 2018
Brexit Choices
Oct 04, 2018
Moneyland
Sep 27, 2018
Dan Snow
Sep 20, 2018
Taming Trump
Sep 13, 2018
Labour's Fault Lines
Sep 06, 2018
Crashed
Aug 30, 2018
Talking Politics Guide to ... Turkey
Aug 23, 2018
Talking Politics Guide to ... Nuclear Weapons
Aug 19, 2018
Talking Politics Guide to ... Machine Learning
Aug 16, 2018
Talking Politics Guide to ... Distributive Justice
Aug 12, 2018
The Politics of Food
Aug 09, 2018
Talking Politics Guide to ... Technocracy
Aug 05, 2018
Talking Politics Guide to ... American Foreign Policy
Aug 02, 2018
Talking Politics Guide to ... Summer Reading
Jul 29, 2018
Talking Politics Guide to . . . the 1970s
Jul 26, 2018
Summer Plans
Jul 22, 2018
Trump Blows Through
Jul 19, 2018
The Next Referendum?
Jul 12, 2018
World Cup Politics
Jul 05, 2018
Populism, Migration and Merkel
Jun 27, 2018
Andrew O'Hagan on Grenfell
Jun 21, 2018
Trump Abroad
Jun 14, 2018
Oh Italy!
Jun 07, 2018
Socialism in this Country?
May 31, 2018
Iran, Israel, Korea, the World
May 24, 2018
The Politics of Mental Health
May 17, 2018
Strike
May 10, 2018
How Democracy Ends - The Book
May 06, 2018
What's wrong with GDP?
May 03, 2018
James Williams
Apr 26, 2018
Tim Shipman
Apr 19, 2018
The End of the Party?
Apr 12, 2018
James Meek on the NHS
Apr 05, 2018
Facebook vs the World
Mar 29, 2018
Bridget Kendall on Russia
Mar 22, 2018
George Monbiot
Mar 15, 2018
​ Italy, Germany and the Future of Europe
Mar 07, 2018
Ed Miliband & Geoff Lloyd
Mar 01, 2018
Who is Jeremy Corbyn?
Feb 22, 2018
Educated
Feb 15, 2018
The Fundamentals
Feb 08, 2018
A Second Referendum?
Feb 01, 2018
Nadia Urbinati on Italy
Jan 25, 2018
Peter Carey
Jan 18, 2018
Reformation Then and Now
Jan 11, 2018
Books and Things
Jan 04, 2018
Nobody Knows Anything
Dec 28, 2017
That was 2017
Dec 21, 2017
Deal or No Deal
Dec 14, 2017
How Democracy Ends
Dec 07, 2017
Jess Phillips
Nov 30, 2017
David Miliband
Nov 23, 2017
Jan-Werner Müller on Populism
Nov 16, 2017
Trump and Tax Havens
Nov 09, 2017
Brexit and the Universities
Nov 02, 2017
John Gray
Oct 26, 2017
What If?
Oct 19, 2017
Catalonia
Oct 12, 2017
Where is the Centre?
Oct 05, 2017
Live Special
Sep 28, 2017
The Mystery of Germany
Sep 21, 2017
Pax Technica
Sep 14, 2017
Trump and Religion
Sep 07, 2017
The Year Ahead
Aug 31, 2017
Summer Reading 3
Aug 24, 2017
Macron and History
Aug 21, 2017
America, Russia, Venezuela, France
Aug 17, 2017
What a Year!
Aug 10, 2017
The Nine Dots Winner
Aug 03, 2017
SUMMER READING 2
Jul 27, 2017
Ha-Joon Chang
Jul 20, 2017
SUMMER READING 1
Jul 13, 2017
Zafar Ansari
Jul 06, 2017
Oil!
Jun 29, 2017
Crisis, What Crisis?
Jun 22, 2017
Turning Left
Jun 15, 2017
Another Shock!
Jun 09, 2017
Decision Day
Jun 07, 2017
The Corbyn Surge?
Jun 01, 2017
Tim O'Reilly and the WTF Economy
May 27, 2017
The Who, The What, The How
May 25, 2017
Trump vs. Comey
May 18, 2017
The Meaning of UKIP
May 11, 2017
Michael Gove
May 07, 2017
Thomas Piketty
May 06, 2017
The Tory Machine
May 04, 2017
Scotland and the Union
Apr 27, 2017
Pankaj Mishra
Apr 22, 2017
Elections!
Apr 20, 2017
John Lanchester
Apr 13, 2017
Power in the Digital Age
Apr 06, 2017
Richard Dearlove
Mar 30, 2017
Chris Clark/Germany and India
Mar 23, 2017
Patience Wheatcroft/Brexit
Mar 16, 2017
Election Season
Mar 09, 2017
Dani Rodrik
Mar 02, 2017
Mary Beard
Feb 22, 2017
Rory Bremner/France
Feb 16, 2017
Is Democracy Failing?
Feb 09, 2017
Mrs May Goes to Washington
Feb 02, 2017
Jill Lepore
Jan 26, 2017
Inaugurals
Jan 19, 2017
What Next for Labour?
Jan 12, 2017
Cyberpolitics
Jan 05, 2017
What we're reading
Dec 29, 2016
Talking Politics/New Statesman PART 1
Dec 22, 2016
Trump's Cabinet
Dec 15, 2016
Italy: What's Next?
Dec 08, 2016
Gary Younge
Dec 01, 2016
Brexit after Trump
Nov 23, 2016
Judith Butler
Nov 17, 2016
President Trump
Nov 10, 2016
Ahir Shah
Nov 05, 2016
Six Days To Go
Nov 03, 2016
Sophie Hannah
Oct 27, 2016
Live Special - Trump and History
Oct 19, 2016
Conspiracy Theories and the Second Debate
Oct 13, 2016
Dilemmas of Brexit
Oct 06, 2016
The First Debate
Sep 29, 2016
Yuval Noah Harari
Sep 22, 2016
TALKING POLITICS
Sep 15, 2016
The Chilcot Report with Glen Rangwala
Jul 08, 2016
S02-EP15 It's Brexit! One week on.
Jul 01, 2016
The UK decides: it's Brexit!
Jun 25, 2016
S02-EP14 Indiana decides: it's Trump!
May 05, 2016
S02-EP 13 Paul Cartledge on democracy ancient and modern: what can we learn from Greeks?
Apr 14, 2016
S02-EP12 Anand Menon on how to sort fact from fiction in the EU referendum debate.
Apr 07, 2016
S02 - EP11 - John Judis on 'the emerging Democratic majority' and the perils of predicting where America might be heading.
Mar 31, 2016
S02-EP10 Jim Naughtie with his tales from the primary campaign trail
Mar 24, 2016
S02-EP09 Leading US polling analyst Sean Trende on what Trumpism really means for American democracy.
Mar 17, 2016
S02-EP08 Jeremy Cliffe of the Economist on Brexit, the future of the UK and the fate of David Cameron.
Mar 10, 2016
S02-EP07 Xenia Wickett on America's place in the world and what the world makes of this extraordinary election.
Mar 03, 2016
S02-EP06 David McWilliams on Ireland, talking bail-outs and the blame game.
Feb 25, 2016
S02-EP05 - Gary Gerstle on police power and paranoia in US politics, plus we talk Uganda.
Feb 18, 2016
S02-EP04 - Athene Donald on women in science, scientists in politics and why Britain needs to stay in Europe.
Feb 11, 2016
S02-EP03 - Bill Janeway on Silicon Valley, inequality and presidential politics in the age of Google.
Feb 04, 2016
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.
Jan 28, 2016
S02-EP01 - Jackie Ashley discusses the state of the Labour party and whether we are seeing a new kind of politics.
Jan 21, 2016
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
Oct 27, 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
May 27, 2015
S01-EP15 - Richard Danbury on television debates, old vs new media & the BBC
May 20, 2015
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
May 13, 2015
S01-EP13 - David Howarth on winning an election, Polling Day & the future of democracy
May 06, 2015
S01-EP12 - Richard N. Haass on foreign policy, the US perspective & Northern Ireland
Apr 29, 2015
S01-EP11 - Sherry Coutu on education, stimulating business & coalitions
Apr 22, 2015
S01-EP10 - Barbara Sahakian on psychology, politics & well-being
Apr 15, 2015
S01-EP09 - Simon Szreter on conspiracy theories, trust in politics & solutions
Apr 08, 2015
S01-EP08 - Robert Tombs on Britishness, Britain's place in Europe & the NHS
Apr 01, 2015
S01-EP07 - SPECIAL: Michael Howard & Stephan Shakespeare on Margaret Thatcher, the true power of polls, and the impact of UKIP in 2015
Mar 25, 2015
S01-EP06 - Rae Langton on Charlie Hebdo, free speech vs hate speech & blasphemy
Mar 18, 2015
S01-EP05 - Clare Jackson on the United Kingdom, Scotland & the politics of memory
Mar 11, 2015
S01-EP04 - John Naughton on Facebook in Politics, Edward Snowden, & Surveillance
Mar 04, 2015
S01-EP03 - Martin Jacques on the global perspective, Britain’s decline, & China’s rise
Feb 25, 2015
S01-EP02 - Martin Rees on surviving this century, scientists in politics, and 2015
Feb 18, 2015
S01-EP01 - Maurice Glasman on democracy, creative destruction and Wolf Hall
Feb 13, 2015