TALKING POLITICS
David Runciman and Catherine Carr
TALKING POLITICS
David Runciman and Catherine Carr
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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Thursday 03 March 2022 : David, Helen and Catherine get together for our final episode, to reflect on podcasting through six extraordinary years of politics, and...
Thursday 24 February 2022 : For our penultimate episode, David talks to Helen about her new book Disorder: Hard Times in the Twenty-First Century. It’s a conversation...
Thursday 17 February 2022 : David talks to Shahin Vallee and Chris Bickerton about the upcoming French presidential elections. Can anything or anyone stop...
Thursday 10 February 2022 : David, Helen and Chris Brooke have one more go at making sense of the tangled web that is British politics. Can Johnson really survive,...
Thursday 03 February 2022 : David and Helen talk to Shashank Joshi, Defence Editor of the Economist, about what Vladimir Putin hopes to get out of the Ukraine crisis...
Thursday 27 January 2022 : David talks to John Naughton about what’s coming next in the tech revolution and where it’s taking us. From quantum computing to...
Thursday 20 January 2022 : 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...
Thursday 06 January 2022 : 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...
Thursday 23 December 2021 : 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...
Thursday 16 December 2021 : David and Helen talk to historian Chris Clark about the 1848 revolutions and what they teach us about political change. What explains the...
Thursday 02 December 2021 : In a special episode recorded live at the Bristol Festival of Economics, David and Helen talk to Ed Conway, Economics Editor at Sky News,...
Thursday 18 November 2021 : Helen and David talk to Cindy Yu, host of the Chinese Whispers podcast, about the trajectory of Chinese politics. What is Beijing’s...
Thursday 04 November 2021 : David and Helen talk to Jason Bordoff, Dean of the Columbia Climate School and former Special Assistant to Barack Obama, about climate,...
Thursday 28 October 2021 : In a special episode recorded in front of a live audience, Helen and David talk to Hilary Mantel about power, monarchy...
Thursday 21 October 2021 : 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...
Thursday 07 October 2021 : David and Helen are joined by Politico’s chief Europe correspondent Matthew Karnitschnig to explore the consequences of the German...
Thursday 23 September 2021 : We’re back from our summer break with David, Helen and Adam Tooze exploring what the pandemic has revealed about politics, economics and...
Thursday 08 July 2021 : 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...
Thursday 01 July 2021 : The second part of our attempt to answer your questions, this week covering British politics. Helen and David tackle whether Labour can...
Thursday 24 June 2021 : In the first of a short series of episodes, Helen and David do their best to answer your questions about anything and everything. Here,...
Thursday 17 June 2021 : 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...
Thursday 10 June 2021 : 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...
Thursday 03 June 2021 : David talks to historian Linda Colley about her new global history of written constitutions: the paper documents that made and remade the...
Thursday 27 May 2021 : 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...
Thursday 20 May 2021 : We talk to the historian Niall Ferguson about the politics of catastrophe, from pandemics and famines to world wars and climate...
TALKING POLITICS
David Runciman and Catherine Carr
Finale
David, Helen and Catherine get together for our final episode, to reflect on podcasting through six extraordinary years of politics, and...
Helen Thompson/Disorder
For our penultimate episode, David talks to Helen about her new book Disorder: Hard Times in the Twenty-First Century. It’s a conversation...
The Meaning of Macron
David talks to Shahin Vallee and Chris Bickerton about the upcoming French presidential elections. Can anything or anyone stop...
The Meaning of Boris Johnson
David, Helen and Chris Brooke have one more go at making sense of the tangled web that is British politics. Can Johnson really survive,...
Putin’s Next Move
David and Helen talk to Shashank Joshi, Defence Editor of the Economist, about what Vladimir Putin hopes to get out of the Ukraine crisis...
The Next Big Thing
David talks to John Naughton about what’s coming next in the tech revolution and where it’s taking us. From quantum computing to...
American Civil War?
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...
Two Topics for 2022
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...
Boris: The Ghost of Christmas Present
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...
1848 and All That
David and Helen talk to historian Chris Clark about the 1848 revolutions and what they teach us about political change. What explains the...
Supply Chains, Inflation & the Metaverse
In a special episode recorded live at the Bristol Festival of Economics, David and Helen talk to Ed Conway, Economics Editor at Sky News,...
Where is China Heading?
Helen and David talk to Cindy Yu, host of the Chinese Whispers podcast, about the trajectory of Chinese politics. What is Beijing’s...
Climate Ambition vs Energy Reality
David and Helen talk to Jason Bordoff, Dean of the Columbia Climate School and former Special Assistant to Barack Obama, about climate,...
Hilary Mantel
In a special episode recorded in front of a live audience, Helen and David talk to Hilary Mantel about power, monarchy...
Free with Lea Ypi
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...
German Lessons
David and Helen are joined by Politico’s chief Europe correspondent Matthew Karnitschnig to explore the consequences of the German...
Shutdown/Confronting Leviathan
We’re back from our summer break with David, Helen and Adam Tooze exploring what the pandemic has revealed about politics, economics and...
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 our ideas from and what we've learned from...
Q & A With Helen and David: UK Politics and the Union
The second part of our attempt to answer your questions, this week covering British politics. Helen and David tackle whether Labour can...
Q & A with Helen and David: Geopolitics
In the first of a short series of episodes, Helen and David do their best to answer your questions about anything and everything. Here,...
Ed Miliband's Big Ideas
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...
Covid-Union-Labour-Brexit-Climate
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...
Why Constitutions Matter
David talks to historian Linda Colley about her new global history of written constitutions: the paper documents that made and remade the...
England, Their England
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...
Niall Ferguson on Catastrophe
We talk to the historian Niall Ferguson about the politics of catastrophe, from pandemics and famines to world wars and climate...
