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 15 April 2021 : 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...
Thursday 08 April 2021 : 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...
Thursday 01 April 2021 : 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...
Thursday 25 March 2021 : David and Helen talk to Chris Bickerton about how technocracy and populism have come together to create a new form of democratic...
Thursday 18 March 2021 : David talks to Helen Thompson and Adam Tooze about the choices facing the world in addressing climate change. Can we transition away from...
Thursday 11 March 2021 : This week we discuss the government's post-Budget economic strategy and the new dividing lines in British politics. Have the Tories stolen...
Thursday 04 March 2021 : 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...
Thursday 25 February 2021 : This week we talk to Suzanne Heywood about her memoir of her late husband, Cabinet Secretary Jeremy Heywood - the man who helped to run...
Thursday 18 February 2021 : David and Helen talk to Nick Timothy, former chief of staff in Downing Street under Theresa May, about the future for Boris Johnson's...
Thursday 11 February 2021 : David talks to Bronwen Maddox, Director of the Institute for Government, about how well the Johnson government has performed over the past...
Tuesday 09 February 2021 : In this extra episode David catches up with Thant Myint-U to discuss the latest developments in Burma (Myanmar), following the overthrow of...
Thursday 04 February 2021 : 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...
Tuesday 02 February 2021 : This is episode 1 of the new HISTORY OF IDEAS series from Talking Politics. To hear the remaining 11 episodes, please subscribe to History...
Thursday 28 January 2021 : We look at two countries where things may be changing: Germany, as it starts to imagine life beyond Merkel, and Italy, after the resignation...
Wednesday 20 January 2021 : David, Helen and Gary reflect on what lies ahead for American politics and for the Biden administration. Does Trump pose more of a threat...
Thursday 14 January 2021 : 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...
Monday 11 January 2021 : 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...
Thursday 07 January 2021 : 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...
Sunday 03 January 2021 : Another recent talk by David on democracy: does it make sense to talk about fixing British democracy, and if so, how? David discusses...
Thursday 31 December 2020 : A recording of a recent talk by David on what we've learned in 2020 about the resilience of democratic societies in the face of...
Thursday 24 December 2020 : This week David, Helen and our producer Catherine Carr look back at five years of podcasting and five years of crazy politics, to pick our...
Thursday 17 December 2020 : We look past Covid and Brexit to ask where the long-term opposition to Johnson's government is going to come from. Can Corbynism remain a...
Thursday 10 December 2020 : As we wait for a Brexit deal or no deal, we discuss what the next year might hold for French and Italian politics. What are Macron's...
Thursday 03 December 2020 : We try to join the dots from the final days of the Brexit negotiations to the looming prospect of another referendum on Scottish...
Thursday 26 November 2020 : This week we talk about race and representation with Cathy Cohen of the GenForward Survey project based in Chicago. What do young Americans...
TALKING POLITICS
David Runciman and Catherine Carr
Wales, England and the Future of the UK
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...
Adam Curtis
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...
How's Biden Doing
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...
Technopopulism
David and Helen talk to Chris Bickerton about how technocracy and populism have come together to create a new form of democratic...
The Tragic Choices of Climate Change
David talks to Helen Thompson and Adam Tooze about the choices facing the world in addressing climate change. Can we transition away from...
Sunakonomics
This week we discuss the government's post-Budget economic strategy and the new dividing lines in British politics. Have the Tories stolen...
Northern Ireland: Past, Present, Future
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...
What Does Jeremy Think?
This week we talk to Suzanne Heywood about her memoir of her late husband, Cabinet Secretary Jeremy Heywood - the man who helped to run...
Is Boris Back?
David and Helen talk to Nick Timothy, former chief of staff in Downing Street under Theresa May, about the future for Boris Johnson's...
Rating the Government on Covid
David talks to Bronwen Maddox, Director of the Institute for Government, about how well the Johnson government has performed over the past...
The Coup in Burma
In this extra episode David catches up with Thant Myint-U to discuss the latest developments in Burma (Myanmar), following the overthrow of...
What is the Union?
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...
History of Ideas S2 E1 : Rousseau on Inequality
This is episode 1 of the new HISTORY OF IDEAS series from Talking Politics. To hear the remaining 11 episodes, please subscribe to History...
Germany, Italy, Coalitions and Vaccines
We look at two countries where things may be changing: Germany, as it starts to imagine life beyond Merkel, and Italy, after the resignation...
Biden Begins
David, Helen and Gary reflect on what lies ahead for American politics and for the Biden administration. Does Trump pose more of a threat...
The Long-term Legacy of Brexit
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...
Jill Lepore on the Insurrection
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...
New Year, New World?
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...
How to Fix British Democracy?
Another recent talk by David on democracy: does it make sense to talk about fixing British democracy, and if so, how? David discusses...
Did Covid Kill the Climate?
A recording of a recent talk by David on what we've learned in 2020 about the resilience of democratic societies in the face of...
Looking Back, Looking Forward
This week David, Helen and our producer Catherine Carr look back at five years of podcasting and five years of crazy politics, to pick our...
Where is the Opposition?
We look past Covid and Brexit to ask where the long-term opposition to Johnson's government is going to come from. Can Corbynism remain a...
What's Next for France and Italy?
As we wait for a Brexit deal or no deal, we discuss what the next year might hold for French and Italian politics. What are Macron's...
From Brexit to Scottish Independence
We try to join the dots from the final days of the Brexit negotiations to the looming prospect of another referendum on Scottish...
Young People vs Joe Biden
This week we talk about race and representation with Cathy Cohen of the GenForward Survey project based in Chicago. What do young Americans...
