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Episodes

Total: 379

New Podcast: These Times

2023/5/11

UnHerd political editor Tom McTague and Cambridge professor Helen Thompson team up to investigate th

Talking Politics producer Catherine Carr returns to her role as mic-wielder in 'Where Are You Going?

Past Present Future is a new weekly podcast with David Runciman, host of Talking Politics, exploring

Finale

2022/3/3

David, Helen and Catherine get together for our final episode, to reflect on podcasting through

Helen Thompson/Disorder

2022/2/24

For our penultimate episode, David talks to Helen about her new book Disorder: Hard Times in the Twe

The Meaning of Macron

2022/2/17

David talks to Shahin Vallee and Chris Bickerton about the upcoming French presidential electio

David, Helen and Chris Brooke have one more go at making sense of the tangled web that is Briti

Putin’s Next Move

2022/2/3

David and Helen talk to Shashank Joshi, Defence Editor of the Economist, about what Vladimir Putin h

The Next Big Thing

2022/1/27

David talks to John Naughton about what’s coming next in the tech revolution and where it’s taking u

American Civil War?

2022/1/20

One year on from Joe Biden’s inauguration David and Helen talk with Gary Gerstle about what’s gone w

Two Topics for 2022

2022/1/6

To kick off the new year David and Helen are joined by historian Robert Saunders to talk about two p

David and Helen talk through what’s going on with the prime minister, the pandemic and the state of

1848 and All That

2021/12/16

David and Helen talk to historian Chris Clark about the 1848 revolutions and what they teach us abou

In a special episode recorded live at the Bristol Festival of Economics, David and Helen talk t

Where is China Heading?

2021/11/18

Helen and David talk to Cindy Yu, host of the Chinese Whispers podcast, about the trajectory of Chin

David and Helen talk to Jason Bordoff, Dean of the Columbia Climate School and former Special&n

Hilary Mantel

2021/10/28

In a special episode recorded in front of a live audience, Helen and David talk to Hilary Mantel abo

Free with Lea Ypi

2021/10/21

David talks with Lea Ypi about her astonishing new memoir Free: Coming of Age at the End of History,

German Lessons

2021/10/7

David and Helen are joined by Politico’s chief Europe correspondent Matthew Karnitschnig to explore

Shutdown/Confronting Leviathan

2021/9/23

We’re back from our summer break with David, Helen and Adam Tooze exploring what the pandemic has re