TALKING POLITICS

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Episodes

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Our final session of answering your questions, starting with Trump and moving on to where we get our

The second part of our attempt to answer your questions, this week covering British politics. H

In the first of a short series of episodes, Helen and David do their best to answer your questions a

Ed Miliband's Big Ideas

2021/6/17

David talks to Ed Miliband about the thinking behind his new book Go Big. What are the ideas th

This week David and Helen take stock of the state of British politics, looking at how the big themes

Why Constitutions Matter

2021/6/3

David talks to historian Linda Colley about her new global history of written constitutions: the pap

England, Their England

2021/5/27

We talk to the historians Robert Tombs and Robert Saunders about the history of England and the futu

We talk to the historian Niall Ferguson about the politics of catastrophe, from pandemics and famine

Election Fallout

2021/5/13

David and Helen are joined by the historian Colin Kidd to try to make sense of last week's elections

We talk to Michael Lewis about his new book The Premonition, which tells the story of the people who

After Merkel, What?

2021/4/29

We talk to Hans Kundnani about the prospects for German politics in the run-up to September's federa

Union at the Crossroads

2021/4/22

David and Helen talk to Mike Kenny about what devolution has done to the politics of the UK as seen

As part of our series about the future of the Union, David and Helen talk to Dan Wincott of Cardiff

Adam Curtis

2021/4/8

This week David talks to the celebrated film-maker Adam Curtis about his new series Can't Get You Ou

How's Biden Doing

2021/4/1

70 days into the first 100 days we take the temperature of the Biden presidency and ask how he's doi

Technopopulism

2021/3/25

David and Helen talk to Chris Bickerton about how technocracy and populism have come together to cre

David talks to Helen Thompson and Adam Tooze about the choices facing the world in addressing climat

Sunakonomics

2021/3/11

This week we discuss the government's post-Budget economic strategy and the new dividing lines in Br

 In the latest in our series on the fate of the Union, we talk to historians Richard Bourke and

What Does Jeremy Think?

2021/2/25

This week we talk to Suzanne Heywood about her memoir of her late husband, Cabinet Secretary Jeremy