Book Club: Shaun Bythell – Return of the Bookseller Diarist
For this week’s Book Club, Sam Leith, the Spectator’s literary editor, is joined by Shaun Bythell, proprietor of The Book Shop in Wigtown, Scotland, and author of The Diary of a Bookseller series, to ...
14 Okt 31min
Quite right! LIVE: Nick Timothy on Islamist extremism
Michael Gove is joined by shadow justice secretary Nick Timothy, live at Conservative party conference in Birmingham, to discuss prisons, policing and the fight against Islamist extremism. Nick reflec...
13 Okt 37min
Spectator Out Loud: Prue Leith, John Connolly, Flora Watkins & Lloyd Evans
On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Prue Leith covers her foray into fashion and her life post-Bake Off; John Connolly explores Manchester's close links with the UAE; Flora Watkins asks whatever happen...
11 Okt 25min
Holy Smoke: Charles Owen on hearing God through Liszt
Franz Liszt is remembered as one of the great showmen of the 19th century: a dazzling virtuoso, breaker of pianos and notorious womaniser who inspired a frenzy among his admirers. But a profound Catho...
11 Okt 26min
Reality Check LIVE: Why aren't Britain's young people working? | with Laura Trott
For this special edition of Reality Check, economics editor Michael Simmons hosts a panel from Conservative Party conference on Britain’s growing NEETs crisis: the hundreds of thousands of young peopl...
10 Okt 39min
The Edition: Why is antisemitism rising in Britain? – with Andrew Roberts & Peter Hitchens
For this week’s Edition, Lara Prendergast is joined by the Spectator’s commissioning editor Tali Fraser, Mail on Sunday columnist Peter Hitchens and the historian and Conservative peer Andrew Roberts....
9 Okt 46min
Book Club: Matthew Sweet – The Great Dictator
In this week’s Book Club podcast, Sam Leith is joined by author Matthew Sweet to discuss his new biography, The Great Dictator, about the bestselling novelist Barbara Cartland.They explore the extraor...
7 Okt 44min
Quite right! LIVE: Are the Tories back?
Kemi Badenoch has opened Conservative party conference 2026 with statement on her political philosophy, and Michael and Maddie are in Birmingham to go through it. Michael is struck by how much of it d...
7 Okt 30min
