Hugo Rifkind unpacks the the politics of the day - and the stuff that's even more important - with the brightest brains from the Times and Sunday Times.
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The Danish political drama is back this year. Matt Chorley speaks to the show's creator Adam Price about life imitating art, what really happens in Danish politics and what to expect in season four. PLUS COLUMNIST FORMEL: James Forsyth and Melanie Reid talk about the Downing Street flat inquiry and the cost of living. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Matt Chorley looks back a year since the Capitol riots with Jamie Roberts and Robert Moore who were there. Also he spoke to Barbara Walter and Carlton Larson on the future of US democracy and a possible civil war. PLUS COLUMNISTS: Knight at the Marriott, India Knight and James Marriott, discuss compulsory vaccines, culture wars and loving pets more than children. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
A special PMQs Unpacked episode after Prime Minister's Questions was pushed back to 3pm. Matt Chorley takes over the role of Tim Shipman and pauses the action in the Commons with Mariella Frostrup. PLUS it's Wednesdays so it's our columnist duo Alibert, Alice Thomson and Robert Crampton on care homes and vaccine exemptions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Matt Chorley speaks to Times Chief Political Commentator Henry Zeffman, former Labour MP Anna Turley, pollster Kelly Beaver and Financial Times journalist Seb Payne about Keir Starmer's speech resetting Labour's agenda, patriotism, and the flag. PLUS Daniel Finkelstein and David Aaronovitch discuss political nomenclature. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Carole Walker, sitting in for Matt Chorley, speaks to historian Brenda Van Coppenolle, and Conservative politicians Geoffrey Clifton Brown and Nicholas Soames about political dynasties in the UK. PLUS The Times' Rachel Sylvester and the New Statesman's Rachel Cunliffe discuss schools, covid and France. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In a Christmas special, fellow Times Radio presenter Luke Jones speaks to Matt Chorley about growing up in Taunton, working in Westminster and what he loves about presenting politics without the boring bits. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
PM Christmas Special: Matt Chorley and historian and author Andrew Gimson dive into the lives of British Prime Ministers. This episodes goes through all the Prime Ministers from Margaret Thatcher to Boris Johnson. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Matt Chorley speaks to a focus group of the podcast's regular Columnists who write for The Times discussing the politics of 2021. In part 2 of 2, Matt asks the group how they'll spend Christmas and which Times Columnist would make the best Prime Minister. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Matt Chorley speaks to a focus group of the podcast's regular Columnists who write for The Times discussing the politics of 2021. In part 1 of 2, Matt asks for the group's political highlight of the year and which politician had the worst year. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Matt Chorley pits Labour's Jonathan Ashworth and Conservative Nicky Morgan, against Times and Sunday Times writers Patrick Maguire and Lindsay McIntosh and Times Radio's Ayesha Hazarika and Alexis Conran to see who will triumph in the big political quiz everyone is calling... Politics Without The Boring Quiz. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
On Christmas Day, Matt Chorley and his fellow Times Radio presenter Mariella Frostrup go through some of their 2021 show highlights. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Matt Chorley presents this year's Times Radio Pantomime, Bojo White and the Seven Political Dwarves. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Matt Chorley talks to Armando Iannucci, the creator of The Day Today, The Thick of It and Veep. They discuss Iannucci's new book Pandemonium: Some Verses on the Current Predicament and what the new year might hold in store. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
No live PMQs this week, so Matt Chorley and Patrick Maguire look back over the year and assess what we've learned from the exchanges at the dispatch box. PLUS Robert Crampton and Alice Thomson look at Conservative regicide and freedom of speech. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Four months on from the evacuation, Jenny Kleeman, in for Matt Chorley, speaks to former Afghan MP Shukria Barakzai, and journalists Lynn O'Donnell and Stuart Ramsay about their experiences fleeing the country, and what life is like there now. PLUS Daniel Finkelstein and David Aaronovitch discuss Lord Frost's politics, and when a party is not a party. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Matt Chorley speaks to Eden Project founder Tim Smit about growing plants, hosting the G7 and making power with hot rocks. PLUS Rachel Sylvester and Libby Purves discuss new possible Covid restrictions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In a special bumper podcast Matt Chorley speaks to Times Political Editor Steve Swinford, Conservative MP Charles Walker and Number 10 veterans Gavin Barwell, James Johnson and Kate Fall about whether the Shropshire by-election defeat could spell the end of Boris Johnson. PLUS Screenwriter Sarah Phelps talks about her latest drama, A Very British Scandal, series 2, which looks at the Duke and Duchess of Argyle's messy public divorce. PLUS Columnists Melanie Reid and James Forsyth pick over the d...
Matt Chorley speaks to COP26 President and self-described "auditor in chief" Alok Sharma about the outcome of the climate summit, the challenges of touring the world in a pandemic, and more. PLUS India Knight and the Daily Mail's John Stevens discuss the day's news. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Matt Chorley and Times Red Box Editor Patrick Maguire pause the action to analyse the exchanges between Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer at Prime Minister's Questions. PLUS: Robert Crampton and Alice Thompson discuss the top stories of the day including the Prime Minister's backbench rebellion. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Matt Chorley speaks to economist, author and presenter of Radio 4's More or Less Tim Harford about how to make sense of the numbers around us, and what we can learn from pandemic statistics. PLUS David Aaronovitch and Daniel Finkelstein discuss the possibility of a new Conservative leader, and David Davis explains why he'll be voting against the government's new covid regulations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Matt Chorley asks comedian Andy Zaltzman, host of the BBC's "The News Quiz", how best to satirise today's politicians. PLUS: Libby Purves and Rachel Sylvester discuss whether Boris Johnson's time as PM is running out of steam and who might replace him. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Luke Jones marks the second anniversary of the 2019 General Election with some of the big winners and losers from that year. How has politics has changed since then? PLUS: Melanie Reid and John Stevens discuss the latest on the political scandal surrounding Number 10 and John has a special scoop on Geronimo the alpaca. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Luke Jones sits in for Matt Chorley and discusses what does China want with former US ambassador to China under the Obama administration Max Baucus, MEP and co-chair of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China Reinhard Hans Bütikofer and Senior Research Fellow at RUSI Veerle Nouwens. PLUS columnists Carol Lewis and James Marriott on Plan B, Christmas Parties and taking pride in Britain's past. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Luke Jones sits in for Matt Chorley. Panto is back so Luke speaks to producers, writers and directors including; Robert Shaw Cameron, Vikki Stone, Lisa Spirling and Michael Harrison. PLUS Daniel Finkelstein and David Aaronovitch on cancel culture and bringing back old TV hits. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
One hundred years after the Anglo-Irish treaty was signed, Luke Jones (in for Matt Chorley) goes back to the moment in history when the treaty was agreed and its impact on relations between both countries up to this day. PLUS: Libby Purves and Rachel Sylvester talk about new plans to punish middle-class drug users, and the man who made Britain's biggest model railway. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
As the Lords debate a bill over whether to scrap Hereditary Peers by-elections, Matt Chorley finds out how the Hereditary Peer by-election system works and speaks to the Lord behind the bill. PLUS: Melanie Reid and James Forsyth discuss the day's headlines Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Matt Chorley looks at the progress of the campaign against smoking, which began in 1971, and the politics of lighting up with Former Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt who passed the public smoking ban in 2007. PLUS: India Knight and John Stevens discuss whether they'll go to their office Christmas party and whether they'll miss Angela Merkel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Matt Chorley and Times Red Box Editor Patrick Maguire pause the action to analyse the exchanges between Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer at Prime Minister's Questions. PLUS: Robert Crampton and Alice Thompson discuss the top stories of the day. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Former Number 10 pollster James Johnson convenes the final Times Radio focus group of the year to discuss new covid measures and what to get Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer for Christmas. PLUS Daniel Finkelstein and David Aaronovitch discuss reshuffles. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Matt Chorley assesses the state of relations between Britain and France with Lord Ricketts, Britain’s ambassador to Paris from 2012 until 2016, and Sylvie Berman, France’s ambassador to London from 2014-17. One of them rates the relationship as 3 or 4 out of 10, the other thinks it's as bad as anything since Waterloo. Plus Libby Purves and Rachel Sylvester on the politics of pandemic panic and the prospect of a Labour reshuffle. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
