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Jeremy sits down with the Astronomer Royal, Lord Martin Rees. As well as being the nation's foremost stargazer, he is the founder of the Centre for Existential Risk at Cambridge, which means he spends a great deal of time thinking about how humanity might face its doom. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jeremy sits down with Toby Young, founder of the Free Speech Union, to discuss cancel culture, free speech, etc. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jeremy sits down with an intellectual hero of his and nobel winner, Amartya Sen, to discuss welfare economics, colonialism, higher education, and the compensations of age. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jeremy sits down with the Mayor of Greater Manchester and one of Labour's current success stories, Andy Burnham, to talk about devolution to the North. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jeremy sits down with Jed Mercurio, writer of Line of Duty and other hit dramas, to talk TV, police, conspiracies, and writing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jeremy sits down with Michael Burleigh, a distinguished historian who has recently turned his hand to the subject of political assassination in his book 'Day of the Assassins. It's a blood-spattered thriller of a read, and the conversation covers assassinations of all stripes and from all angles, including the murderers of Trotsky, JFK, Martin Luther King, Caesar, and more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jeremy sits down with Salman Rushdie, celebrated novelist. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jeremy sits down with Enric Sala, National Geographic Explorer in Residence. He has dived all over the world and campaigns to create marine protected areas. They talk fish, conservation, the Hebrides, Galapagos, Mediterranean, and more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jeremy sits down with Andrew Hunter Murray, co-host of the podcast juggernaut, 'No Such Thing As A Fish'. He also indulges in Jane Austen improv comedy, and, more recently, thriller writing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jeremy sits down with former Downing Street head of communications Alastair Campbell, the real-life Malcolm Tucker and most prolific diarist since Samuel Pepys. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jeremy has a 'drink' with Conn Iggulden, one of the country's foremost writers of historical fiction. On the menu: history, Kent, time machines, the Queen, Pericles, Thermopylae, and more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week Jeremy is with Sam Lee, folk singer and Nightingale obsessive. On the menu, everything and anything to do with the greatest avian singer of all. Why do they sing so well? What do they sound like? Why are they so mythologised? Where can you hear them? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jeremy has another virtual pint with Justin Maciejewski, director of the National Army Museum, former soldier and former McKinsey consultant, and a deeply thoughtful commentator on the military, one of Jeremy's fondest subjects. On the menu: the role and size of the army, military history, the army's pandemic response, poetry, recruiting, outsourcing, and all sorts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jeremy has another virtual pint with Armando Iannucci, creator of a litany of comedy hits such In the Loop, The Thick of It, Veep, Alan Partridge, etc. On the menu: comedy, writing, Milton, Boris Johnson, much more. Alas, no beer. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jeremy sits down with the conservation legend Jake Fiennes, scion of one of England's most overachieving families. On the menu: birdsong, nightingales, partridges, sward, the future of the countryside, the glories of Holkham, and more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week it's the Director General of the National Trust, one of Britain's biggest heritage organisations and the custodian of hundreds of our finest castles, great houses and beaches, along with vast swathes of our treasured countryside. They discuss recent controversies over the Trust's vision for the future, its focus on the history of slavery, as well as the plummeting revenues and job losses of the pandemic. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jeremy sits down with Naz Shah, MP for Bradford West and one of the least typical members of Parliament he has ever met. On the menu: Naz's unusual route into Parliament; authenticity in politics; her favourite Tories; empowerment of women; race; generosity of spirit; Hajj; Ramadan; climbing the greasy pole and the Bradford renaissance. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jeremy sits down with Rowan Hooper of the New Scientist, author of 'How To Spend a Trillion Dollars'. On the menu is a hard headed look at how humanity might come by such a sum, and the best ways to blow it in order to better our global state. High on the list of topics: climate change. AI, alien life, curing illness. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jeremy sits down with one of his heroes, Eliot Higgins, founder of the citizen spy agency, Bellingcat. From his desk in Leicester, Higgins has embarrassed spy agencies around the world, and unmasked some of Russia's most dangerous professional assassins. He has scooped global news organisations and taken on some of the world's most savage dictatorships. Jeremy asks him how he did it all, and what happens next for Bellingcat? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Another virtual pint. Jeremy sits down with the writer Tony Parsons, author of many novels, most famously 'Man and Boy'. On the menu, writing, lockdown, getting away with it, resilience, adversity, funeral arrangements, Bowie, and more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jeremy sits down with Sir William Atkinson, the superhead who came to Britain from Jamaica at the age of seven, and in a stellar career earned a knighthood, and some fame, for turning round some of the country's toughest schools. On the agenda: teaching, rugby, racism, history, ambition, pubs Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jeremy has a pint with David Runciman, host of the Talking Politics podcast, author, and Cambridge Professor. They discuss the waning public faith in democracy and how it might be fixed. Should we let children vote? Should we make people pass a test to vote? Should we at least try something to arrest the alarming trend of people turning away from the system of government meant to be the worst except for all the others? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jeremy has a 'pint' with Sir David Omand, former head of the government's listening, GCHQ, and thus one of our top spies. Topics include the power of rational thinking, how an intelligence analyst would go about buying a house, the need for a devil's advocate, how to keep kids safe on the internet, and how Edward Snowden should have gone about his historic leak. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jeremy talks to Dr Rachel Clarke, specialist in palliative care, about the meaning of a good death and her experience of the pandemic. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jeremy has another imaginary pint with Helen Pluckrose, co-author of 'Cynical Theories' and participant in the infamous 'grievance studies affair'. Helen unpicks the intellectual history of 'woke' thought, Jeremy is baffled. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
With pubs still closed, Jeremy has yet another virtual pint with Andrew Dole, creator of Twitter sensation, Titania McGrath. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jeremy sits down with Tom Holland, one of Britain's best-known historians, to discuss no less a subject than the making of the modern world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jeremy enjoys another notional pint with Ben Macintyre, a man who knows more about spies than is healthy for anyone. They discuss Agent Sonya, the woman who stole Britain's nuclear secrets for the Soviet Union and almost assassinated Hitler. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jeremy sits down with Clare Balding broadcaster, rambler, scion of a racing dynasty, and now the author of a book about 'heroic animals'. Topics include racing, dogs, donkeys, anthropomorphisation. Jeremy makes a tabloid confession. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jeremy enjoys an actual pint with Matt Parr, a former nuclear submarine commander and Rear Admiral, Submarines. They discuss the merits of life in "an expanded cigarette tube, underwater". Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
