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Is technology making us lonely?

Oct 22 • 34 min

Ayesha Hazarika is joined by Will Tanner, former advisor to Theresa May, and Resolution Foundation Director Torsten Bell, to discuss their under-reported stories of the week. Will talked about the government’s Loneliness Strategy that launched on Monday,…

The Italian village that dared defy Salvini

Oct 15 • 30 min

Ayesha Hazarika is joined by Melissa Benn, campaigner and author of Life Lessons: The Case for a National Education Service, and journalist James Bloodworth, to discuss their under-reported stories of the week. James highlighted Amazon’s pay-rise for its…

Can an algorithm predict child abuse?

Sep 21 • 33 min

Ayesha Hazarika is joined by Jamie Susskind, author of Future Politics, and social entrepreneur Zehra Zaidi, to discuss their under-reported stories of the week. Jamie highlighted the use of algorithms by local government in predicting child abuse, and…

Giles Fraser in conversation with Neil MacGregor

Sep 17 • 45 min

Neil MacGregor’s Living with the Gods was an award-winning Radio 4 series, and has now been made into a book of the same title. To bring things full circle, I sat down with him to turn the written word back into the spoken one; we talked about the…

How social media is making us all fascist

Sep 13 • 36 min

In this week’s podcast, Ayesha Hazarika is joined by Jamie Bartlett, author of The People Vs Tech, The Dark Net and Radicals, and Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland, to discuss stories they think are under-reported by the mainstream media. Jamie…

The myth of white genocide

Sep 7 • 36 min

Ayesha Hazarika is joined by Gavin Haynes, Editor at Large for Vice, and Carl Miller, author of the new book The Death of the Gods: The New Global Power Grab, to discuss their under-reported stories of the week. Carl raises the issue of the changing…

It’s time to talk about taxing wealth

Sep 3 • 34 min

In this week’s podcast, Charlotte Pickles is joined by Paul Johnson, Director of the Institute of Fiscal Studies, to discuss the role the tax system may be playing in people’s loss of faith in capitalism. Why do we treat unearned income more generously…

Are we governed by a bluffocracy?

Aug 20 • 30 min

In this week’s podcast, Charlotte Pickles is joined by journalist James Ball and UnHerd’s Peter Franklin, to discuss James’ new book Bluffocracy. As self-confessed members of the so-called bluffocracy, the panellists ask: is Britain really governed by an…

‘Open vs Closed’ – the political divide of our time?

Aug 15 • 58 min

In this week’s podcast, Charlotte Pickles is joined by political scientist Matthew Goodwin and Times columnist David Aaronovitch, to discuss the political categorisation “Open versus Closed”. Is it a useful way of capturing the political realignment we…

The future of the family

Jul 27 • 38 min

The future of the family by UnHerd Podcasts

Will AI kill us all?

Jul 19 • 35 min

In this week’s podcast, Ayesha Hazarika is joined by science writer and author, Tom Chivers, and political journalist Jane Merrick, to discuss under-reported stories from across the week. Tom highlights the subject of his recent piece for UnHerd: the risk…

Dead-end jobs and forgotten towns

Jul 13 • 34 min

Ayesha Hazarika is joined by UnHerd columnist and author, James Bloodworth, and Polly Mackenzie, Director of Demos think tank. This week, the panel discuss UnHerd’s latest audio documentary, presented by James Bloodworth: ‘How dead-end jobs killed…

What does the World Cup squad say about modern England?

Jul 6 • 34 min

Ayesha Hazarika is joined by Sunder Katwala, Director of British Future, and Phillip Blond, Director of ResPublica, to discuss the week’s under–reported stories. Sunder highlights the diversity of the England World Cup squad and what it says about modern…

Is Mexico about to elect its own Trump?

Jun 28 • 39 min

This week, Ayesha Hazarika is joined by David Goodhart, author of The Road to Somewhere, and Charlotte Pickles, managing editor at UnHerd. Charlotte’s under–reported story of the week is the upcoming Mexican elections, where corruption, poverty and…

The real winners of the Singapore summit

Jun 21 • 38 min

This week, Ayesha Hazarika is joined by commentator Marie Le Conte and historian and UnHerd columnist, Michael Burleigh, to discuss the week’s under–reported stories. Marie highlights the decline of the mainstream parties in France and asks, when voters…

Russia scores a goal on energy policy

Jun 15 • 42 min

Ayesha Hazarika is joined by New Statesman Deputy Editor, Helen Lewis, and UnHerd contributor and Telegraph columnist, Liam Halligan, to talk about the week’s under–reported stories. Helen raises Mumsnet’s tough new rules about discussion of trans issues;…

Should we pardon drug users?

Jun 8 • 37 min

Ayesha Hazarika is joined by Kate Andrews, news editor at the IEA, and UnHerd’s very own associate editor, Peter Franklin, to discuss under-reported stories from the week. Kate’s story of the week was Trump’s pardoning of Alice Marie Johnson and the wider…

Is capitalism making us less moral?

May 31 • 34 min

Ayesha Hazarika is joined by, Mark Wallace, executive editor of Conservative Home, and Victoria Bateman, fellow in Economics at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, to discuss under–reported stories from the week. Victoria highlights the correlation…

How to save the high street

May 25 • 32 min

This week Ayesha Hazarika is joined by political strategist and commentator, John McTernan, and former spokesman for Jeremy Corbyn, Matt Zarb–Cousin, to discuss their under–reported stories from the week. John raises the issue of the death of retail and…

What’s the point of Prime Minister’s Questions?

May 18 • 33 min

This week Ayesha Hazarika is joined by Miranda Green, Financial Times deputy comment editor, and Tom Hamilton, former advisor to Ed Miliband, to discuss their under-reported stories from across the week. Miranda raises the issue of rail nationalisation…

The Chinese trade challenge

May 11 • 30 min

This week Ayesha Hazarika is joined by Juliet Samuel, Telegraph columnist and presenter of a new UnHerd documentary on China and trade, and Henry Olsen, UnHerd flyover editor, to discuss their under-reported stories and their heroes and villains of the…

Who speaks for unheard London?

May 4 • 45 min

Who speaks for unheard London? by UnHerd Podcasts

Could Nicaragua become the next Venezuela?

Apr 27 • 35 min

This week, Ayesha Hazarika is joined by News Editor at the Institute for Economic Affairs, Kate Andrews, and journalist and author of ‘Hired’, James Bloodworth, to discuss their under–reported stories as well as their heroes and villains of the week.…

#23 – All–seeing Chinese surveillance and a police officer turned pimp

Apr 19 • 36 min

#23 – All–seeing Chinese surveillance and a police officer turned pimp by UnHerd Podcasts

#22 – Gambling, anti semitism and BBC bias

Apr 13 • 38 min

#22 – Gambling, anti semitism and BBC bias by UnHerd Podcasts

#21 - Israel, refugees and female-only train compartments

Apr 6 • 38 min

Ayesha Hazarika is joined by journalist and author Christina Patterson and journalist and commentator for the Guardian Rachel Shabi, to discuss the stories that have been largely underreported across the week. The underreported stories this week include,…

#20 Echo chambers and emigration

Mar 29 • 31 min

In this weeks podcast, Ayesha Hazarika is joined by Mark Wallace, executive editor of Conservative Home and freelance journalist Marie Le Conte. This week’s underreported topics include, echo chambers and if they are really that bad, and the impact of…

#19 - The Cambridge Analytica scandal, the gender pay gap and a world-ending asteroid

Mar 23 • 25 min

In this week’s podcast, Ayesha Hazarika was joined by UnHerd technology editor Nigel Cameron and playwright and commentator Bonnie Greer. Each of the panellists brought along a recent story they felt had gone underreported by the mainstream media. Stories…

#18 - Is Corbyn being too soft on Russia?

Mar 16 • 37 min

In this week’s podcast, Ayesha Hazarika was joined by political journalists, Jane Merrick and Andrew Gimson to discuss events from across the week. Each of the panel suggested a story they felt had gone under-reported, including, the recent attacks on…

#17 - The trouble with International Women’s Day

Mar 8 • 32 min

#17 - The trouble with International Women’s Day by UnHerd Podcasts

#16 - Should policy-makers be moving jobs to areas of unemployment

Mar 2 • 38 min

Ayesha Hazarika and Tim Montgomerie are joined by flyover editor Henry Olsen to discuss Brexit, Trump and the direction they are going.

#15 - There are reasons Amazon is cheap…

Feb 22 • 32 min

Tim Montgomerie is joined by James Bloodworth to discuss his new book, “Hired”.

#14 - The state of feminism

Feb 8 • 31 min

Ayesha Hazarika is joined by Charlotte Pickles, Victoria Bateman and Hannah Peaker to discuss UnHerd’s recent wealth tax documentary and the future of feminism.

#13 - The seven ills of capitalism

Feb 1 • 26 min

Ayesha Hazarika and Peter Franklin are joined by Ann Pettifor to discuss the ills of capitalism and where it goes from here.

#12 - Never Trump and never Corbyn: Where are they now?

Jan 26 • 31 min

Tim Montgomerie and Ayesha Hazarika are joined by Jon Steafel to discuss the never Trump and Never Corbyn movements.

#11 - Why are so many stories under-reported?

Jan 18 • 29 min

Tim Montgomerie and Ayesha Hazarika are joined by Jon Steafel to discuss UnHerd’s under-reported series.

#10 - Solutions to the causes of Brexit and Trump

Dec 18, 2017 • 44 min

Tim Montgomerie and Ayesha Hazarika are joined by Robert Peston, ITN’s Political Editor

UnHerd weekly podcast - Ep9 with Kate Andrews and Lord Falconer

Dec 13, 2017 • 31 min

Tim Montgomerie and Ayesha Hazarika are joined by Kate Andrews from the IEA and Labour peer Lord Falconer to discuss Brexit

UnHerd weekly podcast - Ep8 with James Bloodworth and Edward Davies

Dec 7, 2017 • 34 min

Tim Montgomerie and Ayesha Hazarika are joined by Edward Davies and Jams Bloodworth to discuss if things really are getting better for those at the bottom.

UnHerd weekly podcast - Ep7 with Tim Farron

Dec 1, 2017 • 29 min

Tim Montgomerie and Ayesaha Hazarika speak with former Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron about his recent speech and if liberalism is eating itself.

UnHerd weekly podcast - Ep6 with Douglas Murray

Nov 9, 2017 • 34 min

UnHerd’s sixth podcast featuring, Tim Montgomerie joined by Douglas Murray to discuss, the communist terror, the BBC and Trump

UnHerd weekly podcast - Ep5 with Jimmy Burns

Nov 2, 2017 • 25 min

UnHerd’s fifth podcast featuring, Ayesha Hazarika, Liam Halligan and special guest, Jimmy Burns.

UnHerd weekly podcast - Ep4 with Nigel Cameron

Oct 26, 2017 • 34 min

UnHerd’s fourth podcast featuring Tim Montgomerie, Ayesha Hazarika and special guest, Nigel Cameron.

UnHerd weekly podcast - Ep3 with Peter Franklin

Oct 19, 2017 • 34 min

UnHerd’s third podcast featuring Tim Montgomerie, Ayesha Hazarika and special guest, Peter Franklin.

UnHerd weekly podcast - Ep2 with Nick Boles MP

Oct 12, 2017 • 30 min

UnHerd’s second podcast featuring Tim Montgomerie, Ayesha Hazarika and special guest, Nick Boles MP.

UnHerd weekly podcast - Episode 1

Sep 21, 2017 • 35 min

UnHerd’s first podcast featuring Tim Montgomerie, Ayesha Hazarika and special guest, Sam Tarry.

Introducing the UnHerd Podcast

Sep 18, 2017 • 2 min

Introducing the UnHerd Podcast by UnHerd Podcasts