On this week’s episode, Peter and Sarah ask why crazed ideologies seem to have taken root at the heart of both the BBC and the publishing world as we examine the corporation’s latest missteps and the scandalous case of author Kate Clanchy’s cancellation.  

Plus, being berated on social media over shots of your bookshelf, trying to take the train to Glasgow on a Sunday (a schoolgirl error) and why novels need more vivid descriptions of food and drink. 

On our reading and watch list this week: 

·      Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me – Kate Clanchy

·      The War Game – Dir: Peter Watkins

·      Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime 1919-1924 – Richard Pipes

·      The Death Of Faith – Donna Leon

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Presenters: Sarah Vine & Peter Hitchens

Producer: Philip Wilding

Editor: Chelsey Moore

Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini

Executive Producer: Jamie East

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On this week’s episode, Peter wants to know if the government really going to strip Andrew of his Falkland campaign medals and, in the light of this week’s attack, Sarah will be asking what kind of security do our transport systems need to make us feel safe?

Plus, don’t get them started on parking permit portals, underwired bras, and the awfulness of some architects, but do ask them what historical biographies you should read. 

On our reading and watch list this week: 

·      Elysium – Dir: Neill Blomkamp

·      The Deluge – Adam Tooze

·      All The King’s Men – Robert Penn Warren

·      Young Stalin - Simon Sebag Montefiore

·      Scum Of The Earth - Arthur Koestle

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Presenters: Sarah Vine & Peter Hitchens

Producer: Philip Wilding

Editor: Chelsey Moore

Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini

Executive Producer: Jamie East

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On this week’s episode, Peter will be asking why Britain’s infrastructure is so very awful and why are we concreting over so much over the countryside and then sticking ugly new buildings all over it. While Sarah is dumbfounded by the fact that the Home Office costs £23billion and spends it time blundering from one debacle to another.

Plus, Sarah reveals what ministers really fight over. And the pair really can’t find any common ground when it comes to Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here. 

On our reading and watch list this week: 

·      Pink Floyd – The Wall (Dir: Alan Parker)

·      Peter Hitchens - The Rage Against God

·      Christian Wolmar - On the Wrong Line: How Ideology and Incompetence Wrecked Britain's Railways

·      Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Micah Clarke

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Presenters: Sarah Vine & Peter Hitchens

Producer: Philip Wilding

Editor: Chelsey Moore

Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini

Executive Producer: Jamie East

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On this week’s episode, Peter is rejoicing in the news that the clocks revert to true time on Sunday, whatever that might mean, and Sarah is asking why the hell we closed down schools during the Covid 19 pandemic and what long-term damage it’s done to our kids.

Plus, why does Sarah think politics in its current form is beyond saving, and why her dad had many, many accents. While Peter wonders if we’re seeing the monarchy’s endgame. 

On our reading and watch list this week: 

·      P.G. Wodehouse – Big Money

·      Peter Hitchens – Now Is Not The Time

·      Edmund Burke – The Evils Of Revolution

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Presenters: Sarah Vine & Peter Hitchens

Producer: Philip Wilding

Editor: Philip Wilding

Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini

Executive Producer: Jamie East

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On this week’s episode, on what would have been Margaret Thatcher’s hundredth birthday, Peter and Sarah tussle over the former PM’s legacy, charisma and what she did or did not do for this country. Elsewhere, Sarah asks why should King Charles solve the problem that is Prince Andrew when the King’s brother should admit he’s a liability and retire from the public eye? 

Plus, where do our hosts like to holiday (Peter is not a beach bum for those who were curious)? What was Peter doing with the paparazzi staring at Princess Di? And why we should think long and hard about the repeal of the Corn Laws.

On our reading and watch list this week: 

·      Donna Leon – Death at La Fenice

·      Don’t Look Now – Director: Nicolas Roeg

·      Robert Browning – A Toccata of Galuppi’s  

·      Not for Turning, and Everything She Wants - Charles Moore

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Presenters: Sarah Vine & Peter Hitchens

Producer: Philip Wilding

Editor: Chelsey Moore

Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini

Executive Producer: Jamie East

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On this week’s episode, Peter and Sarah ask why parks shit down at the first sign of inclement weather? Why do under twenty-five-year-olds feel the need to rail against something, but not bother to read up on it first (we’ve all been there)? Elsewhere, Peter recalls chasing a bicycle thief while hitting him about the head with a bag of dirty laundry. Not to be outdone, Sarah admits to punching her brother in the face with her car keys, which should teach them both something about bringing up politics at a restaurant table. 

On our reading and watch list this week: 

·      Anshel Pfeffer - Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu

·      E.H. Gombrich - A Little History of the World

·      Roy Strong – The Story Of Britain

·      Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall - Our Island Story: A History of Britain for Boys and Girls from the Romans to Queen Victoria

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Presenters: Sarah Vine & Peter Hitchens

Producer: Philip Wilding

Editor: Chelsey Moore

Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini

Executive Producer: Jamie East

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On this week’s episode, Peter and Sarah debate the idea of Digital ID cards, wonder at the minutiae we’re obsessed with as a nation, also, what did Sarah make of Michael Gove’s admission of his drug taking past? And sticking with history, where would our intrepid pair travel to if they could go anywhere in time and what one artifact or memento would they bring back with them? 

On our reading and watch list this week: 

·      The Lost World – Arthur Conan Doyle

·      Sneakers – Director: Phil Alden Robinson

·      Time Of Hope – C.P. Snow

·      The Cameron Delusion – Peter Hitchens

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Presenters: Sarah Vine & Peter Hitchens

Producer: Philip Wilding

Editor: Alex Graham

Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini

Executive Producer: Jamie East

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On this week’s episode, Peter and Sarah tussle with medical tourism and bloody murder. Peter wants to know what drives an assassin to kill and Sarah is asking why we’re allowing our already overrun NHS to become a destination for so called health tourists.

Elsewhere, modern Methodism, being heckled by Danny Kruger while he was still a staunch Tory and is it the Union Jack or Union Flag or can it be both? Tune in to find out.

On our reading, watch and listening list this week: 

·      Night Falls On The City – Sarah Gainham

·      The Rage Against God – Peter Hitchens

·      Critical: Why the NHS is being betrayed and how we can fight for it – Dr Julia Grace Patterson

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Presenters: Sarah Vine & Peter Hitchens

Producer: Philip Wilding

Editor: Chelsey Moore

Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini

Executive Producer: Jamie East

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On this week’s episode, Peter, and Sarah struggle to think of Camilla as Queen but for quite different reasons, though Sarah did very much enjoy her cosy supper at Clarence House, not least the excellent wallpaper and furnishings.

While both bemoan the sinking state of Britain’s submarine fleet, and Peter recalls the time it was leaked that we once leased our missiles from the US much to the fury of then PM Margaret Thatcher.

Elsewhere, yet another listener has been dreaming of Peter, Peter and traffic lights, and we finally find out what car he drives, please do stay tuned for that.

On our reading, watch and listening list this week: 

·      The Horse and His Boy – C.S. Lewis

·      Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good – James Davies

·      No Room for Mistakes: British and Allied Submarine Warfare, 1939-1940 – Geirr Haarr

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Presenters: Sarah Vine & Peter Hitchens

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Editor: Chelsey Moore

Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini

Executive Producer: Jamie East

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On this week’s episode, Peter and Sarah discuss vexillology, or flags for the layman. Not least how Peter was once saved by flying a rather tattered Union Jack while attempting to flee Somalia.

While Sarah pores over our copious emails to mull over the suggestion from a listener that we take illegal migrants and put them in the army or at least to work.

Elsewhere, someone’s been dreaming lucid dreams about Peter and our hosts bemoan the state of our ever-failing education system. 

On our reading, watch and listening list this week: 

·      Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of Flags – Tim Marshall

·      Jabberwocky – Lewis Carroll

·      Education in Britain: 1944 to the Present, 2nd Edition – Ken Jones

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Presenters: Sarah Vine & Peter Hitchens

Producer: Philip Wilding

Editor: Chelsey Moore

Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini

Executive Producer: Jamie East

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