On the Biteback podcast today is Labour peer, author and academic Andrew Adonis! We chat about his new book Ernest Bevin: Labour's Churchill, that historic 1945 election and who today's Bevin might be...

Music

Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3788-funkorama

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This week we welcome the authors of Last Rights, Sarah Wootton and Lloyd Riley, to talk about assisted dying, hospice care and why getting a bill through Parliament is a lot more difficult than you might expect...

Music

Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3788-funkorama

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This week, we're chatting to barrister and blogger Colin Yeo about the UK immigration system! Find out more about the gaping flaws in how we welcome people to the UK, why we don't see immigration as much in the news anymore and what the government can do to fix things.

Colin Yeo's book Welcome to Britain is out on 29 June: find out more by clicking the link below.

https://www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/welcome-to-britain

Music

Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3788-funkorama

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

On the day of publication for his new book Unfair Game, Lord Ashcroft talks to Biteback Chats Books about South Africa's illegal lion trade, his undercover operations and what governments around the world can do stop the exploitation of lions.

Music

Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3788-funkorama

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Football journalist Matt Spiro joins us in the virtual Biteback studio to talk about the rise and fall of the French national team, Les Bleus, to celebrate the release of his new book, Sacré Bleu.

Music

Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3788-funkorama

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Alongside his colleague James Roberts, Martyn Whittock is the author of Trump and the Puritans, which examined America's puritanical legacy and that legacy's role in the rise of Donald Trump. Here, Martyn examines Trump's Presidency in the age of coronavirus and investigates just how much his policy is influenced by the evangelical right.

Music

Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3788-funkorama

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Sit down with the author of our latest book, Kensington Palace, and listen to Tom Quinn talk about everything from sweet-talking ex-servants to the more eccentric inhabitants of this iconic building...

Music

Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3788-funkorama

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

As the Biteback Book Festival gets political, we ask political expert and lobbyist Iain Anderson his opinion on Brexit, the coronavirus and the government's response to both. 

Music

Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3788-funkorama

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

We interview former MP and Home Secretary Jacqui Smith for the Biteback Book Festival! Discover what Jacqui's been doing in isolation, what inspired her to become involved in politics and who her inspiration is... 

Music

Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3788-funkorama

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Jacqui Smith gives a reading of one of her favourite biographies from her and Iain Dale's book The Honourable Ladies: Volume One: that of Betty Boothroyd, written by Nus Ghani. Sit back and relax!

Music

Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3788-funkorama

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/