Over The Top Under The Radar

By Carys AfokoNews

Over The Top Under The Radar episodes

April 11, 2025 Can you handle the truth?
In this week's episode of Over The Top, Under The Radar, Gary and Carys discuss free trade, Prince Harry, private equity regulation, and the Windrush scandal.

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Over The Top Under The Radar is made by the production team of Andrew Spence, Bernard Achampong, Emma Stephens, Pat Younge and Sarah Myles
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43 min
April 04, 2025 Musk, Le Pen and Starmer's Labour: Is Justice really blind?
In this week's episode of Over The Top, Under The Radar, Carys and Gary discuss Elon Musk, Marine Le Pen, the British judiciary, and how we're failing our kids with special educational needs and disabilities

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Over The Top Under The Radar is made by the production team of Andrew Spence, Bernard Achampong, Emma Stephens, Pat Younge and Sarah Myles
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42 min
March 28, 2025 Labour Punches Down… again!
In this week's episode of Over The Top, Under The Radar, Carys and Gary discuss the Labour’s austerity, Kemi’s lies, MAGA emojis and Palestinian rights.

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Over The Top Under The Radar is made by the production team of Andrew Spence, Bernard Achampong, Emma Stephens, Pat Younge and Emma Corsham
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44 min
March 21, 2025 The Rest Is White People - Labour, Democrats, Cubans and Potholes.
In this week's episode of Over The Top, Under The Radar, Carys and Gary discuss the left opposition in both America and Britain, Cuban doctors in the Caribbean, and potholes.

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Over The Top Under The Radar is made by the production team of Andrew Spence, Bernard Achampong, Emma Stephens, Pat Younge and Sarah Myles
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39 min
March 14, 2025 Friends and Benefits
In this week's episode of Over The Top, Under The Radar, Carys and Gary discuss the government's slashing of disability benefits, the drama at Reform UK, the persecution of a Palestinian student in America, and Thames Water's finances (with some chat about poo).

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Over The Top Under The Radar is made by the production team of Andrew Spence, Bernard Achampong, Emma Stephens, Pat Younge and Sarah Myles
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37 min
March 07, 2025 War or Peace: Ukraine, Gaza and Trump.
In this week's episode of Over The Top, Under The Radar, Gary and Carys discuss settler violence on the West Bank, Trump's address to the joint houses of Congress, MPs' financial interests and peace- whether it's in the Middle East or the Ukraine, what kind of peace are we talking about? And who does it favour?

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Over The Top Under The Radar is made by the production team of Andrew Spence, Bernard Achampong, Emma Stephens, Pat Younge and Sarah Myles
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41 min
February 28, 2025 Who pays the price of free speech, Musk's eggs, aid cuts and Black women's safety?
In this week's episode of Over The Top, Under The Radar, Carys and Gary discuss the price of eggs in America and what it has to do with the Trump administration, William Hague becoming Chancellor of Oxford University, Keir Starmer's decision to increase the defence budget at the expense of aid, and the allegations against Tim Westwood.

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Over The Top Under The Radar is made by the production team of Andrew Spence, Bernard Achampong, Emma Stephens, Pat Younge and Sarah Myles
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38 min
February 21, 2025 Trump, Starmer and Vance: A toxic relationship?
On this week's episode of Over the Top, Under the Radar, Gary is joined by guest co-host Ayeisha Thomas-Smith. They discuss discuss JD Vance's spicy speech at the Munich conference, the German anti-fascist fightback, why left-wing activists are apparently not playing nice, and Britain's special relationship with the US. Are they really that into us?

You can also find Ayeisha on the New Economics Foundation podcast.

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Over The Top Under The Radar is made by the production team of Andrew Spence, Bernard Achampong, Emma Stephens, Pat Younge and Sarah Myles
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40 min
February 14, 2025 Why is Labour failing to create jobs, protect children and manage Trump?
On this week's episode of Over the Top, Under the Radar, Gary is joined by guest co-host Faiza Shaheen. They discuss the impact of Trump's flurry of executive orders on our perception of politics, Morgan McSweeney, the mental health crisis among young people, new job data, and, of course, K-Dramas.

Thanks to Young Minds, Mind and Scottish Action for Mental Health for their research support on this episode.

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Over The Top Under The Radar is made by the production team of Andrew Spence, Bernard Achampong, Emma Stephens, Pat Younge and Sarah Myles
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39 min
February 07, 2025 In Conversation with Rachel Shabi
In this episode, Carys sits down with Rachel Shabi to discuss antisemitism, Jewish experiences and her new book Off-White: The Truth About Antisemitism.

Rachel Shabi is a journalist and broadcaster whose work has appeared in the Guardian, the New York Times, Independent, The Times and the New York Review of Books, among other papers and journals. Her previous book, Not the Enemy: Israel’s Jews from Arab Lands, received a US National Jewish Book award.

Buy Rachel's new book Off-White: The Truth About Antisemitism HERE

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Over The Top Under The Radar is made by the production team of Andrew Spence, Bernard Achampong, Emma Stephens, Pat Younge and Sarah Myles
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45 min

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