The Lock In with Jeremy Paxman

By James BraySociety & Culture

The Lock In with Jeremy Paxman episodes

July 07, 2021 Lord Martin Rees
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.
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43 min
June 30, 2021 Toby Young
Jeremy sits down with Toby Young, founder of the Free Speech Union, to discuss cancel culture, free speech, etc.
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44 min
June 23, 2021 Amartya Sen
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.
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23 min
June 16, 2021 Andy Burnham
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.
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42 min
June 09, 2021 Jed Mercurio
Jeremy sits down with Jed Mercurio, writer of Line of Duty and other hit dramas, to talk TV, police, conspiracies, and writing.
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34 min
June 02, 2021 Michael Burleigh
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.
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38 min
May 26, 2021 Salman Rushdie
Jeremy sits down with Salman Rushdie, celebrated novelist.
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34 min
May 19, 2021 Enric Sala
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.
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31 min
May 12, 2021 Andrew Hunter Murray
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.
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27 min
May 05, 2021 Alastair Campbell
Jeremy sits down with former Downing Street head of communications Alastair Campbell, the real-life Malcolm Tucker and most prolific diarist since Samuel Pepys.
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40 min

About The Lock In with Jeremy Paxman

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Jeremy Paxman, of Newsnight and University Challenge fame, has decided there must be more to life than cudgelling politicians and students on TV. ‘The Lock In’ is, as he puts it, “an excuse for me to…