UnHerd Radio

UnHerd Radio episodes:

• 06.22.2020

  Matthew Crawford: the dangers of Safetyism

  Freddie Sayers speaks to Matthew Crawford, a motorcycle mechanic turned philosopher with a unique perspective on the current moment. Instead of talking in terms of partisan politics, he talks in terms of lived experience and what a good life feels...

  
• 06.07.2020

  Ross Douthat: are the BLM protests a religious movement?

  Freddie Sayers talks to New York Times columnist Ross Douthat about his new book The Decadent Society, the religious aspect of antiracism protests, Obama and Trump, and whether lockdowns are a symptom of — or cure for — the decadent...

  
• 12.21.2018

  The importance of place

  Host Ayesha Hazarika is joined by Douglas Alexander, chair of Unicef UK and former Labour Party cabinet minister, and Sunder Katwala, Director of British Future think tank, to discuss their under-reported stories of the week. Douglas discussed the importance of belonging...

  
• 12.07.2018

  Why is UKIP embracing the YouTube Right?

  Host Ayesha Hazarika is joined by comedian Matt Forde, and journalist Gavin Haynes, to discuss their under-reported stories of the week. Matt highlighted the voluntary ban on betting ads during sporting events, while Gavin talked about the ongoing disintegration of UKIP. The...

  
• 12.04.2018

  NEW UnHerd Podcast: Confessions with Giles Fraser - Trailer

  Subscribe to make sure you don't miss UnHerd's new podcast series featuring columnist Giles Fraser in which he talks to distinguished guests about how their beliefs shape who they are. The first three episodes are out now. Search for 'UnHerd Confessions'...

  
• 11.26.2018

  We're not the only ones having problems with the EU

  Ayesha Hazarika is joined by Novara Media Editor Ash Sarkar, and Paul Embery, trade union official and UnHerd columnist, to discuss their under-reported stories of the week. Ash brought up the EU potentially fining Italy for setting an illegal budget, while...

  
• 11.12.2018

  The new men's rights activists

  Ayesha Hazarika is joined by journalist Julie Bindel, and Trevor Phillips, former chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, to discuss their under-reported stories of the week. Julie raised the case of a transgender woman in Canada who has filed...

  
• 10.22.2018

  Is technology making us lonely?

  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, that revealed 22% of...

  
• 10.15.2018

  The Italian village that dared defy Salvini

  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 warehouse workers, while...

  
• 09.21.2018

  Can an algorithm predict child abuse?

  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 and Zehra raised the...

  
• 09.17.2018

  Giles Fraser in conversation with Neil MacGregor

  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...

  
• 09.13.2018

  How social media is making us all fascist

  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 highlights how social media is making...

  
• 09.07.2018

  The myth of white genocide

  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...

  
• 09.03.2018

  It's time to talk about taxing wealth

  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...

  
• 08.20.2018

  Are we governed by a bluffocracy?

  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 elite bunch...

  
• 08.15.2018

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

  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 are witnessing, or...

  
• 07.27.2018

  The future of the family

  The future of the family by UnHerd

  
• 07.19.2018

  Will AI kill us all?

  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 posed by...

  
• 07.13.2018

  Dead-end jobs and forgotten towns

  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 small-town pride'. The documentary looks...

  
• 07.06.2018

  What does the World Cup squad say about modern England?

  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 England. Phillip...

  
• 06.28.2018

  Is Mexico about to elect its own Trump?

  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 security could put the populist...

  
• 06.21.2018

  The real winners of the Singapore summit

  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 get tired of Macron, where...

  
• 06.15.2018

  Russia scores a goal on energy policy

  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; Liam draws attention to the progress of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline...

  
• 06.08.2018

  Should we pardon drug users?

  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...

  
• 05.31.2018

  Is capitalism making us less moral?

  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 between character and prosperity, and asks...

  
• 05.25.2018

  How to save the high street

  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 it...

  
• 05.18.2018

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

  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 and why the...

  
• 05.11.2018

  The Chinese trade challenge

  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 week. Juliet...

  
• 05.04.2018

  Who speaks for unheard London?

  Who speaks for unheard London? by UnHerd

  
• 04.27.2018

  Could Nicaragua become the next Venezuela?

  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.  James's...

  
• 04.19.2018

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

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

  
• 04.13.2018

  #22 – Gambling, anti semitism and BBC bias

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

  
• 04.06.2018

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

  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, Benjamin Netanyahu's swift renege on...

  
• 03.29.2018

  #20 Echo chambers and emigration

  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 emigration....

  
• 03.23.2018

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

  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 include, the...

  
• 03.16.2018

  #18 - Is Corbyn being too soft on Russia?

  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 Muslim...

  
• 03.08.2018

  #17 - The trouble with International Women’s Day

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

  
• 03.02.2018

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

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

  
• 02.22.2018

  #15 - There are reasons Amazon is cheap…

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

  
• 02.08.2018

  #14 - The state of feminism

  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.

  
• 02.01.2018

  #13 - The seven ills of capitalism

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

  
• 01.26.2018

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

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

  
• 01.18.2018

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

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

  
• 12.18.2017

  #10 - Solutions to the causes of Brexit and Trump

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

  
• 12.13.2017

  UnHerd weekly podcast - Ep9 with Kate Andrews and Lord Falconer

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

  
• 12.07.2017

  UnHerd weekly podcast - Ep8 with James Bloodworth and Edward Davies

  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.

  
• 12.01.2017

  UnHerd weekly podcast - Ep7 with Tim Farron

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

  
• 11.09.2017

  UnHerd weekly podcast - Ep6 with Douglas Murray

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

  
• 11.02.2017

  UnHerd weekly podcast - Ep5 with Jimmy Burns

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

  
• 10.26.2017

  UnHerd weekly podcast - Ep4 with Nigel Cameron

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