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Best of the Spectator is hosted by The Spectator. The show has published more than 1,000 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "The Edition: Can Macron still control France? with Louis Sarkozy & Loyd Grossman" (23 October 2026, 45 minutes), "Reality Check: Andy Haldane on Burnham, Badenoch & the Budget" (22 October 2026, 43 minutes), and "Americano: Trump’s decade of power, what went wrong?" (20 October 2026, 31 minutes).
Best of the Spectator publishes roughly daily, with episodes averaging 35 minutes across more than 1,000 episodes.
Booking probability for Best of the Spectator is 50%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Best of the Spectator requires a Pod Score of 92 or higher. Best of the Spectator's contact route on record: verified email.
The Spectator hosts Best of the Spectator, a news show with more than 1,000 episodes published.
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For this week’s Edition , Lara Prendergast is joined by the Spectator ’s economics editor Michael Simmons, writer Louis Sarkozy and broadcaster Sir Loyd Grossman. This week: is France heading for revolution? As protests...
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Andy Burnham’s first Budget as Prime Minister is approaching – but higher borrowing costs have already made the sums more difficult. Former Bank of England chief economist Andy Haldane joins Michael Simmons to warn that...
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Freddy Gray speaks with Spectator columnist Christopher Caldwell about the ten-year legacy of Donald Trump since his 2016 election victory, assessing his second administration's high-water marks alongside the recent...
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On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Jacob Rees-Mogg talks all things Tory Conference and Tucker Carlson; Lara Brown explores the growing rebellion against screens in schools; Matthew Parris reflects on what will survive...
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Pope Leo XIV is recovering in hospital after undergoing surgery for lung cancer, with doctors removing the lower lobe of his right lung. The Vatican says his recovery is progressing normally, but questions remain over...
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For this week’s Edition , William Moore is joined by the Spectator ’s commissioning editor Lara Brown, Financial Times columnist and peer Camilla Cavendish and broadcaster and former Labour MP Gloria De Piero. This...
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Is Britain’s welfare state still a safety net or has it become a pipeline for long-term dependency? Almost one in ten six-year-olds are now categorised as disabled through the benefits system and, on current trends...
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Michael Gove is joined by historian Simon Schama to discuss the resurgence of antisemitism in Britain, why many British Jews increasingly feel unsafe, and what history can teach us about the war in Gaza. Simon argues...
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For this week’s Book Club , Sam Leith, the Spectator ’s literary editor, is joined by Shaun Bythell, proprietor of The Book Shop in Wigtown, Scotland, and author of The Diary of a Bookseller series, to discuss the...
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Michael Gove is joined by shadow justice secretary Nick Timothy, live at Conservative party conference in Birmingham, to discuss prisons, policing and the fight against Islamist extremism. Nick reflects on swapping life...
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On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Prue Leith covers her foray into fashion and her life post-Bake Off; John Connolly explores Manchester's close links with the UAE; Flora Watkins asks whatever happened to the midlife...
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Franz Liszt is remembered as one of the great showmen of the 19th century: a dazzling virtuoso, breaker of pianos and notorious womaniser who inspired a frenzy among his admirers. But a profound Catholic faith ran...
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In this week’s Book Club podcast, Sam Leith is joined by author Matthew Sweet to discuss his new biography, The Great Dictator , about the bestselling novelist Barbara Cartland. They explore the extraordinary life...
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On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: James Heale reflects on Labour party conference; Angus Colwell goes on the hunt for Britain’s wokest bar; Lisa Haseldine reveals what she has been stockpiling; and Chas Newkey-Burden...
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James Heale, Tim Shipman and Tali Fraser record live from Conservative Party conference in Birmingham. As we pass the two year mark of Kemi Badenoch's leadership of the Tory Party, the panel discuss whether she has done...
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Michael Gove is joined by novelist and former Conservative Party deputy chairman Jeffrey Archer to discuss his final novel, Adam and Eve, and a life spent close to the centre of British politics. Jeffrey explains how...
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James Heale is joined by Tim Shipman and Liam Halligan, Telegraph columnist and the new director of the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS), to look ahead to Conservative party conference, which kicks off today. Kemi...
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Michael Simmons is joined live at Labour conference by TUC general secretary Paul Nowak to discuss the state of Britain’s labour market. Are higher wages and stronger employment rights making it harder to hire, or are...
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For this week’s Edition , Lara Prendergast is joined by the Spectator ’s political editor Tim Shipman, restaurant critic Angus Colwell and Telegraph associate editor Poppy Coburn. This week: does the country want Kemi...
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In this week’s Book Club podcast, Sam Leith is joined by psychologist and linguist Steven Pinker to discuss his new book, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows… Pinker explores the powerful idea of ‘common knowledge’...
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