Politics on the Couch
A podcast by Larchmont Productions
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40 Episodes
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Moving the needle - Tom Gray of Gomez on swapping the recording studio for the campaign trail, and what being in a band teaches you about politics.
Published: 12/5/2023 -
'Bonus Couch Chat'
Published: 9/29/2023 -
'Beyond the Red Wall'
Published: 7/20/2023 -
'Beyond parody' - a conversation with Rob Hutton about political journalism and its complex relationship with power
Published: 7/7/2023 -
Trapped! Democracy's struggle to cope with modern life and what we can do to help – a conversation with Professor Ben Ansell.
Published: 5/17/2023 -
Kindness - a conversation about political empathy, its power and its limits, with Claudia Hammond
Published: 5/4/2023 -
Contrarianism, social media and the future of culture wars - a conversation with Atlantic writer Helen Lewis
Published: 3/30/2023 -
Populism, democracy and the parliamentary battle over Brexit
Published: 3/21/2023 -
Party People - a stroll around the grassroots of democracy
Published: 3/14/2023 -
The French Connection - myth and misunderstanding across the Channel
Published: 3/8/2023 -
'The world's a stage' - politics and storytelling with James Graham
Published: 3/4/2023 -
Procrastination - the politics of putting off hard choices and why it's so bad for democracy
Published: 2/22/2023 -
'Putinophilia' - how America's radical right fell for a Kremlin strongman, a conversation with Anne Applebaum
Published: 2/14/2023 -
'Bregret' - how is Britain coping with a Brexit that nobody loves?
Published: 2/7/2023 -
Consciousness - a deep dive into the politics of brain science with Anil Seth
Published: 12/22/2022 -
The authoritarian personality - why some voters feel drawn to populism and how to lure them away
Published: 7/14/2022 -
The authenticity gap - can Labour seize the post-Boris moment? (recorded the day he resigned)
Published: 7/7/2022 -
The Megacrisis - how the world's problems piled up - a conversation with Helen Thompson
Published: 5/5/2022 -
Is Democracy Rational? A conversation with Steven Pinker
Published: 10/29/2021 -
Order and chaos - why the left keeps losing
Published: 7/30/2021
Politics on the Couch looks at the way our minds respond to politics and the way politicians mess with our minds. In each episode award-winning political columnist Rafael Behr is joined by a distinguished expert drawn from the world of politics, psychology or philosophy. The show will appeal to any listener interested in taking a deep dive into how psychology drives everyone's political thought and behaviour.For more information about host Rafael Behr - www.rafaelbehr.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.