Politics on the Couch

47 Episodes

1. 'The ideological brain' – are some people hard-wired for radicalisation?

   Published: 3/19/2025
2. Red Wall, Blue Wall, Grey Area - a conversation about voter volatility with Professor Paula Surridge

   Published: 3/5/2025
3. 'System Fail' - a conversation with Sam Freedman about the way Britain's broken politics can suffocate even the best intentions.

   Published: 8/22/2024
4. ‘The gen Z revolution’ - how a student protest toppled a corrupt and violent government

   Published: 8/9/2024
5. Is this what hope feels like? Rafael Behr's reflections on Labour's 2024 victory

   Published: 7/22/2024
6. Going Ape - a conversation about evolution, morality and political cooperation

   Published: 5/27/2024
7. Doom audit - a conversation with Jonathan Freedland about America, Israel, liberal angst and the unravelling West

   Published: 4/21/2024
8. 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
9. 'Bonus Couch Chat'

   Published: 9/29/2023
10. 'Beyond the Red Wall'

    Published: 7/20/2023
11. 'Beyond parody' - a conversation with Rob Hutton about political journalism and its complex relationship with power

    Published: 7/7/2023
12. 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
13. Kindness - a conversation about political empathy, its power and its limits, with Claudia Hammond

    Published: 5/4/2023
14. Contrarianism, social media and the future of culture wars - a conversation with Atlantic writer Helen Lewis

    Published: 3/30/2023
15. Populism, democracy and the parliamentary battle over Brexit

    Published: 3/21/2023
16. Party People - a stroll around the grassroots of democracy

    Published: 3/14/2023
17. The French Connection - myth and misunderstanding across the Channel

    Published: 3/8/2023
18. 'The world's a stage' - politics and storytelling with James Graham

    Published: 3/4/2023
19. Procrastination - the politics of putting off hard choices and why it's so bad for democracy

    Published: 2/22/2023
20. 'Putinophilia' - how America's radical right fell for a Kremlin strongman, a conversation with Anne Applebaum

    Published: 2/14/2023