Politics on the Couch

41 Episodes

1. Doom audit - a conversation with Jonathan Freedland about America, Israel, liberal angst and the unravelling West

   Published: 4/21/2024
2. 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
3. 'Bonus Couch Chat'

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

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

   Published: 7/7/2023
6. 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
7. Kindness - a conversation about political empathy, its power and its limits, with Claudia Hammond

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 2/14/2023
15. 'Bregret' - how is Britain coping with a Brexit that nobody loves?

    Published: 2/7/2023
16. Consciousness - a deep dive into the politics of brain science with Anil Seth

    Published: 12/22/2022
17. The authoritarian personality - why some voters feel drawn to populism and how to lure them away

    Published: 7/14/2022
18. The authenticity gap - can Labour seize the post-Boris moment? (recorded the day he resigned)

    Published: 7/7/2022
19. The Megacrisis - how the world's problems piled up - a conversation with Helen Thompson

    Published: 5/5/2022
20. Is Democracy Rational? A conversation with Steven Pinker

    Published: 10/29/2021