Best UK Current Affairs Podcasts (2020)
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Best UK Current Affairs podcasts we could find (updated April 2020)
Best UK Current Affairs podcasts we could find
Updated April 2020
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Intelligence Squared is the world’s leading forum for debate and intelligent discussion. Live and online we take you to the heart of the issues that matter, in the company of some of the world’s sharpest minds and most exciting orators. Join the debate at www.intelligencesquared.com and download our weekly podcasts every Tuesday and Friday.
 
Time-poor? Never get around to watching or reading the news? Aware you’re not quite as on top of what’s happening in the world as you should be? Well, The Daily News In Brief from SheerLuxe.com is the weekly podcast bringing you the scoop on the breaking news and current affairs you need to know. Subscribe, keep listening and stay informed. You can also get your daily dose of news sent straight to your inbox each morning by signing up to The Daily News In Brief newsletter here
 
The podcast version of a documentary & interview series on war and inequality from the heart of Empire hosted by Abby Martin. Empire Files is donor-funded, independent and add free. Help keep us going by becoming a patron at www.patreon.com/empirefiles. Follow: @EmpireFiles and @AbbyMartin Like: www.facebook.com/TheEmpireFiles
 
Hi. I’m Paul Adamson, the founder and editor of E!Sharp, an online magazine about the European Union and its place in the world. These podcasts are me “in conversation with” personalities that I think have interesting things to say and who may not be known to wider audiences. The conversations are deliberately informal and are designed to be illuminating as well as, hopefully, entertaining.
 
Backchat is RTHK Radio 3's current affairs programme with expert panels and listener participation. It airs every weekday from 8.30am-9.30am. Have your say by calling us on 233 88 266, Backchat's Facebook , or send us a message at backchat@rthk.hk Catch it live: Monday to Friday 8.30am - 9.30am (*except holidays) Podcast: Daily update and available after its broadcast.
 
An independent "free-for-all" press in Northeast Kansas. Infamous among conservatives in the flyover zone for hoisting their credo on a spike. Famous among progressives for foisting their foibles into the sunlight. Blogging on three blogs almost daily, three years and over 1000 shows on blogtalkradio, Radio Free Kansas has become a radical voice from the barnyard for political mud wrestling. "Hillbilly Anarchist", "Homegrown Hippie" and/or "Left-wing Libertarian" call us what you will. We lo ...
 
Newsnet.scot's regular podcast is a popular feature of Scottish political debate. reflecting the views of the pro-independence audience, but also tackling UK and international issues. Chaired by former broadcaster Derek Bateman and guests, it aims to encourage discussion of politics without the confrontational tone favoured by today political programmes.
 
From nine to noon every weekday, Kathryn Ryan talks to the people driving the news - in New Zealand and around the world. Delve beneath the headlines to find out the real story, listen to Nine to Noon's expert commentators and reviewers and catch up with the latest lifestyle trends on this award-winning programme.
 
Chris A. has recently immigrated (or *brexited) from the UK to Norway and finds herself in the process of acquiring a new language and culture. Knut M. is a native Norwegian who never has a good answer to the question "where're you from"? In this podcast they investigate all the minor differences that may bring their worlds closer together.
 
Summer-ized Sessions is a renowned event brand in London, which has been running hedonistic house music events for six consecutive years. From humble beginnings as a mix-CD, through weekly radio, to its current incarnation as one of the freshest, most decadent club nights in town, this is a brand that attracts some of the biggest names in Underground House, Tech-house, and Techno. Coming off the back of their first tour in 2019 - landing at premier spots across the UK such as Mint Warehouse ...
 
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Luis Encinas is a nurse and Médecins Sans Frontières coordinator. He has treated patients in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, in Sierra Leone as Ebola took hold, and now in Spain, battling Covid-19. He and the Guardian’s Madrid correspondent, Sam Jones, describe how the virus has transformed Spain. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.c…
 
Arts correspondent Nina Tonga looks at how a sector goal to bring art to the people has unexpectedly been realised, thanks to Covid-19. She joins Kathryn to talk about how different galleries and museums have got involved - from #MuseumChallenge, where people have been recreating works at home, to 'virtual walks' through galleries and opera watched…
 
Adventure cyclist Steve Halligan is hunkering down between ultra distance races and bike-packing expeditions. He not long since completed his 3rd Tour Aotearoa, the 3,000 km cycle race from Cape Reinga to Bluff. With thirteen different start points, it's hard to pick an outright winner at the finish line of this year's Tour Aotearoa, but Steve feat…
 
Australia correspondent Karen Middleton joins Kathryn to talk about how Australia's chief medical officer Dr Brendan Murphy has retracted comments he made to New Zealand's parliamentary committee about a cluster of cases stemming from "an illegal party" as it was unconfirmed. The Labor opposition party and unions want a billion-dollar loan to save …
 
Dr Paul Wood spent nearly 11 years in prison for a murder he committed in when he was 19. During his time inside he attained a Bachelors degree, a masters in Psychology and was two years into his PhD which he finished in 2011. These days he is a motivational speaker, coach and mentor. He says at the moment he's talking a lot about what he learned f…
 
Does the government's latest rescue package provide enough relief, stimulus and certainty for struggling businesses? Under the new measures small and medium-sized enterprises will get 3 billion-dollars worth of tax breaks to help them survive the COVID-19 pandemic and there will also be law changes to ease pressure on firms struggling to pay commer…
 
Hype has a dark side. It can mislead, distract and blinker us from seeing what is actually going on. In this episode we are joined by Gemma Milne, tech journalist and author of Smoke and Mirrors: How Hype Obscures the Future and How to See Past It, in conversation with Carl Miller of the think tank Demos. For information regarding your data privacy…
 
Contact us with donations, comments, letters at: Dave Lindorff/TCBH P. O. Box 846 Amber, PA 19002 This Can't Be Happening See: http://thiscantbehappening.net/ (TCBH) is a six-time Project Censored award-winning online news writer collective. From their web site: "Our goal is to give you the stories you aren’t getting from the corporate media or to …
 
Every year we produce over 2 billion tonnes of solid waste worldwide. Most of it ends up in dumps or landfills, or is thrown into the oceans, or is burned. Only a small fraction is ever recycled. But are there other, more creative uses for all that rubbish? To try and find some answers, BBC Mundo reporter Lucia Blasco visits Paraguay to meet the in…
 
The PSNI in Carrickfergus have instructed the public "exercise begins and ends at your front door". The PSNI have also said a citizen is not allowed to get into their car and drive somewhere for exercise. If this happens, they say " this will not be tolerated no matter what your excuse, we will ask you to return home immediately." Now - we all have…
 
Ireland already had a housing and homelessness emergency before the Covid-19 pandemic. While the emergency response has received near universal acclaim we'd seen the number of people still sleeping on our streets still very high. So we caught up with Independent Dublin City Councillor and CEO of Inner City Helping Homelessness, Anthony Flynn, to di…
 
In February, the UK and Germany were taking a similar approach to testing for coronavirus. But over the subsequent weeks, the two countries began to go in very different directions. Guardian health editor Sarah Boseley and Berlin bureau chief Philip Oltermann look at what happened next. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/inf…
 
While coping with the lockdown might have you reaching for the wine - or something stronger - George Seber would caution against that. He's an Emeritus Professor of Statistics at Auckland University and has crunched the numbers on the harm caused by the $4b New Zealanders spend on alcohol each year. His book, co-authored with his friend Dr Graeme W…
 
It's a crucial week, as the government weighs a shift to level three, Treasury estimates the damage of Covid-19 on the economy, and actual unemployment figures are released. Matthew Hooton and Stephen Mills discuss what will this might mean for the election date. Matthew Hooton is an Auckland based consultant and lobbyist. Stephen Mills is the exec…
 
Pulitzer-prize winning American author Anne Tyler speaks with Kathryn Ryan about her 23rd book Red Head at the Side of the Road. Anne won the Pulitzer prize for Breathing Lessons in 1989, The Accidental Tourist was adapted into an acclaimed movie, and she has sold over ten million books around the world. Her newest novel is everything you would exp…
 
Ron Elving talks to Kathryn about the big issues in the US, including business being eager to reopen and the medical world highly reluctant. And President Trump is fueling speculation over the future of public health advisor, Dr Anthony Fauci who said in a CNN interview more could have been done to prevent the spread of coronavirus.…
 
The government's independent climate change advisor is urging the government to stimulate the economy post-pandemic in a way that keeps climate change progress happening. The Government is looking to fund large "shovel-ready" infrastructure projects to boost the economy after the lockdown. Dr Rod Carr, chair of the Climate Change Commission and for…
 
The Treasury has just released seven scenarios looking at how the economy is faring - and could fare - depending on how long the country stays at Level 4 lockdown. At best, the Treasury says unemployment can be kept below 10%, and return to 5% next year with additional government support. At worst - with more time required in Level Four - it says u…
 
Term two of the school year is set to start tomorrow, looking vastly different to term one. Teachers will be delivering lessons to students online, while two new educational TV channels will begin broadcasting in English and MÄ�ori as part of a $88m package to support remote learning. Laptops and modems are being delivered this week to the estimate…
 
On this edition of the Sky News Daily podcast with Dermot Murnaghan, we examine the impact of measures being taken as the lockdown looks unlikely to end this week. We are joined by our political correspondent Tom Rayner, Ash Sarkar from Novara Media and the author Timandra Harkness - plus Mike Adams from the Royal College of Nursing discusses Boris…
 
As part of our ongoing look into the impacts of Covid-19 and our #NoGoingBack series we chatted with infectious diseases specialist and internal medicine physician, Dr Clíona Ní Cheallaigh. Clíona explains how those already most vulnerable in our society are the worst impacted by a pandemic like coronavirus. She explains how her research and work i…
 
Fifteen years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is facing another lethal storm. The city on Louisiana’s coast has become one of the worst-hit areas in the US. Some have blamed the high death toll on the decision to allow the annual Mardi Gras parade to go ahead. But musician and actor Harry Shearer, famous, among other things for voicing charact…
 
We are delighted to be joined by BBC World Service journalist, Ellis Palmer, as part of our series looking at the good things that could possibly come from the Covid-19 pandemic. We discuss how our society, that already had a long way to go to level the playing field for disabled people, needs to react to the new normal.Ellis speaks brilliantly on …
 
Michael Caddell, executive producer P. O. Box 14, Valley Falls, KS 66088 Email: bluebarnnewscentral@gmail.com Twitter: @RadioFreeKansas Studio Technician Tristan Caddell Posting at: http://fightincockflyer.blogspot.com/ Pay Pal Tip Jar, click here: https://www.paypal.me/RadioFreeKansas Hosted by Tony Gosling and "Old Labour" Martin Summers the "Fri…
 
Fifteen years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is facing another lethal storm. The city on Louisiana’s coast has become one of the worst-hit areas in the US. Some have blamed the high death toll on the decision to allow the annual Mardi Gras parade to go ahead. But musician and actor Harry Shearer, famous, among other things for voicing charact…
 
Alan Dein connects with people around the world trying to find moments of calm during the coronavirus pandemic.He speaks to Jens, the captain of a container ship in the middle of the Indian Ocean who is unsure when he may be able to get his crew back home, and Sujatha, an 85-year-old in India who is philosophical about being confined to her home in…
 
The coronavirus pandemic threatens to remake the world's political systems. But how exactly? In the third in a new series of interactive events from Intelligence Squared - Coronavirus: Your Questions Answered - we brought together a panel of leading commentators in a free live online event to examine how the crisis will affect politics around the w…
 
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