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Best of the Spectator

Best of the Spectator

The Spectator

2,620 episodesEN

Show overview

Best of the Spectator has been publishing since 2016, and across the 10 years since has built a catalogue of 2,620 episodes. That works out to over 1400 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a near-daily cadence.

Episodes typically run twenty to thirty-five minutes — most land between 25 min and 39 min — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. It is catalogued as a EN-language News show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed yesterday, with 136 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2025, with 398 episodes published. Published by The Spectator.

Episodes
2,620
Running
2016–2026 · 10y
Median length
32 min
Cadence
Near-daily

From the publisher

Home to the Spectator's best podcasts on everything from politics to religion, literature to food and drink, and more. A new podcast every day from writers worth listening to. <hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

Quite right!: Starmer’s last stand

May 12, 202628 min

Americano: what's going on with the Kennedy Center?

May 11, 202620 min

Spectator Out Loud: Lisa Haseldine, Roya Nikkah & Lionel Shriver

May 11, 202625 min

Quite right!: how to stage a leadership coup

May 9, 202621 min

Coffee House Shots: how 'the progressives' killed Labour – Maurice Glasman

May 9, 202610 min

The Edition: will Labour learn the wrong lessons from the locals?

May 7, 202633 min

The Book Club: The Poems of Sylvia Plath

May 7, 202639 min

Quite right!: how antisemitism became a 'national emergency'

May 5, 202622 min

LIVE: Conservatives vs Reform debate

May 4, 202628 min

Spectator Out Loud: Martin Vander Weyer, Freddy Gray & Arabella Byrne

May 3, 202619 min

Reality check: why Polanski is wrong about drug legalisation

May 2, 202616 min

Americano: how the Declaration of Independence made America

May 1, 202651 min

The Edition: Britain’s fraying social contract – and what comes after Starmer?

Apr 30, 202643 min

The Book Club: How to Kill a Language

Apr 29, 202641 min

Quite right!: Katie Lam interview

Apr 28, 202656 min

Coffee House Shots: Morgan McSweeney faces the music

Apr 28, 202617 min

Spectator Out Loud: Max Jeffery, Peter James, Zoe Strimpel and Graeme Thomson

Apr 26, 202623 min

Holy Smoke: is Pope Benedict’s Ordinariate for ex-Anglicans finally going to realise its potential?

Apr 25, 202630 min

Coffee House Shots: is this the end of Labour’s Wales?

Apr 25, 202613 min

The Edition: ‘Keir Starmer has become Boris Johnson!’

Apr 23, 202640 min