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Culture Wars – with Andrew Doyle

Culture Wars – with Andrew Doyle

Culture Wars – with Andrew Doyle

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Show overview

Culture Wars – with Andrew Doyle launched in 2020 and has put out 14 episodes, alongside 1 trailer or bonus episode in the time since. That works out to roughly 15 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a monthly cadence.

Episodes typically run an hour to ninety minutes — most land between 53 min and 1h 8m — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language News show.

The catalogue appears to be on hiatus or wound down — the most recent episode landed 5.1 years ago, with no new episodes in over a year.

Episodes
14
Running
2020–2021 · 1y
Median length
1h
Cadence
Monthly

From the publisher

Andrew Doyle and guests discuss cancel culture, wokeness and free speech. A spiked podcast.

Latest Episodes

Ep 1414: Charlie Hebdo’s duty to offend, with Robert McLiam Wilson

Charlie Hebdo writer Robert McLiam Wilson joins Andrew Doyle to talk satire, racism and the 2015 attack.Support the show:https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/Sign up to Today on spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/

Mar 25, 202155 min

Ep 1313: Race is a fiction, with Thomas Chatterton Williams

Thomas Chatterton Williams, author of Self-Portrait in Black and White, tells Andrew Doyle why he no longer identifies as black.Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sign up to Today on spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/

Mar 11, 202157 min

Ep 1212: Exposing critical race theory, with Christopher Rufo

Investigative journalist Christopher Rufo talks to Andrew Doyle about the racist ideology that’s taking over American life.Sign up to Today on spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Support this show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/

Feb 25, 202157 min

Ep 1111: Has the left abandoned solidarity?, with Giles Fraser

Priest and polemicist Giles Fraser talks about his journey from revolutionary to parish priest, our human need for community, and why it’s dangerous to demonise our opponents.Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/

Feb 11, 202140 min

Ep 1010: The new clerisy, with Tom Holland

Historian Tom Holland talks to Andrew Doyle about his latest book, Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind, and about the Christian roots of the culture war. Support the show by making a regular donation to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/

Jan 28, 20211h 3m

Ep 99: Comedians aren’t activists, with Scott Capurro

Award-winning (and highly controversial) comedian Scott Capurro talks to Andrew Doyle about Scott’s ban from Australian TV, dealing with aggressive hecklers and how comedians can outsmart the easily offended.Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/

Dec 23, 20201h 6m

Ep 88: Treason of the intellectuals, with Peter Boghossian

Peter Boghossian and Andrew Doyle discuss the 'legitimation crisis' in higher education, the collapse of truth in academia, and how our institutions are tearing themselves apart. Peter is assistant professor of philosophy at Portland State University. He has an extensive publication record across multiple domains of thought and is co-author of How to Have Impossible Conversations. His open criticism of the ideological direction of higher education has come with certain costs (he was recently denied promotion to associate professor at Portland State University). Support the podcast here: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/

Dec 11, 20201h 10m

Ep 77: The misogyny of trans activism, with Julie Bindel

Women’s rights campaigner Julie Bindel joins Andrew Doyle to talk about the tyranny of trans extremism, the myth of ‘sex work’, and why feminism isn’t for men. But the spiked book: https://www.spiked-online.com/book/

Nov 27, 20201h 8m

Ep 66: Lancing the boil of cancel culture, with James Dreyfus

Sitcom star James Dreyfus joins Andrew Doyle to talk about acting during lockdown, his run-ins with the gay press and the art world’s cowardly indifference to free speech.Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/

Nov 10, 202051 min

Ep 55: America is exhausted, with Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog

Jesse, Katie and Andrew discuss their run-ins with cancel culture, how big business went woke and what the election means for the culture wars.Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/

Oct 22, 20201h 4m

Ep 44: Am I a right-wing comic?, with Geoff Norcott and Simon Evans

Geoff, Simon and Andrew discuss the state of stand-up, the BBC’s institutional wokeness, and the row over ‘right-wing’ comedy.Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/

Sep 17, 202052 min

Ep 33: The church of social justice, with Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay

The authors of Cynical Theories join Andrew Doyle to discuss the origins of woke ideology and how the pandemic forced it into the mainstream. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/

Aug 19, 20201h 17m

Ep 22: The woke are gaslighting us all, with Bridget Phetasy

Comedian and writer Bridget Phetasy is Andrew Doyle’s first guest on Culture Wars. They discuss how Bridget became an accidental pundit and how even the pandemic became infected by the culture wars.Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/

Jul 16, 20201h 8m

Ep 11: Introducing... Culture Wars – with Andrew Doyle

trailer

The culture wars have spiralled out of control. Cancel culture has run amok. The once-fringe ideology of wokeness has graduated from the campus safe space to the adult world, colonising politics, the media and corporations.In this new monthly podcast, stand-up comedian, satirist and spiked columnist Andrew Doyle and guests will discuss the latest in woke idiocy, dissecting our authoritarian times, while having fun along the way.

Jul 9, 20201 min