UnHerd with Freddie Sayers

Updated: 24 Apr 2025 • 307 episodes
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Freddie Sayers from online magazine UnHerd seeks out top scientists, writers, politicians and thinkers for in-depth interviews to try and help us work out what’s really going on. What started as an inquiry into the pandemic has broadened into a fascinating look at free speech, science, meaning and the ideas shaping our world. Due to popular demand here is a podcast version of our YouTube — available to watch, for free here or by searching ‘LockdownTV’. Enjoy! And don't forget to rate, like and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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In this interview, UnHerd's Editor-in-Chief, Freddie Sayers, questions Right-wing French philosopher Renaud Camus on his controversial theories of remigration and the "Great Replacement". Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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UnHerd’s Florence Read interviews feminist journalist Julie Bindel on the UK’s grooming gang crisis. Bindel exposes the history of these crimes, society’s neglect and victim-shaming, and the political and cultural failures fuelling their persistence. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Join Freddie Sayers for an exclusive deep dive with pro-life activists Adam Smith-Connor, Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, and Livia Tossici-Bolt, who share their experiences of being questioned and arrested for praying and holding signs near UK abortion clinics. With the US State Department and the Trump administration closely

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UnHerd’s US Editor sits down with Editor-in-Chief Freddie Sayers, about his exclusive interview with US Vice President JD Vance. The interview marked the VP’s first major interview with a European outlet since taking office and topped headlines across the Britain, Europe and America on Tuesday, sending the UK’s FTSE ‘s

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Freddie Sayers & Douglas Murray 15 Apr 2025 • EN

Douglas Murray responds to Joe Rogan

In this captivating UnHerd interview, Freddie Sayers sits down with Douglas Murray to trace his remarkable evolution from a young Oxford scholar immersed in cultural and artistic pursuits to a global neoconservative commentator. Murray reflects on his early days writing the acclaimed biography Bosie (2000), a deep dive

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Freddie Sayers & Slavoj Žižek 09 Apr 2025 • EN

Slavoj Žižek: Trump is a liberal fetish

Dubbed “the most dangerous philosopher in the West”, Slovenian psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek has singlehandedly led a revolution in punk political theory. Now, in the shadow of Donald Trump 2.0, he asks why democracy fails, sex sells and how rock bottom could be the best place to start. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priv

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