TALKING POLITICS

Looking Back, Looking Forward

This week David, Helen and our producer Catherine Carr look back at five years of podcasting and five years of crazy politics, to pick our favourite moments and to discuss what we've learned. From the 2015 general election to the current crisis, via the Corn Laws and Crashed, the politics of abortion and super forecasting, Corbyn and nuclear weapons. Plus, we'll let you know about some of our plans for 2021. Episodes Mentioned in this Episode: <a href="https://www.talkingpoliticspodcast.com/blog/2018/113-crashed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Crashed with Adam Tooze</a><a href="https://www.talkingpoliticspodcast.com/blog/2020/289-post-covid-economics" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Adam Tooze on post-COVID economics</a><a href="https://www.talkingpoliticspodcast.com/blog/2019/170-the-party-splits-in-1846" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Corn Laws with Boyd Hilton</a><a href="https://www.talkingpoliticspodcast.com/blog/2017/45-another-shock" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Another Shock! (From 2017) with Finbarr Livesey</a><a href="https://www.talkingpoliticspodcast.com/blog/2018/111-talking-politics-guide-to-nuclear-weapons" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Talking Politics Guide… to Nuclear Weapons with Aaron Rapport</a><a href="https://www.talkingpoliticspodcast.com/blog/2020/225-superforecasting" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Superforecasting with David Spiegelhalter</a><a href="https://www.talkingpoliticspodcast.com/blog/2020/214-the-great-abortion-switcheroo" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">American Histories: The Great Abortion Switcheroo with Sarah Churchwell</a><a href="https://www.relativelypodcast.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Catherine’s new podcast, Relatively.</a> And as ever, recommended reading curated by our friends at the LRB can be found here: <a href="http://lrb.co.uk/talking" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">lrb.co.uk/talking</a>

Coronavirus! Climate! Brexit! Trump! Politics has never been more unpredictable, more alarming or more interesting: Talking Politics is the podcast that tries to make sense of it all. Every week David Runciman and Helen Thompson talk to the most interesting people around about the ideas and events that shape our world: from history to economics, from philosophy to fiction. What does the future hold? Can democracy survive? How crazy will it get? This is the political conversation that matters. Talking Politics is brought to you in partnership with the London Review of Books, Europe's leading magazine of books and ideas.