Looking Back, Looking Forward
TALKING POLITICS
Catherine Carr
4.7 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
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:
- Crashed with Adam Tooze
- Adam Tooze on post-COVID economics
- The Corn Laws with Boyd Hilton
- Another Shock! (From 2017) with Finbarr Livesey
- The Talking Politics Guide… to Nuclear Weapons with Aaron Rapport
- Superforecasting with David Spiegelhalter
- American Histories: The Great Abortion Switcheroo with Sarah Churchwell
- Catherine’s new podcast, Relatively.
And as ever, recommended reading curated by our friends at the LRB can be found here: lrb.co.uk/talking
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my name's David Rundsman and this is Talking Politics. Today, we're going to look back over the last five years of this podcast, five years of really tumultuous politics. And we're going to look ahead to what's coming next on this podcast and on others. |
| 0:23.1 | Talking politics is brought to you in partnership with the London Review of Books. |
| 0:27.7 | If you enjoy listening to Talking Politics, you'll definitely enjoy reading the LRB. |
| 0:32.9 | That's why they publish a reading list of relevant writing from the archive to accompany |
| 0:37.0 | every episode on LRb.co.uk |
| 0:40.6 | And also why you, Talking Politics listeners, are invited to subscribe for just one pound an issue via the URL, lrb. |
| 0:50.5 | dot me slash talk. |
| 0:53.3 | That's lrb. dot Me slash Talk. Talking Politics in partnership with the London |
| 1:00.5 | Review of Books. So today with me and with Helen Thompson, it's really nice that we also have someone that regular listeners will have heard in the background many times, but not often in the foreground. |
| 1:23.0 | Catherine Carr, our producer, who's been the producer of talking politics from the beginning. |
| 1:27.8 | And we're coming up to a milestone when nearly our 300th episode of Talking Politics. |
| 1:33.1 | There are more than that, if you count what this podcast was before. It used to be called |
| 1:36.8 | election. And we just had our 20 millionth download. And we thought we would just look back, |
| 1:43.3 | partly because it's just been an incredible |
| 1:45.7 | five years of politics. And we've each picked out a couple of clips, moments from the past |
| 1:51.8 | five years that sum up to us something about either this podcast or the politics that we've |
| 1:56.6 | been talking about. Helen, so it's true that before we were talking politics, we were this sort of little |
| 2:02.8 | Cambridge University podcast called Election. And you and I, we started this in 2015 for the UK. |
| 2:10.7 | We were just going to talk about the UK general election, which we did for a few weeks back then. |
| 2:15.9 | That was the Cameron-Mill Miller Band election. So this was before |
| 2:19.3 | Brexit, before Corbyn, before Trump. And you and I have been talking on this podcast about |
| 2:25.3 | politics ever since and off this podcast as well. I mean, I don't know what I feel about what we were |
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