Speaker series: Piers Morgan – Woke is Dead
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The Spectator
4.4 • 785 Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Piers Morgan sits down with Andrew Doyle in Glasgow to discuss Piers’s provocative new book, Woke Is Dead, and share their unfiltered views on the state of the world today. Rather than celebrating the death of woke, Piers’s book advocates for the return of common sense and a less divided, more sensible society. Piers Morgan: Woke Is Dead with Andrew Doyle will explore why Piers believes woke culture is on its way out, what a return to common sense might look like, and how the cultural tide is shifting across politics, the media and everyday life.
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| 0:38.3 | Good evening and welcome to the Spectator event's exclusive speaker series, |
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| 0:46.9 | For tonight's very special event, please join me in welcoming to the stage, |
| 0:50.7 | your host, the legendary comedian and playwright Andrew Doyle, |
| 0:55.5 | and our star guest, |
| 1:00.3 | the sharp-tongued titan of talk shows and author of Woke as Dead, Piers Morgan. |
| 1:08.8 | So before we go any further, the last time I was in a theatre like this in Glasgow, a 47-year-old spinster walked on stage. I was a judge on a show called Britain's Got Talent, |
| 1:13.3 | and she walked on the stage and said, |
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| 1:24.9 | She sold 27 million albums. |
| 1:29.5 | Outsold Lady Gaga and Beyonce. |
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| 1:32.9 | And it all happened here in Glasgow. |
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