UnHerd with Freddie Sayers

UnHerd

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.

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389 episodes
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Feb 3, 2022 · 1 hr 8 min
UnHerd Live: Where does feminism go next?
Julie Bindel, Hadley Freeman and Mary Harrington discuss what's next for women's liberation
Jan 31, 2022 · 34 min
Denmark's state modeller: Why we've ended ALL Covid laws
Freddie Sayers spoke to Dr Camilla Holten-Møller about her country's bold decision
Jan 26, 2022 · 45 min
Kate Clanchy: "My life's work has been taken away"
The writer speaks to Freddie Sayers about teaching, writing, and cancel culture
Jan 18, 2022 · 30 min
Israeli vaccine advisor: "We have made mistakes"
Professor Cyrille Cohen talks herd immunity and his pandemic regrets
Jan 12, 2022 · 37 min
Dr Steve James: I’m willing to lose my job over vaccine mandates
The NHS consultant who challenged Sajid Javid explains all to Freddie Sayers
Dec 31, 2021 · 1 hr 21 min
2021: Year in Review with Freddie Sayers, Aris Roussinos and Mary Harrington
UnHerd's contributors look back at a tumultuous year
Dec 22, 2021 · 26 min
Brian Pottinger: Why South Africans are refusing the vaccine
Brian Pottinger talks to Freddie Sayers about his country's response to Covid
Dec 15, 2021 · 29 min
South Africa data: Could Omicron be the end of the pandemic?
Pieter Streicher makes the case for cautious optimism in South Africa
Dec 2, 2021 · 19 min
Inside Australia’s Covid internment camp
Freddie Sayers spoke to Hayley Hodgson, who has returned from a 14-day detention
Nov 30, 2021 · 34 min
Paul Kingsnorth: why I changed sides in the vaccine wars
Freddie Sayers spoke to the writer and philosopher about the widening divide
Nov 17, 2021 · 28 min
Freddie Sayers investigates Austria's lockdown of the unvaccinated
We visited Vienna to explore the world's first lockdown for the unvaccinated
Nov 11, 2021 · 30 min
Asra Nomani: Mothers fight back against Critical Race Theory in schools
How one parent protester took on Critical Race Theory
Nov 8, 2021 · 27 min
Covid doctor: No UK lockdown this Christmas
Dr Raghib Ali tells Freddie Sayers that he UK's Covid outlook isn't so bad
Nov 3, 2021 · 49 min
Kathleen Stock: I won't be silenced
Kathleen Stock recently resigned her post following an aggressive campaign of targeted harassment over her gender critical views
Nov 2, 2021 · 40 min
Bjorn Lomborg: Climate change is NOT the end of the world
The Danish academic challenges common misconceptions
Oct 28, 2021 · 34 min
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: wokeness is a gift to Islamism
Freddie Sayers speaks with Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Oct 27, 2021 · 1 hr
Steven Pinker: How rational are YOU?
The Harvard professor spoke about his new book at an UnHerd members event
Oct 26, 2021 · 22 min
Ash Sarkar: Left and Right must unite against Big Tech censorship
Freddie Sayers spoke to the Novara editor about her channel's disappearance from YouTube
Oct 8, 2021 · 43 min
The retreat of the West is a disaster - Bernard-Henri Lévy
Freddie Sayers speaks to Bernard-Henri Lévy. Few have made the case for liberal interventionism more consistently than Bernard-Henri Lévy. Despite setbacks in Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan, the French public intellectual’s worldview has remained largely unchanged. But with the Taliban now in control of Afghanistan — and signs of resistance dwindling — is he still convinced the West was right to be there at all? He joined Freddie Sayers in our London studio to discuss his new book, The Will to See. Read more at unherd.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Oct 6, 2021 · 1 hr 4 min
Debate: are Conservatives doomed?
Peter Hitchens, Ed West, Miriam Cates and Matthew Goodwin joined UnHerd in Manchester