The Times Red Box Podcast

Matt Chorley goes to the Spitting Image studio to speak to some of the stars of the show ahead of its second seriesPLUSIndia Knight and the Spectator's Katy Balls discuss the Commons action last night  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Matt Chorley and Times Red Box Editor Patrick Maguire pause the action to analyse the exchanges between Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer at Prime Minister's Questions. PLUS: Crampon: Robert Crampton and Alice Thomson discuss the top stories of the day  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Are we facing the end of cheap goods and services? Matt Chorley speaks to economists, industry leaders and people working at the sharp end of retail, food and logistics to find out whether consumers are looking at permanently higher prices. PLUSFormer Social Care Minister Alistair Burt and Care England's Martin Green respond to the Prime Minister's Social care plan; and The Times' David Aaronovitch and the New Statesman's Rachel Cunliffe pick over the day's news.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Matt Chorley is live from the House of Commons as parliament returns. He speaks to the chief political correspondent for The Times, Henry Zeffman, to find out who's up and who's down in the cabinet and hears from three MP's who've spent most of their career so far on Zoom. PLUS, The Times' Rachel Sylvester and The Telegraph's Lucy Fisher discussed the social care crisis.    See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It's been months since the governments last covid briefing so Matt Chorley steps up to the plate and has re-created it. Speaking to The Times data journalist Tom Calver and experts on the ground Dr Rachel Clarke and Rohini Mathur, epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.PLUSThe Times' Melanie Reid and The Financial Times' political editor Jim Pickard discuss the day's news.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Three weeks on from the Plymouth shooting, Matt Chorley speaks to Times Miami Correspondent Jacqui Goddard, Republicans Overseas' Greg Swenson and the Adam Smith Institute's Morgan Schondelmaier about the different attitudes to gun ownership and the legacies of mass shootings in the UK and the US. PLUSThe Times' James Marriott and the Telegraph's Olivia Utley discuss the day's news.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Matt Chorley speaks to journalists from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to get the news from the four corners of the UK. PLUSRobert Crampton and Susie Boniface discuss Dominic Raab's fate.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Matt Chorley speaks to the Times Scottish political editor Kieran Andrews and editor of the Courier David Clegg about the alliance and feud of Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond, that has dominated Scottish politics for a decade.PLUSEmma Woolf and Daniel Finkelstein discuss Greta Thunberg and the nappy tax.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Carole Walker, sitting in for Matt Chorley, speaks to politics professors Tim Bale, Matthew Goodwin and Amelia Hadfield about what populism in Europe means for traditional mainstream right-wing parties. PLUSRachel Sylvester and Libby Purves discuss Afghanistan and Monica Lewinsky.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Matt Chorley reassembles the Times Radio Focus Group with views from voters in Dominic Raab’s constituency in Surrey.PLUS columnists Melanie Reid and John Stevens on the death of department stores and political memorabilia.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Matt Chorley indulges Boris Johnson's request for local leaders to email him with ideas on how to 'Level Up' the UK, hearing from several councillors from around the country.PLUS James Marriott and Rachel Cunliffe reappraise the importance of the suburbs, and whether Nigella Lawson was right to remove the word 'slut' from her recipes.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Matt Chorley speaks to journalists from the four corners of the UK to get the latest political and pandemic news.PLUSRobert Crampton and Alice Thomson discuss Britain's relationship with animals and the four day working week.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Matt Chorley speaks to experts and journalists in the US, France, Italy, Germany, Canada and Japan about what their countries want to see happen at the virtual G7, hosted today by Boris Johnson to find an international solution to the situation in Afghanistan. PLUS David Aaronovitch and Daniel Finkelstein discuss Dominic Raab and Extinction Rebellion.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Matt Chorley speaks to Nobel Prize winning behavioural economist Richard Thaler about this new book Nudge: The Final Edition and how governments can change people's behaviour in a pandemic. PLUSTimes columnists Rachel Sylvester and Libby Purves discuss the day's news.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Luke Jones sits in for Matt Chorley and speaks to guardian correspondent Jason Burke and Lieutenant Colonel Richard Williams about what it was like in Afghanistan in 2001.Plus Times columnist Melanie Reid and the Daily Mail’s John Stevens on the holidays and the Paralympics.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Luke Jones sits in for Matt Chorley where he discusses the situation in Belarus right now with former UK ambassador to Belarus, Dr Nigel Gould-Davies and former Belarusian Minister of Culture, now opposition figure, Pavel Latushko.PLUS columnists India Knight and James Marriott discuss incel culture and uprooting your life.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In a departure from normal service, Luke Jones speaks to journalists and experts from China, Pakistan, the US and Russia to hear about what different countries will be hoping happens in the wake of the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan and how they are pivoting to capitalise on the situation.PLUS Robert Crampton and Alice Thomson assess the opening statements of the parliamentary debate on Afghanistan.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Luke Jones speaks to Times Retail Editor Ashley Armstrong, Pizza Express Founder Hugh Osmond, Phones4u founder John Caudwell and serial entrepreneur Luke Jonhson about how you go about buying and selling a business. PLUSDavid Aaronovitch and Daniel Finkelstein discuss the West's response to the unfolding crisis in Afghanistan.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Luke Jones, sitting in for Matt Chorley is joined by the Mother and the Father of the House, Conservative MP Peter Bottomley and Labour MP Harriet Harman to reminisce over 85 years on the green benches. PLUSThe Times Libby Purves and the New Statesman's Rachel Cunliffe talk Afghanistan and the Plymouth shooting.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Matt Chorley tries to save the government with the Times' Henry Zeffman as they take part in an immersive play called Crisis? What Crisis? where they have to save the Callaghan government of 1979 from a vote of no confidence. PLUS columnists Melanie Reid and James Forsyth discuss learning languages and why we need the royal family more than ever.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.