The Times Red Box Podcast

Times columnists David Aaronovitch and Danny Finkelstein join Matt to chew over government resignations and U-turns. Then, Matt speaks to two top pollsters - YouGov's Chris Curtis, and Deborah Mattinson from BritainThinks - about the continuing fallout of exam results...and what kind of car the public think the government would be.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Algorithms: what are they? And how can you use them to predict someone's exam results? Matt Chorley speaks to Timandra Harkness, journalist and author of 'Big Data: Does Size Matter?' to find out. Timandra's shortly followed by Theresa May's former spokesman, Paul Harrison, and former Liberal Democrat adviser Sean Kemp who tell Matt what it's like to be in the eye of a political storm.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On A-level results day, former Labour Education Secretary Alan Johnson speaks to Matt Chorley about not going to university, the government's handling of education throughout the Covid-19 crisis and scrapping GCSEs.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Matt Chorley speaks to New Zealand's Deputy Prime Minister, Winston Peters, about the new outbreak of coronavirus cases there; Brexit and Boris Johnson.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Matt Chorley speaks to Dr Larry Sabato, editor in chief of 'Sobato’s Crystal Ball', and Rachel Bitecofer, host of the Election Whisperer podcast, about how Donald Trump could turn things around, the lack of floating voters, and why Joe Biden is pinning his hopes on remaining dull.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Matt Chorley is joined by former Foreign Secretary and Chief Executive of the International Rescue Committee David Miliband to discuss Lebanon, the refugee crisis and the current state of the Labour Party.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Labour Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, and the Conservative Mayor of the West Midlands, Andy Street, speak to Matt Chorley about local lockdown, track and trace and more.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Matt Chorley and former Number 10 pollster James Johnson return to Times Radio's regular focus group to ask swing voters their take on politics, and political leaders.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Amid talk that Boris Johnson could be considering moving his office out of Downing Street, Matt Chorley speaks to former historian in residence in Number 10, Jack Brown, about the history of the building. He's then joined by former Downing Street insiders Baroness Gabby Bertin and Jonathan Powell, who discuss what it's like to work behind the UK's most famous black door.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Matt Chorley speaks to four city council leaders from across the UK about the state our city centres now, and post-COVID19. Featuring: Rachael Robathan, the Conservative leader of Westminster City Council Keith Aspden, the Liberal Democrat leader of City of York Council Susan Aitken, the Scottish National Party leader of Glasgow City Council The Labour Mayor Sir Peter Soulsby of Leicester City Council  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

No not Clement Attlee in space... Matt Chorley talks to Shadow Home Secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds and historian Steven Fielding about the 75th anniversary of Attlee's election as Prime Minister, followed by Sue Horne, Head of Space Exploration at the UK Space Agency, to talk us through the latest NASA launch  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

After Boris Johnson warned about the risks of foreign travel this summer, Matt jets off aboard Times Radio Airways to get the latest from Times correspondents on coronavirus in their countries.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Matt Chorley speaks to journalist and historian Anne Applebaum on her new book, 'Twilight of Democracy' - how worried should we be about our politics?  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Matt Chorley speaks to the Times' Washington Correspondent Henry Zeffman about Joe Biden's upcoming Vice Presidential selection.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In an extra special podcast, Matt Chorley looks back over Boris Johnson's first year in office by assessing the success of promises made in his first ever speech and talking to historian Anthony Seldon, biographer Sonia Purnell and friend and former aide Guto Harri.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A month after the government stopped doing them, Matt Chorley speaks to the Times very own experts to re-create the Downing Street Coronavirus press briefing  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Matt Chorley is joined by two experts on Russia - Dr Jonathan Eyal from RUSI and Dr Calder Walton from Havard - to dissect the Russia report and look at the country's history of interference abroad.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Matt Chorley talks to author Steven Rayson, pollster Peter Kellner and former Labour MP Caroline Flint about the future of Red Wall seats in the North of England  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The two Liberal Democrat leadership candidates - Ed Davey and Layla Moran - talk to Matt Chorley about what they would do if they were in charge.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Matt Chorley and Sunday Times Political Editor Tim Shipman pick through the exchange between Keir Starmer and Boris Johnson.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.