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Politics has never been more unpredictable, more alarming or more interesting: Talking Politics is the podcast that tries to make sense of it all. Every week David Runciman and Helen Thompson talk to the most interesting people around about the ideas and events that shape our world: from history to economics, from philosophy to fiction.

What does the future hold?
Can democracy survive?
How crazy will it get?

It’s the political conversation everyone is having – please join us.

A new episode of Talking Politics is uploaded every Thursday morning. Subscribe now via iTunes, Acast, Stitcher or your podcast app of choice. 

Talking Politics is produced and edited by Catherine Carr
Sound by Nick Carter / Mixsonix

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