Articles tagged Podcasts:

My Top 20 Podcasts of 2022

  • 23 Dec 2022

Time for my top 20 podcasts of the year. I have to say my podcast listening habits have changed somewhat in recent times. I'm listening to far fewer political or news podcasts than I used to and tend to use podcasts nowadays to escape the world of current affairs. As you w...

My Top 20 Podcasts of 2021

  • 29 Dec 2021

Back in January 2021 I compiled a list of 30 podcasts I regularly listen to. So I thought it was time to revisit it, as my podcast listening habits have changed somewhat. I've reduced the list to twenty and this year I've ranked them based on how often I listen to them. Th...

The 12 Podcasts I Listen to Every Week

  • 12 Jun 2021

I have about 50 podcasts which I subscribe to in my Apple podcasts library on my phone. Some I dip into, some I listen to every episode religiously. Here are the 12 podcasts I make sure I listen to reach week. There was a time when most of these would have been political podca...

Reaction Media Column 19: Normal People & Payne's Politics

  • 3 Sep 2020

This article was originally published on Reaction.Life.   Normal People – BBC3 & iPlayer “And now it’s time for BBC3 on BBC1”. Eight words which usually encourage me to change channel more quickly than Boris Johnson can execute a screeching U-Turn. Its programmes ...

It Shouldn't Happen to a Radio Presenter 73: Isolation Station Podcast

  • 6 May 2020

This is a 17 minute podcast interview I did for Radio Today's 'Isolation Station' with Tony Dibbin. We covered a lot of ground but concentrated on what it's like broadcasting my radio show from home each night, what reaction I'm getting from listeners  and what it was like bre...

Announcing the 'Iain Dale - The Whole Show' Podcast

  • 4 Feb 2020

Back when I started on LBC in 2010 people's listening habits were much less complex than they are today. Very few people listened to podcasts in those days. Most listened to radio on normal linear platforms.There were few online listeners. Ten years on, things have changed dra...

'For the Many' Podcast Reviewed in The Observer

  • 2 Feb 2020

Since November 2017, Jacqui Smith and I have been recording a weekly podcast, called For the Many. We chat about politics, current affairs and the media and anything else that takes our fancy. Over time we have built up a very loyal audience and at the end of the podcast we ta...

My Top Thirty Podcast Recommendations

  • 25 Jan 2020

I find that I'm listening to more and more podcasts. Some of them are very well known and others I discover by accident or through personal recommendation. There's little doubt that listening to audio, as opposed to music, is on the cincrease, whether it's live speech radio, p...

Podcast: Iain's Interview on the 'Delingpod'

  • 28 Oct 2019

  What is a true conservative? And note the small ‘c’. On this week’s Delingpod you’ll find a 75 minute chat between James Delingpole and myself in which he accuses me of not being a proper conservative and being a bit ‘squishy’. I am apparently not ‘sound’ enough...

Come & See a Live 'For the Many' Podcast at Podcast Live on 7 April!

  • 22 Mar 2019

Let me tell you about something, which I think is really exciting. Throughout my political career I've tried to do things which enhance political engagement. I opened a political bookshop, I have run two political publishing companies, I was one of the first in the UK to start...