The Lock In with Jeremy Paxman
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The Lock In with Jeremy Paxman
Jeremy Paxman, of Newsnight and University Challenge fame, has decided there must be more to life than cudgelling politicians and students on TV. ‘The Lock In’ is, as he puts it, “an excuse for me to talk to people I want to hear from, in a place I want to be...the pub”. So it is that, free at last...
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43 epizódLord Martin Rees
Jeremy sits down with the Astronomer Royal, Lord Martin Rees. As well as being the nation's foremost stargazer, he is the founder of the Centre for Ex...
Toby Young
Jeremy sits down with Toby Young, founder of the Free Speech Union, to discuss cancel culture, free speech, etc.
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Amartya Sen
Jeremy sits down with an intellectual hero of his and nobel winner, Amartya Sen, to discuss welfare economics, colonialism, higher education, and the...
Andy Burnham
Jeremy sits down with the Mayor of Greater Manchester and one of Labour's current success stories, Andy Burnham, to talk about devolution to the North...
Jed Mercurio
Jeremy sits down with Jed Mercurio, writer of Line of Duty and other hit dramas, to talk TV, police, conspiracies, and writing.
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Michael Burleigh
Jeremy sits down with Michael Burleigh, a distinguished historian who has recently turned his hand to the subject of political assassination in his bo...
Salman Rushdie
Jeremy sits down with Salman Rushdie, celebrated novelist.
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Enric Sala
Jeremy sits down with Enric Sala, National Geographic Explorer in Residence. He has dived all over the world and campaigns to create marine protected...
Andrew Hunter Murray
Jeremy sits down with Andrew Hunter Murray, co-host of the podcast juggernaut, 'No Such Thing As A Fish'. He also indulges in Jane Austen improv comed...
Alastair Campbell
Jeremy sits down with former Downing Street head of communications Alastair Campbell, the real-life Malcolm Tucker and most prolific diarist since Sam...
Conn Iggulden
Jeremy has a 'drink' with Conn Iggulden, one of the country's foremost writers of historical fiction. On the menu: history, Kent, time machines, the Q...
Sam Lee
This week Jeremy is with Sam Lee, folk singer and Nightingale obsessive. On the menu, everything and anything to do with the greatest avian singer of...
Justin Maciejewski
Jeremy has another virtual pint with Justin Maciejewski, director of the National Army Museum, former soldier and former McKinsey consultant, and a de...
Armando Iannucci
Jeremy has another virtual pint with Armando Iannucci, creator of a litany of comedy hits such In the Loop, The Thick of It, Veep, Alan Partridge, etc...
Jake Fiennes
Jeremy sits down with the conservation legend Jake Fiennes, scion of one of England's most overachieving families. On the menu: birdsong, nightingales...
Hilary McGrady
This week it's the Director General of the National Trust, one of Britain's biggest heritage organisations and the custodian of hundreds of our finest...
Naz Shah MP
Jeremy sits down with Naz Shah, MP for Bradford West and one of the least typical members of Parliament he has ever met. On the menu: Naz's unusual ro...
Rowan Hooper
Jeremy sits down with Rowan Hooper of the New Scientist, author of 'How To Spend a Trillion Dollars'. On the menu is a hard headed look at how humanit...
Eliot Higgins (Bellingcat)
Jeremy sits down with one of his heroes, Eliot Higgins, founder of the citizen spy agency, Bellingcat. From his desk in Leicester, Higgins has embarra...
Tony Parsons
Another virtual pint. Jeremy sits down with the writer Tony Parsons, author of many novels, most famously 'Man and Boy'. On the menu, writing, lockdow...
Sir William Atkinson
Jeremy sits down with Sir William Atkinson, the superhead who came to Britain from Jamaica at the age of seven, and in a stellar career earned a knigh...
David Runciman
Jeremy has a pint with David Runciman, host of the Talking Politics podcast, author, and Cambridge Professor. They discuss the waning public faith in...
Sir David Omand
Jeremy has a 'pint' with Sir David Omand, former head of the government's listening, GCHQ, and thus one of our top spies. Topics include the power of...
Dr Rachel Clarke
Jeremy talks to Dr Rachel Clarke, specialist in palliative care, about the meaning of a good death and her experience of the pandemic.
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Helen Pluckrose
Jeremy has another imaginary pint with Helen Pluckrose, co-author of 'Cynical Theories' and participant in the infamous 'grievance studies affair'. He...
Andrew Doyle
With pubs still closed, Jeremy has yet another virtual pint with Andrew Dole, creator of Twitter sensation, Titania McGrath.
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Tom Holland
Jeremy sits down with Tom Holland, one of Britain's best-known historians, to discuss no less a subject than the making of the modern world.
Ho...
Ben Macintyre
Jeremy enjoys another notional pint with Ben Macintyre, a man who knows more about spies than is healthy for anyone. They discuss Agent Sonya, the wom...
Clare Balding
Jeremy sits down with Clare Balding broadcaster, rambler, scion of a racing dynasty, and now the author of a book about 'heroic animals'. Topics inclu...
Matt Parr
Jeremy enjoys an actual pint with Matt Parr, a former nuclear submarine commander and Rear Admiral, Submarines. They discuss the merits of life in "an...
Isabella Tree
Jeremy sits down with Isabella Tree, rewilder of the Knepp Estate and author of 'Wilding - the return of nature to a British farm'. They discuss the d...
Raynor Winn
Jeremy sits down with Raynor Winn, author of The Salt Path and Wild Silence, to talk about her extraordinary story of loss and redemption on the South...
Winter of the mind
Jeremy sits down with mental health professionals to discuss a subject close to his heart: the state of the nation’s mental health. They discuss how i...
Mark Criddle
Jeremy has a pint with Mark Criddle, coxswain of the RNLI Torbay lifeboat, who has saved hundreds of lives over many decades putting to sea with the R...
Sunetra Gupta
Jeremy talks to Professor Sunetra Gupta, a University of Oxford epidemiologist who has been pilloried for daring to suggest that there could be an alt...
Lord Jonathan Sumption
Jeremy talks to Lord Sumption, a senior judge and former member of the Supreme Court who has suggested that in its covid response the government has o...
Brian Cox
Jeremy talks to the actor Brian Cox about reading lines, nationalisation, interment, and more.
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Richard Dawkins
Jeremy talks to the High Priest of atheism, Richard Dawkins, about the Tooth Fairy and other higher powers.
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Michael Palin
Paxo sits down in the Haverstock Tavern for a pint with the former Python and inveterate globetrotter, to talk about such comedic subjects as churches...
James Rebanks
Jeremy enjoys a robust encounter with the farmer and writer James Rebanks (who puts up with no bull) about the coming revolution in the English countr...