The Times Red Box Podcast

Matt Chorley speaks to Times Columnists Libby Purves and Rachel Sylvester about the news of the day, and comedian Andy Hamilton about what he'd do if he ruled the world - all while eating some of Neil Kinnock's famous welsh cakes.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The comedian who ran for Parliament, Al Murray, speaks to Matt Chorley about the politics of comedy...and the comedy of politics.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Matt Chorley is joined by Sunday Times Political Editor Tim Shipman to watch the first despatch box battle of the new term, and pause the action to explain what's going on.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Matt Chorley takes the show to Parliament to explore the Commons chamber; speak to one of the doorman, the Times' lobby team and Parliament's resident falcon (yes, the bird).  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

As part of Times Radio's World Cup of Best Prime Ministers We Never Had, Matt speaks to political historians Anthony Seldon and Steve Richards on the PMs that never were.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Daniel Finkelstein - sitting in for Matt Chorley - speaks to former Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable, and gets the results of the leadership contest, live.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Red Box's very own Patrick Maguire and the Sunday Times' Gabriel Pogrund join Daniel Finkelstein - sitting in for Matt Chorley - to talk about their new book Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Daniel Finkelstein - sitting in for Matt Chorley - speaks to former Chancellor George Osborne about the right age to enter politics, and whether Joe Biden is too old to run for President.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Daniel Finkelstein - sitting in for Matt Chorley - speaks to authors Tom Chivers and Jamie Susskind about how data and algorithms are being used to shape politics and policy.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Matt Chorley speaks to the Times data team to recreate a government Coronavirus press briefing, and finds out whether or not we've got the virus under control.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Matt speaks to three 17-year-old budding politicians about political TikTok, General Election 'hype houses' and what it's like to be young and political online.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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.