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The Lock In with Jeremy Paxman

James Bray

43 episodes

7 months ago

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 of any editorial oversight, Jeremy has been sitting down in some of London’s finest boozers to enjoy drink and conversation with an eclectic bunch of guests. There are famous ones and obscure ones, but they all have something to say and were willing to sit down with the ‘Grand Inquisitor’ in a pub (or on Zoom, in more recent times). Each and every one is a fascinating conversation. So, pull yourself a pint, pour yourself a glass of plonk, and join The Lock In.

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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 of any editorial oversight, Jeremy has been sitting down in some of London’s finest boozers to enjoy drink and conversation with an eclectic bunch of guests. There are famous ones and obscure ones, but they all have something to say and were willing to sit down with the ‘Grand Inquisitor’ in a pub (or on Zoom, in more recent times). Each and every one is a fascinating conversation. So, pull yourself a pint, pour yourself a glass of plonk, and join The Lock In.

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Episodes (20/43)

The Lock In with Jeremy Paxman

Lord 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 Existential Risk at Cambridge, which means he spends a great deal of time thinking about how humanity might face its doom.

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4 years ago

42 minutes 10 seconds

The Lock In with Jeremy Paxman

Jeremy sits down with Toby Young, founder of the Free Speech Union, to discuss cancel culture, free speech, etc.

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4 years ago

43 minutes 5 seconds

The Lock In with Jeremy Paxman

Jeremy sits down with an intellectual hero of his and nobel winner, Amartya Sen, to discuss welfare economics, colonialism, higher education, and the compensations of age.

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4 years ago

22 minutes 1 second

The Lock In with Jeremy Paxman

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.

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4 years ago

41 minutes 28 seconds

The Lock In with Jeremy Paxman

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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4 years ago

33 minutes 9 seconds

The Lock In with Jeremy Paxman

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 book 'Day of the Assassins. It's a blood-spattered thriller of a read, and the conversation covers assassinations of all stripes and from all angles, including the murderers of Trotsky, JFK, Martin Luther King, Caesar, and more.

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4 years ago

37 minutes 41 seconds

The Lock In with Jeremy Paxman

Jeremy sits down with Salman Rushdie, celebrated novelist.

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4 years ago

33 minutes 36 seconds

The Lock In with Jeremy Paxman

Jeremy sits down with Enric Sala, National Geographic Explorer in Residence. He has dived all over the world and campaigns to create marine protected areas. They talk fish, conservation, the Hebrides, Galapagos, Mediterranean, and more.

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4 years ago

30 minutes 43 seconds

The Lock In with Jeremy Paxman

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 comedy, and, more recently, thriller writing.

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4 years ago

26 minutes 26 seconds

The Lock In with Jeremy Paxman

Alastair Campbell

Jeremy sits down with former Downing Street head of communications Alastair Campbell, the real-life Malcolm Tucker and most prolific diarist since Samuel Pepys.

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4 years ago

39 minutes 14 seconds

The Lock In with Jeremy Paxman

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 Queen, Pericles, Thermopylae, and more.

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4 years ago

39 minutes 33 seconds

The Lock In with Jeremy Paxman

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 all. Why do they sing so well? What do they sound like? Why are they so mythologised? Where can you hear them?

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4 years ago

31 minutes 1 second

The Lock In with Jeremy Paxman

Justin Maciejewski

Jeremy has another virtual pint with Justin Maciejewski, director of the National Army Museum, former soldier and former McKinsey consultant, and a deeply thoughtful commentator on the military, one of Jeremy's fondest subjects. On the menu: the role and size of the army, military history, the army's pandemic response, poetry, recruiting, outsourcing, and all sorts.

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4 years ago

45 minutes 14 seconds

The Lock In with Jeremy Paxman

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. On the menu: comedy, writing, Milton, Boris Johnson, much more. Alas, no beer.

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4 years ago

41 minutes 10 seconds

The Lock In with Jeremy Paxman

Jeremy sits down with the conservation legend Jake Fiennes, scion of one of England's most overachieving families. On the menu: birdsong, nightingales, partridges, sward, the future of the countryside, the glories of Holkham, and more.

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4 years ago

41 minutes 58 seconds

The Lock In with Jeremy Paxman

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 castles, great houses and beaches, along with vast swathes of our treasured countryside. They discuss recent controversies over the Trust's vision for the future, its focus on the history of slavery, as well as the plummeting revenues and job losses of the pandemic.

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4 years ago

35 minutes 9 seconds

The Lock In with Jeremy Paxman

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 route into Parliament; authenticity in politics; her favourite Tories; empowerment of women; race; generosity of spirit; Hajj; Ramadan; climbing the greasy pole and the Bradford renaissance.

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4 years ago

50 minutes 37 seconds

The Lock In with Jeremy Paxman

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 humanity might come by such a sum, and the best ways to blow it in order to better our global state. High on the list of topics: climate change. AI, alien life, curing illness.

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4 years ago

24 minutes 40 seconds

The Lock In with Jeremy Paxman

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 embarrassed spy agencies around the world, and unmasked some of Russia's most dangerous professional assassins. He has scooped global news organisations and taken on some of the world's most savage dictatorships. Jeremy asks him how he did it all, and what happens next for Bellingcat?

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4 years ago

31 minutes 30 seconds

The Lock In with Jeremy Paxman

Another virtual pint. Jeremy sits down with the writer Tony Parsons, author of many novels, most famously 'Man and Boy'. On the menu, writing, lockdown, getting away with it, resilience, adversity, funeral arrangements, Bowie, and more.

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4 years ago

31 minutes 40 seconds