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Sarah and Peter wrangle everything from the latest abortion legislation to how to purge the world of nuclear weapons (Sarah suggests we move them to the Moon – pity the poor astronauts who next land there), Star Trek and what the Federation really alluded to. Did Hollywood treat Napoleon fairly or meddle with history for its own ends? And, more happily, we cast Peter as Badger in Toad of Toad Hall with remarkable results. Stay tuned for that.
On our reading and watch list this week:
· Take A Girl Like You – Kingsley Amis
· The Abolition of Britain – Peter Hitchens
· Racing The Enemy - Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
· Farm Hall – Katherine Moar
· The New Men – C.P. Snow
· Star Trek (original series)
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Presenters: Sarah Vine & Peter Hitchens
Producer: Philip Wilding
Editor: Chelsey Moore
Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini
Executive Producer: Jamie East
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Flared trousers, the fate of Northern Ireland, free speech, swimming with Gordon Brown and childish children’s books. All human life, as they say, is here. Sarah wants to know why we’re afraid of difficult conversations and saying what we really think, is it that we’re always being shouted down by those who don’t agree with us? What ever happened to civilised debate?
Not that our debates are ever civilised.
While Peter reminisces about his time in Iran some decades ago and how it’s not the country torn from recent headlines with a huge number of its people who actually want to live in a peaceful, secular society, not the regime enforced on them under mullah rule.
On our reading and watch list this week:
· The Apartment – Director: Billy Wilder
· The Wind In the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
· The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
· The Water Babies – Charles Kingsley
· Black Beauty – Anna Sewell
· Iran: A Nation of Nose Jobs, Not Nuclear War – Peter Hitchens
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Presenters: Sarah Vine & Peter Hitchens
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Editor: Alex Graham
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As Sarah’s book sends shockwaves through former political grandees and the corridors of power, Sarah and Peter sit down to ponder listener questions (and some of Peter’s thoughts too) related to ‘How Not To Be A Political Wife’, a book that has been described as ‘fascinating, embarrassing and fundamentally tragic’, ‘witty, wry and incredibly touching’ and an ‘unflinching account of life at the heart of politics.’
Expect questions and answers on falling in and out of love with Michael Gove, is there such a thing as a happy political marriage and would Sarah ever bite the bullet and go into politics herself?
On our reading and watch list this week:
· How Not To Be A Political Wife – Sarah Vine
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To paraphrase Randy Newman, you’ve got a friend in me, but for just how long? Especially when you’re Sarah Vine and you’re supposed best friend’s husband is on the side of staying in the European Union while your then husband is all for pushing Brexit through. As Sarah discovered, loyalties are soon divided and what ultimately makes a true friend anyway?
While Peter Hitchens looks askance at the continent and wonders, as Poland lurches to the right with its latest elections results, if the European Union can leave its meddlesome ways behind it and let democracy work for once.
On our reading and watch list this week:
True Grit – Charles Portis·
The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley·
Orderly and Humane – R.M. Douglas·
The Confession – Director: Costa-Gavras·
Berlin Rules – Paul Lever
Presenters: Sarah Vine & Peter Hitchens
Producer: Philip Wilding
Editor: Chelsey Moore
Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini
Executive Producer: Jamie East
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As rampage killings are on the rise both here and abroad, we ask if the long-term effects of drugs are impacting on our societal norms and encouraging a violent recklessness not seen before? As charges for cannabis possession are fast becoming a thing of the past and modern culture embraces increasingly strong strands of weed, is there a case to be made for really doubling down on those who break drug laws or as cannabis legalisation creeps across the globe, we ask, is it already too late?
On our reading and watch list this week:
* Attacker Smoked Cannabis: Suicide and psychopathic violence in the UK and Ireland – Ross Grainger
* The War We Never Fought – Peter Hitchens
* Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence – Alex Berenson
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Presenters: Sarah Vine & Peter Hitchens
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Books, plays and films have been written about it, its onset feared in some quarters, pilloried in others, and it will, eventually, affect almost all women. Though that’s not why Sarah Vine wants to talk about the menopause, but why, in some circumstances, it can be a huge liberation for women; finally freed from being slave to one’s hormones, and that’s just the beginning. So, why, do so many women fear the onset of the menopause?
Plus, Peter Hitchens, is told several times a week (online, never in the street or to his face), how much cleverer his older brother Christopher was, and that Peter should have died in his stead. This used to annoy Peter, understandably, but now he finds these brickbats amusing and interesting, and is left wondering, sibling rivalry, what is it all about?
On our reading and watch list this week:
· Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
· A Series of Unfortunate Events - Lemony Snicket
· The Menopause Brain: The New Science Empowering Women to Navigate Midlife with Knowledge and Confidence – Dr Lisa Mosconi
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Presenters: Sarah Vine & Peter Hitchens
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To Peter Hitchens, the idea of capital punishment (at least at home here in the UK) could make for a country that is less vengeful and, he goes so far as to suggest, even more gentle. Having experienced two executions while working in the US, he knows the power of that final switch and the deterrent it might bring. But is he right, would the shadow cast by capital punishment be enough quell violent crime and those who commit it?
Plus, on a much lighter though no less graphic note, we look at holidays and Sarah’s memories of her dad driving the family home from Rome to West Wales, steering with only his knees, a cigar in one hand, a beer in the other, and music blaring to the point where it made both children travel sick. Childhood holidays, it’s not all sandcastles and ice cream.
On our reading and watch list this week:
· Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
· 12 Angry Men
· The Kraken Wakes – John Wyndham
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Sarah’s two children are currently at university, which is rather handy as a regular listener has asked that Peter and Sarah chime in on the current state of the education system here in the UK. And how times have changed, Peter spent his university years trying to kickstart social unrest, while Sarah pursued a job at The Body Shop.
And as the Union Jacks flutter in the hazy afterglow of VE Day, Peter rand Sarah reflects respectively on their father and grandfather’s service, one at sea in Scapa Flow transporting weapons to Russia, the other fighting in the jungles of Burma.
On our reading and watch list this week:
· The History Man – Malcolm Bradbury
· Quartered Safe Out Here - George MacDonald Fraser
· The Phoney Victory – Peter Hitchens
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Sarah’s brother was at home in Madrid this week when Spain underwent a blackout, alone in the dark with the only the thing in his house still working, his old radio. This week too saw the start of the great switch-off of analogue phones; and just look at the chaos caused by a cyber-attack at Marks and Spencer in the last few days. So, Sarah’s question is this, as we fall under the thrall of ever updating technology, are we going unwittingly back to the dark ages?
Meanwhile, Peter is as reluctant as the average vampire to be seen in the sun, so why, every summer, does he turn the colour of an expensive riding saddle? Tune in for a remarkable, death-defying story of being stranded in Mogadishu and having to flee across the desert to escape. And sunburn.
On our reading and watch list this week:
· The Stand – Stephen King
· Black Hawk Down
· Leave The World Behind – Rumaan Alam
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Not unlike the Rolling Stones, Peter Hitchens is ready to toss his TV through the nearest window. He’s in accord with the late, great Groucho Marx who was once moved to remark: "I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book." Once forced to rent a TV to watch the news before being quickly lured towards shows like Minder, Peter is now wary of the television, to the point he blames it for a lot of the world’s woes. Tune in for that.
And as the customer friendly ad for the Inland revenue insisted, tax doesn’t have to be taxing. Try telling that to Sarah and her circle of friends who have tried and failed to reach the HMRC to query a bill or simply get help. The revenue sent bailiffs to the door of one friend, while another chum had to draw down part of their pension to meet a tax demand. So, here’s the question, why are the inland revenue so awful and insistent on treating people like criminals?
On our reading and watching list this week:
· The Wonder Years
· Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business – Neil Postman
· The Great Tax Robbery: How Britain Became A Tax Haven For Fat Cats And Big Business – Richard Brooks
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Presenters: Sarah Vine & Peter Hitchens
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Sarah Vine wants to bin it off. Though given the decline in public services nationwide, that’s getting harder and harder to do. As the Birmingham bin strike rolls on, the council declares itself bankrupt and rats invade the city’s streets, we ask what the hell is going on with our public services and is this just part of a wider societal malaise? Also, could someone please take this rubbish away?
They were once the so-called lungs of the earth, but as a centuries-old oak tree with “more ecological value than the Sycamore Gap tree” is hacked down by owners of a nearby Toby Carvery, Peter Hitchens asks why we’re chopping down our majestic, sometimes ancient trees and why is it so damn easy to destroy something so beautiful and filled with life?
Also, how do say crikey, exactly?
On our reading list this week:
· The Fifth Estate: Britain's Unions in the Seventies – Robert Taylor
· The Magic Faraway Tree – Enid Blyton
· Tiger Tim’s Annual 1937
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Presenters: Sarah Vine & Peter Hitchens
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Peter Hitchens hates to be blunt about these things, well, not really, but he’d really like to know why the police are so useless. And not in one specific instance or area, but generally. No coppers on the beat, rarely answering emergency calls and heaven forfend they actually bang someone up. What happened to policing in the UK?
While Sarah has spent her week at a wellness centre (don’t call it a fat farm), and while she has returned glowing like a rare gem, she did manage to put some weight on. But did a week of wheatgrass colonics, waddling about and living on liquids take her to some higher spiritual ground? Possibly…
On our reading list this week:
· The Abolition of Liberty – Peter Hitchens
· Broken Windows: The Police and Neighborhood Safety - George L. Kelling and James Q. Wilson
· The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma Paperback – M.D. Bessel van der Kolk
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Presenters: Sarah Vine & Peter Hitchens
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Peter Hitchens puts forward his defence of ‘Whataboutery and asks why does the west delight in attacking its current enemies like Putin for things it allows its friends like Tayip Erdogan to do with impunity? What is it with all this posturing hypocrisy?
While Sarah makes the case for the ancient art of astrology and wonders if we’re looking at star signs for answers as conventional faith is failing us daily. Or, as she puts it, what makes your sky fairy more important than my sky fairy? She may have a point.
On our reading list this week:
· The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby - Charles Kingsley
· The Roads to Freedom – Jean-Paul Sartre
· The Voyage of the Dawn Treader – C.S. Lewis
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Presenters: Sarah Vine & Peter Hitchens
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All human life is here.
Dogma, closed minds, modern slavery, net zero and why Peter will never enter the House of Lords - though he will take tea there – and why you’ll never find letters after his name.
Sarah asks why Labour are pushing for a new deal with China at the risk of human rights violation and why did Margaret Thatcher think you could drive the 5 plus miles from Downing Street to Dulwich – turns out, outriders on motorbikes help.
And both wonder when did the honours system become such an ‘inverted pyramid of piffle’? Word for word.
On our reading list this week:
· HMS Ulysses – Alistair MacLean
· The Iron Lady: Margaret Thatcher: From Grocer’s Daughter to Iron Lady – John Campbell
· The People’s Trilogy - Frank Dikötter
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Presenters: Sarah Vine & Peter Hitchens
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To paraphrase Edwin Starr; work, what is it good for, absolutely nothing… At least according to Gen Z.
Reports suggest that a whole generation might be ready to give up work, which, coincidentally, is how Peter felt every day as a younger man when he was mucking out pigs on the farm, while Sarah’s eighteen-hour days in Hobbs only finally relented when she found herself talking to a drunken sub editor in a pub who was baffled by his new mac at work, just as Sarah had learnt how to use one…
Elsewhere, we take to the seas as Peter asks why our submariners are spending over 200 days underwater at a time and why do we cling to the notion that we need a cold war superweapon like the atomic bomb and what really happens when you try to launch a Trident missile at sea? Nothing good, apparently.
And what tests do you have to pass if, God forbid, you have to stand in for the PM one day?
On our reading list this week:
· Simple Subs Book – Leslie Sellers
· The Silent Deep: The Royal Navy Submarine Service Since 1945 – James Jinks & Peter Hennessy
· The Hunt For Red October - Tom Clancy
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Lockdown saw Peter Hitchens riding through Hyde Park in a Polish gas mask hissing the word ‘virus’ at strangers.
Sarah Vine spent hers in Waitrose checking produce until an outraged fellow shopper saw her return over ripe veg to the shelves and accuse her of spreading ‘covid tomatoes!’. Whatever they are.
Both struggled with lockdown – especially as Sarah was sharing a home with Michael Gove, who was very much behind his Party’s policy to close things down – but, five years later, what did they make of the seismic period when Britain turned out the lights?
Also, Peter asks why the hell can’t the west stay out of other country’s business, unless those despots or dictators can make life easier for us? It’s enough to make cynics of us all.
On our reading list this week:
· Lockdown Secrets – Eleanor Tattersfield
· Catch Your Breath – Ed Patrick
· The Great War For Civilisation – Robert Fisk
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Peter Hitchens is so anti-drugs, and so engaged with his moral compass he won't even consider taking the fictional recreationals, while Sarah Vine has been on antidepressants for over a decade and swears by her 'fat jab’.
This, while Peter dreams of a Dutch like utopia where cars are rarely seen and children are safe to walk to school.
Shall the twain ever meet? Occasionally.
Join them for a conversation that begins by asking is society, sleepwalking into a delirium of self-medication and can end just about anywhere...
On our reading list this week:
The Road To Wigan Pier – George Orwell
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good - James Davies
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Presenters: Sarah Vine & Peter Hitchens
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Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini
Executive Producer: Jamie East
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When viewed from above the North Pole, the Earth rotates from left to right and now some of its inhabitants appear to be headed the same way. From Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy through Geert Wilders’ far-right Freedom Party in the Netherlands to Germany’s AfD party and the ever-encroaching Chega (Enough) party in Portugal, the boots on the ground appear to be facing one way, so are we looking at a new world order that’s suddenly leaning towards the right?
Plus, is war finally over for Ukraine? What is NATO really for? What is the true meaning of power and how do we grab it? And did we finally answer all the questions Sarah Vine’s mum asked of us?
On our reading list this week:
· Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands – Richard Sakwa
· How the West Brought War to Ukraine: Understanding How U.S. and NATO Policies Led to Crisis, War, and the Risk of Nuclear Catastrophe – Benjamin Abelow
· A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle – Julian Jackson
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Presenters: Sarah Vine & Peter Hitchens
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What's the Big Idea?
Finally, Sarah Vine (once memorably described as being ‘like and loathed in equal measure, divisive, but never indecisive’) and Peter Hitchens (a man whose writing a critic was called to compare to a Guardsman’s boot: ‘as highly polished and potentially lethal’) meet once a week to look at the world and mutter, alas…
Acclaimed columnist and journalist Sarah Vine and best-selling author and broadcaster Peter Hitchens discuss and dissect social, economic, and pop cultural flotsam and jetsam that have risen out of the dark waters of that week’s news.
Taking one big idea each episode and pulling it apart with élan, imagine Vine and Hitchens respective columns brought to life and then skewered, scoffed at, debated, and given the full weight of Vine and Hitchens impenetrable gaze. Though an accord might not always be reached, it’s the journey that matters.
Whether it’s the tech bros gone rogue – Meta tearing up its own rule book on fact checking, Musk attempting to influence governmental policy, or the knotty subject on society’s ever-increasing reliance on anti-depressants to treat what might just be the modern malaise and not depression at all. Or, evil, nature or nurture? Does evil actually exist or is it an idea that hangs over us, or do we just sometime embody it and the actions themselves are evil, not the individual?
All this and more are to be pored over, one towering topic each week discussed with humour, insight, and real understanding.
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