Saint Speaks is the Saint Newspaper's bi-weekly podcast. Our brand-new series Diss-Course creates a diverse form of debate regarding current news and affairs throughout the student community.
To contact our editors, please email podcast@thesaint.scot. We would love to hear from you.
The opinions expressed by guests and hosts in each episode of Saint Speaks are those of the speakers. They do not reflect the opinions or views of The Saint.
Our 2023-2024 season is hosted by Rosie Miller and edited by Natalie Olofsson.
Our 2022-2023 season was hosted by Isabel Loubser and edited by William Finlator, giving listeners a 20-minute digest of news, views, and opinions in the community.
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Saint Speaks is the Saint Newspaper's bi-weekly podcast. Our brand-new series Diss-Course creates a diverse form of debate regarding current news and affairs throughout the student community.
To contact our editors, please email podcast@thesaint.scot. We would love to hear from you.
The opinions expressed by guests and hosts in each episode of Saint Speaks are those of the speakers. They do not reflect the opinions or views of The Saint.
Our 2023-2024 season is hosted by Rosie Miller and edited by Natalie Olofsson.
Our 2022-2023 season was hosted by Isabel Loubser and edited by William Finlator, giving listeners a 20-minute digest of news, views, and opinions in the community.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Should you talk like David Attenborough? What does grief have to do with peat bogs? On this week's Saint Slander, Alexia Heasley and Tasha Currie talk all this and more with Simon Ezra-Jackson. Produced and edited by Natalie Olofsson.
Read Alexia Heasley's accent investigation, 'Lost In Pronunciation', here: https://www.thesaint.scot/post/lost-in-pronunciation
...and read the final installment of Tasha Currie's column 'Serial Griever' here, shortlisted for 'Best Project/Initiative' at the 2025 Student Publication Awards: https://www.thesaint.scot/post/serial-griever-clothes-and-goodbyes
Special thanks to the Ben Shankland Trio for use of their original jazz composition 'Looking Glass'. Here the full song at: https://youtu.be/Pgdhymzq1sQ?si=naRI7U-gCJhD49Dp and keep an eye on their gigs here https://www.benshankland.co.uk/gigs
If you'd like, you can support The Saint at https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-the-saint-st-andrews
The views expressed are the those of the speakers, not The Saint.
To get in touch, email podcast@thesaint.scot
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Who killed the Witch Lake Eight? Should you rip up granny's banana bread recipe? You've often wondered these questions, I know. On this episode of Saint Slander Simon Ezra-Jackson fearlessly tackles both sorcery and baking with Celia Irving and Alden Arnold. Produced by Natalie Olofsson and edited by Rohit Bamane.
Read Celia's gripping early modern murder mystery here: https://www.thesaint.scot/post/who-killed-the-witch-lake-eight
...and read Alden's tremendously eloquent reflections on mortality here: https://www.thesaint.scot/post/some-things-should-die
Special thanks to the Ben Shankland Trio for use of their original jazz composition 'Looking Glass'. Here the full song at: https://youtu.be/Pgdhymzq1sQ?si=naRI7U-gCJhD49Dp and keep an eye on their gigs here https://www.benshankland.co.uk/gigs
If you'd like, you can support The Saint at https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-the-saint-st-andrews
The views expressed are those of the speakers, not of The Saint.
To get in touch, email podcast@thesaint.scot
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Do we need another French Revolution? Should you downgrade to a flip phone? On this episode of Saint Slander, Simon Ezra-Jackson talks these tough Qs and more with Arnaz Mallick, Georges Toulouse and Isabella Checkley.
This episode of Saint Slander was produced by Natalie Olofsson and edited by Elodie Cowan.
Read Arnaz and Georges' debate on 'High Culture' here: https://www.thesaint.scot/post/devil-s-advocate-is-high-culture-the-most-valuable-form-of-art
...and read 'Log Off To Lock In,' Isabella's social media detox deep-dive, here: https://www.thesaint.scot/post/log-off-to-lock-in
Special thanks to the Ben Shankland Trio for use of their original jazz composition 'Looking Glass'. Here the full song at: https://youtu.be/Pgdhymzq1sQ?si=naRI7U-gCJhD49Dp and keep an eye on their gigs here https://www.benshankland.co.uk/gigs
If you'd like, you can support The Saint at https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-the-saint-st-andrews
The views expressed are those of the speakers, not of The Saint.
To get in touch, email podcast@thesaint.scot
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In this episode, Sophia sits down with Dr Petronella Randell, a lecturer in Lecturer in Ethics and Philosophy of Language at the University of St Andrews. After having listened to our previous episode: How to Have a Conversation, with Lula Zeid, Dr. Randell helped us explicate these topics a bit more.
Discussion points include: relative definitions within different speech communities, conflicting definitions of ambiguous terms (Merely Verbal Disputes), how to do philosophy, and truly helped to answer our questions about the philosophy of conversation.
This episode was produced by Natalie Olofsson and edited by Rohit Bamane.
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Does Goldman Sachs have an outreach programme for nepo-babies? What's up with Freemasons? Mrunmayi Kamerkar and Stella Pak-Guénette chat all this and more with Simon Ezra-Jackson. This episode of Saint Slander was produced by Natalie Olofsson and edited by Rohit Bamane.
Read Mrunmayi's intriguing Masonic deep-dive here: https://www.thesaint.scot/post/we-don-t-ride-goats-and-we-re-not-connected-to-the-illuminati
...and Stella's magnificent nepo baby polemic here: https://www.thesaint.scot/post/networking-nepotism-and-the-myth-of-merit
Special thanks to the Ben Shankland Trio for use of their original jazz composition 'Looking Glass'. Here the full song at: https://youtu.be/Pgdhymzq1sQ?si=naRI7U-gCJhD49Dp
If you'd like, you can support The Saint at https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-the-saint-st-andrews
The views expressed are those of the speakers, not of The Saint.
To get in touch, email podcast@thesaint.scot
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Is the DRA Night Bus basically the Titanic? What's the sex appeal of an E-reader? Alex Barnard, Sarah Hassanein and Simon Ezra-Jackson discuss these timely questions and more. Saint Slander is produced by Natalie Olofsson for The Saint. This episode was edited by Elodie Cowan.
Read Alex Barnard's controversial defence of 'Kindle Man' here: https://www.thesaint.scot/post/don-t-come-for-my-kindle
...and read Sarah Hassanein's wonderful weigh-up between living in DRA and In-Town here: https://www.thesaint.scot/post/the-distance-dilemma-drafp-vs-in-town
If you'd like, you can support The Saint at https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-the-saint-st-andrews
The views expressed are those of the speakers, not of The Saint.
To get in touch, email podcast@thesaint.scot
Special thanks to the Ben Shankland Trio for use of their original composition 'Looking Glass'. Hear the full song at: https://youtu.be/Pgdhymzq1sQ?si=naRI7U-gCJhD49Dp
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Twenty years ago, The Saint was a tabloid of dubious repute and St Andrews was a backwater for the dim but posh. How did all that change? And how is Britney Spears involved? William Finlator and Simon Ezra-Jackson get stuck into it.
Read William's magisterial piece on The Saint in the Noughties here: https://www.thesaint.scot/post/a-worthy-and-highly-respectable-student-newspaper-highs-lows-and-halos-the-saint-and-its-arch
Saint Slander is hosted by Simon Ezra-Jackson and edited by Natalie Olofsson and Rohit Bamane.
Special thanks to the Ben Shankland Trio for use of their original composition 'Looking Glass'. Hear the whole thing here: https://youtu.be/Pgdhymzq1sQ?si=QuAoaJovX2HstrV4
If you'd like, you can support The Saint at https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-the-saint-st-andrews
The views expressed are those of the speakers, not of The Saint.
To get in touch, email podcast@thesaint.scot
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Do dreams of ravens flying over a dark forest bode ill? Is there anywhere in Scotland past Edinburgh and St Andrews? Simon Ezra-Jackson wades galoshes-first into these questions and more with Reese Abromavage and Mistral Zerbi. Produced by Natalie Olofsson.
Read Reese's interesting piece on dreams (and Taylor Swift) here: https://www.thesaint.scot/post/the-art-of-dreams
Read Mistral's refreshingly bucolic piece on Scotland's natural beauty here: https://www.thesaint.scot/post/four-years-here-and-you-saw-nothing
If you'd like, you can support The Saint at https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-the-saint-st-andrews
The views expressed are those of the speakers, not of The Saint.
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What do sex and unripe avocadoes have in common? How manipulative is Duolingo? Simon Ezra-Jackson talks all this and more with Maria de Feo and Alex Mcquibban.
Find Maria and Alex's brilliant pieces here:
'My Beef With Duolingo' https://www.thesaint.scot/post/my-beef-with-duolingo
'The Art Of Affordable Indulgence'
https://www.thesaint.scot/post/the-art-of-affordable-indulgence
If you'd like, you can support The Saint at https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-the-saint-st-andrews
The views expressed are those of the speakers, not of The Saint.
This episode was hosted by Simon Ezra-Jackson and produced and edited by Natalie Olofsson.
To get in touch, email podcast@thesaint.scot
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Do St Andreans hold secret sword fights? (Yes). Is dating your academic kids okay? (Hmmm). Simon Ezra-Jackson gets to the bottom of this malarkey with Arnaz Mallick and Truman Cunningham.
Read Truman's spectacular piece 'Bring Back The Duel', here: https://www.thesaint.scot/post/bring-back-the-duel
...and read Simon's piece 'Mind The (Age) Gap' here: https://www.thesaint.scot/post/mind-the-age-gap-students-experience-dating-older
Produced by Natalie Olofsson and edited by Rohit Bamane.
If you'd like, you can support The Saint at https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-the-saint-st-andrews
The views expressed are those of the speakers, not of The Saint.
To get in touch, email podcast@thesaint.scot
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In this inaugural episode, we sit down with one of the co-founders of the 1984, Lula Zeid, to discuss the contextual nature of conversations, how to make them accessible, and the acceptability of answering questions with questions.
The 1984 is a student society dedicated to facilitating intellectual conversations outside of the classroom. They bring curious students together to have unstructured dialogues on an array of topics via a series of debates throughout the year. Our next episode will be with Petronella Randell, a member of the St Andrews Department of Philosophy, to answer questions raised in this episode, and further the conversation.
This episode was hosted by Sophia Pawliw, produced by Natalie Olofsson, and edited by Rohit Bamane.
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Does a "second puberty" exist? Do our Instagrammable holidays hide glum realities? Sunaa Ahmed and Soren Rasmussen are asked all this and more in episode two of Saint Slander. Hosted by Simon Ezra-Jackson and produced by Natalie Olofsson.
Find Sunaa and Soren's brilliant pieces at the links below:
'Puberty: The Sequel', by Sunaa Ahmed: https://www.thesaint.scot/post/puberty-the-sequel
'"The Green Ray" And Reading Week Despair', by Soren Rasmussen:
https://www.thesaint.scot/post/the-green-ray-and-reading-week-despair
If you'd like, you can support The Saint at https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-the-saint-st-andrews
The views expressed are those of the speakers, not of The Saint.
To get in touch, email podcast@thesaint.scot
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Should Keir Starmer ban slow walkers? Should we forgive slow walkers? What nationality of tourist dawdles the most? Sam Spendlove and Simon Ezra-Jackson tackle these pressing questions and more. Produced by Natalie Olofsson and edited by Rohit Bamane.
Find Sam's controversial defence of the slow walker at thesaint.scot/post/ease-on-down-the-road.
If you'd like, you can buy The Saint a pot of tea at gofundme.com/f/save-the-saint-st-andrews.
The views expressed in this podcast are of the individual speakers, not of The Saint.
To get in touch, contact us at podcast@thesaint.scot.
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For our very final episode of the year, we bring back return guest Alex Beckett, Business Editor for The Saint, and brand new guest Ren Smyth, a fourth-year philosophy student.
This episode was hosted by Rosie Miller, produced by Natalie Olofsson, and edited by Ana-Lucia Chalmers.
To get in touch, please reach out to us through podcast@thesaint.scot. We would love to hear from you.
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Putting our best student journalist minds to work, we invite Simon Ezra-Jackson, who studies philosophy and German, and Phoebe Davies, a theology student. We cover the limits of gene editing, why Italy might come for your favourite Italian restaurant, and a long-standing British political controversy.
This episode was hosted by Rosie Miller, edited by Ana-Lucia Chalmers, and produced by Natalie Olofsson.
All opinions expressed in this episode are those of the speakers, not The Saint.
To get in touch, please reach out to us through podcast@thesaint.scot. We would love to hear from you.
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In light of International Women's Day and Mother's Day, we discuss recent reports on equal pay in Birmingham, a memorable resistance to the Taliban through music, and what is next for International Women's Day.
Thank you to Shakeelah Bessell, a fourth-year International Relations student, and Noura McNelis Mahmoud, a third-year International Relations and Modern History student, for joining us today.
This episode was hosted by Rosie Miller, produced by Natalie Olofsson, and edited by Ana-Lucia Chalmers.
All opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the individual speakers, not The Saint.
To get in touch, read out at podcast@thesaint.scot. We would love to hear from you.
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In a topical episode this week on global 2024 elections we bring in return guest Chris Morrow, VP of St Andrews Economics Society, and welcome Janvi Poddar, economics student and part of the university's climate committee.
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The opinions expressed by guests and hosts in this episode of Diss-Course are those of the speakers. They do not reflect the opinions or views of The Saint.
This episode was hosted by Rosie Miller and edited by Natalie Olofsson.
To get in touch, email us at podcast@thesaint.scot.
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In our first episode of 2024, we welcome return guests Jasmine Sykes and Sophia Pawliw to discuss changes in health and technology.
This episode was hosted by Rosie Miller, produced by Natalie Olofsson, and edited by Ana-Lucia Chalmers.
The opinions expressed by guests and hosts in this episode of Diss-Course are those of the speakers. They do not reflect the opinions or views of The Saint.
To get in touch, email us at podcast@thesaint.scot.
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This week we welcome Hannah Shirley and Sophia Pawliw, who share their thoughts on the right to protest, data sharing, and Canada’s controversial automatism clause.
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Trigger warning: this episode involves the discussion of crimes that some listeners may find upsetting.
The opinions expressed by guests and hosts in this episode of Diss-Course are those of the speakers. They do not reflect the opinions or views of The Saint.
This episode was hosted by Rosie Miller and edited by Natalie Olofsson.
To get in touch, email us at podcast@thesaint.scot.
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This week we welcome Martyna Kemeklyte and William Finlator to discuss changes to technology — and the future of policing in the UK.
The opinions expressed by guests and hosts in this episode of Diss-Course are those of the speakers. They do not reflect the opinions or views of The Saint.
This episode was hosted by Rosie Miller and edited by Natalie Olofsson.
To get in touch, email us at podcast@thesaint.scot.
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