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Politics Unpacked

Hugo Rifkind unpacks the the politics of the day - and the stuff that's even more important - with the brightest brains from the Times and Sunday Times.You can listen to Hugo on DAB, smart speaker or app 10am-1pm Monday to Friday. If you like what you hear, then read more at http://www.thetimes.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

PMQs Unpacked: Deal Me In

59 mins; February 22, 2023

Got To Have Faith

59 mins; February 21, 2023

How to Talk to Putin

43 mins; February 20, 2023

Do Protests Work?

44 mins; February 17, 2023

Life After Sturgeon

52 mins; February 16, 2023

Sturgeon Resigns

43 mins; February 15, 2023

Gay Marriage: 10 Years On

48 mins; February 14, 2023

Can Sunak Shake Off Sleaze?

42 mins; February 13, 2023

Letters That Changed Britain

43 mins; February 10, 2023

Wacaday with Wes Streeting

42 mins; February 09, 2023

PMQs Unpacked: Zelensky's in Town

48 mins; February 08, 2023

Has Sturgeon SNPeaked?

43 mins; February 07, 2023

Is Truss Right or Wrong, Wrong, Wrong?

38 mins; February 06, 2023

Neil Kinnock: 92 or 97?

64 hours 13 mins; February 03, 2023

Rishi Sunak's 100 Days

43 mins; February 02, 2023

PMQs Unpacked: Rank Pathetic!

56 mins; February 01, 2023

Brexit Q&A

47 mins; January 31, 2023

Sorry, Not Sorry

46 mins; January 30, 2023

Is Parliamentary Oratory Dead?

44 mins; January 27, 2023

Focus Group: Sunak's Pledges and Starmer's Face

40 mins; January 26, 2023

PMQs Unpacked: A Job Too Big?

57 mins; January 25, 2023

The Cost of Dying

57 mins; January 24, 2023

Sunak's Away Day

42 mins; January 23, 2023

How To Make A Party Political Broadcast

54 mins; January 20, 2023

Generation Game

42 mins; January 19, 2023

PMQs Unpacked: Lethal Chaos

59 mins; January 18, 2023

Britain's Litter Problem

47 mins; January 17, 2023

Bring Back Boris

52 mins; January 16, 2023

Lineker: Football vs Politics

49 mins; January 13, 2023

James Graham

41 mins; January 12, 2023

PMQs Unpacked: From Clapping to Sacking

60 hours 0 mins; January 11, 2023

Doctor, Doctor, Shall I Pay You Now?

44 mins; January 10, 2023

Ken Clarke and Paying for the NHS

54 mins; January 09, 2023

Smaller Parties Win Elections Too

45 mins; January 06, 2023

Can The Lib Dems Cut Through?

47 mins; January 05, 2023

Peter Mandelson

40 mins; January 04, 2023

Have the Tories Run Out of Steam?

46 mins; January 03, 2023

Leader of the Opposition: Episode 11

29 mins; December 30, 2022

Leader of the Opposition: Episode 10

22 mins; December 30, 2022

Leader of the Opposition: Episode 9

20 mins; December 29, 2022

Leader of the Opposition: Episode 8

26 mins; December 29, 2022

Leader of the Opposition: Episode 7

28 mins; December 29, 2022

Leader of the Opposition: Episode 6

24 mins; December 28, 2022

Leader of the Opposition: Episode 5

23 mins; December 28, 2022

Leader of the Opposition: Episode 4

20 mins; December 28, 2022

Leader of the Opposition: Episode 3

20 mins; December 27, 2022

Leader of the Opposition: Episode 2

24 mins; December 27, 2022

Leader of the Opposition: Episode 1

33 mins; December 27, 2022

Politics Without the Boring Quiz 2022

48 mins; December 23, 2022

Chorls Dickens Presents: A Christmas Carol

31 mins; December 22, 2022

What is the Funnest Part of the UK?

36 mins; December 21, 2022

Baroness Prue Leith?

28 mins; December 20, 2022

Political Thrillers

36 mins; December 19, 2022

PMQs Unpacked: The 1972 Edition

48 mins; December 16, 2022

Focus Group: The Last One of 2022

44 mins; December 15, 2022

PMQs Unpacked: Nightmare before Christmas?

55 mins; December 14, 2022

Ed Balls All at Sea

43 mins; December 13, 2022

Joe Lycett MP?

49 mins; December 12, 2022

Dear Diary

44 mins; December 09, 2022

Afghanistan: The Forgotten Crisis

40 mins; December 08, 2022

PMQs Unpacked: Strikes and Blancmange

60 hours 6 mins; December 07, 2022

Lessons from the Winter of Discontent

44 mins; December 06, 2022

Sport, Schmoozing and Geopolitics

42 mins; December 05, 2022

How to be an Ex-Prime Minister

43 mins; December 02, 2022

Rayner and Rees-Mogg on Cartoons

41 mins; December 01, 2022

PMQs Unpacked: Trickle-down Education

58 mins; November 30, 2022

Has Britain Got Too Many Dogs?

42 mins; November 29, 2022

Is the Right Alright?

41 mins; November 28, 2022

The Politics of Gogglebox

43 mins; November 25, 2022

Nothing as Ex as an Ex-MP

47 mins; November 24, 2022

PMQs Unpacked: League of Their Own

64 hours 11 mins; November 23, 2022

Who Cares About Corbyn

48 mins; November 22, 2022

Lorraine Kelly Rules the World

53 mins; November 21, 2022

Has The Lobby Lost It?

41 mins; November 18, 2022

Sir Keir Starmer

54 mins; November 18, 2022

Hunt's Tax-and-Axe Plan

49 mins; November 17, 2022

PMQs Unpacked: Duel of the Deputies

45 mins; November 16, 2022

A Reckoning for Raab

44 mins; November 15, 2022

What Next for Ukrainian Refugees in the UK?

52 mins; November 14, 2022

Dick’s Six Decades in Politics

38 mins; November 11, 2022

The Sultan of Swing

45 mins; November 10, 2022

PMQs Unpacked: Bully For You

41 mins; November 09, 2022

Can I See Your Papers Please?

48 mins; November 08, 2022

How do you take on Nicola Sturgeon?

35 mins; November 07, 2022

Focus Group: Rishi's First

47 mins; November 04, 2022

Starmer Speaks, and the Forrest Gump of The Times

43 mins; November 03, 2022

PMQs Unpacked : Who Broke It?

43 mins; November 02, 2022

The Five Disgraces of Liz Truss

42 mins; November 01, 2022

Austerity 2.0

39 mins; October 31, 2022

Too Much Too Young

36 mins; October 28, 2022

Has Starmer got Sunak's Measure?

37 mins; October 27, 2022

PMQs Unpacked 26-10-2022

53 mins; October 26, 2022

Rishi Sunak: The New PM in Town

36 mins; October 25, 2022

Can Sunak Save the Tories?

39 mins; October 24, 2022

Ben Elton

34 mins; October 21, 2022

What A Fracking Mess

32 mins; October 20, 2022

PMQs Unpacked 19-10-2022

45 mins; October 19, 2022

Spreadsheet Politics

61 hours 32 mins; October 18, 2022

Shredding the Mini-Budget

46 mins; October 17, 2022

Kwasi Out

18 mins; October 14, 2022

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