The New Statesman Podcast

Welcome to the New Statesman podcast. Every week, we'll be bringing you our signature mix of opinion, features, reviews and humour. 

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Episode Six - download here

In this week's podcast George Eaton and Rafel Behr talk about the failure of David Cameron's modernisation project, Holly Baxter (from the Vagenda) talks about the most important issues facing modern feminism, Sophie Elmhirst and Philip Maughan talk about the return of American novelist James Salter, and Alex Hern explains all you need to know about Tumblr and Yahoo.

Episode Five - download here

Rafael Behr, George Eaton and the Spectator's Isabel Hardman talk about the future of the Tory party, Helen Lewis and Felicity Coake discuss this week's feature on the politics of fatness, and resident young person Alex Hern says "space" a lot.

Episode Four - download here

Featuring George Eaton and Rafael Behr discussing the future of the Liberal Democrats, Sophie Elmhirst speaking to human geographer Danny Dorling about social mobility, Laurie Penny's visit to Iceland to meet the Pirate Party and Jonathan Derbyshire talking books for the last time.

Special Episode: Local Elections preview - download here

Will Ukip break through? Can Labour stay on course? Are the Lib Dems going to be annihilated? In this special episode, NS political correspondents Rafael Behr and George Eaton talk to Helen Lewis about the upcoming local elections.

Episode Three - download here

On this week's podcast, our political correspondents Rafael Behr and George Eaton discuss the fallout from the Unite leader Len McCluskey's warning to Ed Miliband that he must avoid seduction by the "Blairites", Helen Lewis talks to tattoo historian Matt Lodder to ask whether a tattoo will ever hand in the Louvre, Jonathan Derbyshire and Philip Maughan discuss our Spring Books special, Nicky Woolf recalls his time in Hicksville, Ohio, the "crucible" of the 2012 US election and Alex Hern explains the role that Reddit played in the hunt for the Boston Bombers.

Special Episode: Did the Left win the 20th century? - download here

As part of the New Statesman's Centenary Debates series, on 18 April the NS held a debate with the motion "This house believes the left won the 20th century". Speaking for the motion were NS deputy editor Helen Lewis, author and columnist Simon Heffer, and NS contributing writer and Huffington Post political director Mehdi Hasan. Opposing were Times comment editor Tim Montgomerie, Institute of Economic Affairs communications director Ruth Porter, and Independent columnist Owen Jones. The chair was New Statesman editor Jason Cowley.

Episode Two: The Centenary Special - download here

In a special bumper hour-long episode, we celebrate a hundred years of the New Statesman. Rafael Behr and George Eaton discuss Thatcher's legacy, Philip Maughan and Jonathan Derbyshire take a trip into the magazine's archives, Daniel Trilling, Yiannis Baboulias and Laurie Penny talk about the reaction to austerity in Europe, Will Self makes the case for a pessimistic world view, Helen Lewis and Sophie Elmhirst discuss the magazine's relationship with poetry, we decide whether or not the Left won the 20th century, and Alex Hern tells you what Bitcoin is.

Special episode: The New Statesman Feminism debate - download here

What is the most important issue facing feminism today? New Statesman writers Helen Lewis, Laurie Penny, Bim Adewunmi, Juliet Jacques, Victoria Smith, Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett and Holly Baxter came together at Conway Hall in London on 4 April 2013 to debate it. Chaired by New Statesman web editor Caroline Crampton, the debate and the audience question session is here in full for podcast listeners to enjoy.

Episode One: The First One - download here

The first ever episode of the New Statesman podcast, featuring political analysis, cultural reviews, interviews and more. In our first audio outing, George Eaton talks about Iain Duncan Smith and welfare cuts, Rafael Behr stares into the dark heart of the Conservative Party, Alex Hern talks to the Guardian's Aditya Chakrabortty about the future of the internet, Jonathan Derbyshire and Philip Maughan talk about books, Helen Lewis and Caroline Crampton think on the future of feminism, and much, much more.