Best of the Spectator
Hosted by Michael Gove and Abigail Brierley and Michael Simmons and Damian Thompson and Sam Leith · The Spectator
4.4from 217 ratings
- 2,792
- Episodes
- 1,041
- Transcribed
- 217
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2016
- First episode
About Best of the Spectator
Home to the Spectator's best podcasts on everything from politics to religion, literature to food and drink, and more. A new podcast every day from writers worth listening to. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- The Spectator
- Category
- news · news · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 7 Jan 2016
- Latest episode
- 29 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
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Published 29 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Westminster Abbey is a British museum. St. Paul's Cathedral is a British museum. Salisbury Cathedral. All of them. Durham. Durham. All these great cathedrals are really the museums of Britain. They carry our history. They commemorate our dead. They sometimes are the burial places of our dead. And if you wander around Westminster Abbey, you will see a museum of Britain as well as a holy place and the place of the coronation of the kings. You will see Britain, the tributes to our statesmen. and stateswomen. You will see the tributes to our great writers and our great poets, even our entertainers. […]
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- Douglas Murray
- James Heale
- James Nation
- Scarlett Maguire
- Richard Williams
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 3 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.4 / 5
- 214 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 54 / 100
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- Quality
- 71
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 93
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Who hosts Best of the Spectator?
Michael Gove and Abigail Brierley and Michael Simmons and Damian Thompson and Sam Leith host the show. Published by The Spectator.
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Does Best of the Spectator take guests?
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