Politics Without The Boring Bits
Hosted by Hugo Rifkind and Ed Vaizey and Hugo · Times Radio
4.1from 612 ratings
- 2,049
- Episodes
- 754
- Transcribed
- 612
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2013
- First episode
About Politics Without The Boring Bits
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/ (http://www.thetimes.co.uk/) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- Times Radio
- Category
- news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 11 Jun 2013
- Latest episode
- 6 Nov 2026
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Did Celebrity Culture Enable Russell Brand?
Published 6 Nov 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] But there are people, he had a messianic following, you know, when he sort of left comedy and when he set up his YouTube channel, he was taken off so-called mainstream media. And He did manage to build both a huge following and also a very lucrative business out of being anti-big pharma, anti-establishment. […]
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- Stefan Boscia
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- 4.5 / 5
- 85 ratings
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- 4.0 / 5
- 527 ratings
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- YouTube
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- Engagement
- 97
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Hugo Rifkind and Ed Vaizey and Hugo host the show. Published by Times Radio.
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