The Ballpark
Hosted by Chris Gilson · LSE Film and Audio Team
5.0from 4 ratings
- 5,796
- Episodes
- 3
- Transcribed
- 4
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2006
- First episode
- 24K
- YouTube views
About The Ballpark
The Ballpark is the LSE US Centre's regular podcast on the politics and policy of the United States. Through features and interviews with academics from the LSE and elsewhere, The Ballpark looks more closely into what's going on behind the headlines.
- Publisher
- LSE Film and Audio Team
- Category
- education
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 4 Oct 2006
- Latest episode
- 21 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
3 of 5,796 episodes have a transcript.
21 Oct 2026
Reforming the American federal republic | Taming polarization: Reforming the American federal republic conference
21 Oct 2026
Power, responsibilities and resources | Taming polarization: Reforming the American federal republic conference
21 Oct 2026
Regional Devolution: pathway or roadblock? | Taming polarization: Reforming the American federal republic conference
Inside a recent episode
Internationale Blues: revolutionary pessimism and the politics of solidarity
Published 17 May 2019 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So blues stretches time. It's flexible, it's improvisatory, it's simultaneously in the moment, it's simultaneously in the past, and it's in the future. And the timeless space of imagination is where the blues is situated. In the blues, Baraka reminds us, quote, the past is also the future. What is nigh is coming. Eve before am. E before AM. The present was here before it was the past and after it was the future. So this brings me to Cedric Robinson's work, and I want to say something about it. So Cedric Robinson wrote, his first book was called The Terms of Order. And in that book, he reviews three concepts of time, linear time, cyclical time, and eschatological time. […]
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- YouTube views
- 23,776
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 4 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 72 / 100
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- Quality
- 83
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 85
- Engagement
- 68
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Questions about The Ballpark
Who hosts The Ballpark?
Chris Gilson host the show. Published by LSE Film and Audio Team.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes bi-weekly, based on its RSS feed.
Does The Ballpark take guests?
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