Politics on the Couch
By Larchmont Productions
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Subscribers: 140
Reviews: 1
Episodes: 50
Caroliine
Oct 7, 2020
A thoughtful show with good guests. Original and engaging.
Description
Rafael Behr examines how our minds respond to politics and how politicians mess with our minds.In each episode an expert from the world of politics, psychology, history or philosophy joins Raf on our 'couch' to discuss what's driving our political thought and behaviour. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Appetite for Chaos: Why some voters just want to watch the world burn
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May 14, 2025 |
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'Post-Pandemic Politics' – Did Covid change everything? Did it change anything?
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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Five Years: Our Brains Hurt A Lot
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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'The Ideological Brain' – Are Some People Hard-wired for Radicalisation?
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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Red Wall, Blue Wall, Grey Area - a conversation about voter volatility with Professor Paula Surridge
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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'System Fail' - a conversation with Sam Freedman about the way Britain's broken politics can suffocate even the best intentions.
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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‘The gen Z revolution’ - how a student protest toppled a corrupt and violent government
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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Is this what hope feels like? Rafael Behr's reflections on Labour's 2024 victory
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Jul 22, 2024 |
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Going Ape - a conversation about evolution, morality and political cooperation
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May 27, 2024 |
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Doom audit - a conversation with Jonathan Freedland about America, Israel, liberal angst and the unravelling West
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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Moving the needle - Tom Gray of Gomez on swapping the recording studio for the campaign trail, and what being in a band teaches you about politics.
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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'Bonus Couch Chat'
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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'Beyond the Red Wall'
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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'Beyond parody' - a conversation with Rob Hutton about political journalism and its complex relationship with power
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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Trapped! Democracy's struggle to cope with modern life and what we can do to help – a conversation with Professor Ben Ansell.
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May 17, 2023 |
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Kindness - a conversation about political empathy, its power and its limits, with Claudia Hammond
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May 04, 2023 |
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Contrarianism, social media and the future of culture wars - a conversation with Atlantic writer Helen Lewis
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Populism, democracy and the parliamentary battle over Brexit
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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Party People - a stroll around the grassroots of democracy
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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The French Connection - myth and misunderstanding across the Channel
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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'The world's a stage' - politics and storytelling with James Graham
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Mar 04, 2023 |
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Procrastination - the politics of putting off hard choices and why it's so bad for democracy
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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'Putinophilia' - how America's radical right fell for a Kremlin strongman, a conversation with Anne Applebaum
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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'Bregret' - how is Britain coping with a Brexit that nobody loves?
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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Consciousness - a deep dive into the politics of brain science with Anil Seth
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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The authoritarian personality - why some voters feel drawn to populism and how to lure them away
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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The authenticity gap - can Labour seize the post-Boris moment? (recorded the day he resigned)
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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The Megacrisis - how the world's problems piled up - a conversation with Helen Thompson
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May 05, 2022 |
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Is Democracy Rational? A conversation with Steven Pinker
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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Order and chaos - why the left keeps losing
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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Empire State of Mind, with Sathnam Sanghera
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Jul 08, 2021 |
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Radicalisation - how minds go to extremes, and how to turn them back
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May 09, 2021 |
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Fear of Change - Matt d'Ancona on fixing a broken politics
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Mar 13, 2021 |
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Optimism - how we're drawn to the bright side, even in a pandemic
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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Identity – David Baddiel on Jewishness, antisemitism (and a bit about football)
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Feb 04, 2021 |
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Anti-vaxxers – fear, anxiety and the psychology of misinformation
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Jan 23, 2021 |
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Goodbye 2020, Hello 2021: What happens next?
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Jan 03, 2021 |
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'Dissonance Theory' – why no-one says they were wrong
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Dec 28, 2020 |
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Nostalgia - canvassing the politics of memory lane
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Dec 12, 2020 |
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The Madness of King Don - a journey to the dark side of charisma, with Drew Westen
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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Election Anxiety - Trump, the media and fear for American democracy
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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The Political Animal - a breed apart?
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Oct 25, 2020 |
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Brexit and the revolutionary mentality, with Fintan O'Toole
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Oct 11, 2020 |
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Truth, lies and statistics - Rafael Behr meets Tim Harford
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Sep 13, 2020 |
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Farewell to normal?
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Aug 23, 2020 |
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We can log out but can we ever leave? Helen Lewis talks about the trouble with Twitter
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Jun 17, 2020 |
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Trust in the Time of Coronavirus
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Jun 08, 2020 |
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Has Cummings cut through - in all the wrong ways?
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May 27, 2020 |
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How does it feel ? In conversation with Parliament's only politician and psychotherapist
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May 07, 2020 |
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How pandemics affect our political brain
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Apr 11, 2020 |