TALKING POLITICS

S02-EP10 Jim Naughtie with his tales from the primary campaign trail

Is this the wildest election in recent US history?  We ask former Today programme presenter James Naughtie, who has covered every American presidential election for the BBC since 1988, how it's been for him.  He tells us why he's never seen anything like it, and how things could get crazier still.  We also catch up with the fall-out from the UK Budget.  Is the Tory party in real trouble for the first time since the last election?  And is Jeremy Corbyn any closer to knowing how to take advantage?

Coronavirus! Climate! Brexit! Trump! Politics has never been more unpredictable, more alarming or more interesting: Talking Politics is the podcast that tries to make sense of it all. Every week David Runciman and Helen Thompson talk to the most interesting people around about the ideas and events that shape our world: from history to economics, from philosophy to fiction. What does the future hold? Can democracy survive? How crazy will it get? This is the political conversation that matters. Talking Politics is brought to you in partnership with the London Review of Books, Europe's leading magazine of books and ideas.