The Lock In with Jeremy Paxman
Jeremy Paxman, of Newsnight and University Challenge fame, has decided there must be more to life than cudgelling politicians and students on TV. ‘The Lock In’ is, as he puts it, “an excuse for me to talk to people I want to hear from, in a place I want to be...the pub”. So it is that, free at last of any editorial oversight, Jeremy has been sitting down in some of London’s finest boozers to enjoy drink and conversation with an eclectic bunch of guests. There are famous ones and obscure ones, but they all have something to say and we...
Wed, July 07, 2021
Lord Martin Rees
Jeremy sits down with the Astronomer Royal, Lord Martin Rees. As well as being the nation's foremost stargazer, he is the founder of the Centre for Existential Risk at Cambridge, which means he spends a great deal of time thinking about how humanity might face its doom. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
S1 E40 · Wed, June 30, 2021
Toby Young
Jeremy sits down with Toby Young, founder of the Free Speech Union, to discuss cancel culture, free speech, etc. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
S1 E40 · Wed, June 23, 2021
Amartya Sen
Jeremy sits down with an intellectual hero of his and nobel winner, Amartya Sen, to discuss welfare economics, colonialism, higher education, and the compensations of age. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
S1 E39 · Wed, June 16, 2021
Andy Burnham
Jeremy sits down with the Mayor of Greater Manchester and one of Labour's current success stories, Andy Burnham, to talk about devolution to the North. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
S1 E38 · Wed, June 09, 2021
Jed Mercurio
Jeremy sits down with Jed Mercurio, writer of Line of Duty and other hit dramas, to talk TV, police, conspiracies, and writing. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
S1 E37 · Wed, June 02, 2021
Michael Burleigh
Jeremy sits down with Michael Burleigh, a distinguished historian who has recently turned his hand to the subject of political assassination in his book 'Day of the Assassins. It's a blood-spattered thriller of a read, and the conversation covers assassinations of all stripes and from all angles, including the murderers of Trotsky, JFK, Martin Luther King, Caesar, and more. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
S1 E36 · Wed, May 26, 2021
Salman Rushdie
Jeremy sits down with Salman Rushdie, celebrated novelist. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
S1 E35 · Wed, May 19, 2021
Enric Sala
Jeremy sits down with Enric Sala, National Geographic Explorer in Residence. He has dived all over the world and campaigns to create marine protected areas. They talk fish, conservation, the Hebrides, Galapagos, Mediterranean, and more. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
S1 E34 · Wed, May 12, 2021
Andrew Hunter Murray
Jeremy sits down with Andrew Hunter Murray, co-host of the podcast juggernaut, 'No Such Thing As A Fish'. He also indulges in Jane Austen improv comedy, and, more recently, thriller writing. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
S1 E33 · Wed, May 05, 2021
Alastair Campbell
Jeremy sits down with former Downing Street head of communications Alastair Campbell, the real-life Malcolm Tucker and most prolific diarist since Samuel Pepys. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
S1 E33 · Wed, April 28, 2021
Conn Iggulden
Jeremy has a 'drink' with Conn Iggulden, one of the country's foremost writers of historical fiction. On the menu: history, Kent, time machines, the Queen, Pericles, Thermopylae, and more. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
S1 E31 · Wed, April 21, 2021
Sam Lee
This week Jeremy is with Sam Lee, folk singer and Nightingale obsessive. On the menu, everything and anything to do with the greatest avian singer of all. Why do they sing so well? What do they sound like? Why are they so mythologised? Where can you hear them? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
S1 E30 · Wed, April 14, 2021
Justin Maciejewski
Jeremy has another virtual pint with Justin Maciejewski, director of the National Army Museum, former soldier and former McKinsey consultant, and a deeply thoughtful commentator on the military, one of Jeremy's fondest subjects. On the menu: the role and size of the army, military history, the army's pandemic response, poetry, recruiting, outsourcing, and all sorts. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
S1 E29 · Wed, April 07, 2021
Armando Iannucci
Jeremy has another virtual pint with Armando Iannucci, creator of a litany of comedy hits such In the Loop, The Thick of It, Veep, Alan Partridge, etc. On the menu: comedy, writing, Milton, Boris Johnson, much more. Alas, no beer. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
S1 E1 · Wed, March 31, 2021
Jake Fiennes
Jeremy sits down with the conservation legend Jake Fiennes, scion of one of England's most overachieving families. On the menu: birdsong, nightingales, partridges, sward, the future of the countryside, the glories of Holkham, and more. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
S1 E27 · Wed, March 24, 2021
Hilary McGrady
This week it's the Director General of the National Trust, one of Britain's biggest heritage organisations and the custodian of hundreds of our finest castles, great houses and beaches, along with vast swathes of our treasured countryside. They discuss recent controversies over the Trust's vision for the future, its focus on the history of slavery, as well as the plummeting revenues and job losses of the pandemic. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
S1 E26 · Wed, March 17, 2021
Naz Shah MP
Jeremy sits down with Naz Shah, MP for Bradford West and one of the least typical members of Parliament he has ever met. On the menu: Naz's unusual route into Parliament; authenticity in politics; her favourite Tories; empowerment of women; race; generosity of spirit; Hajj; Ramadan; climbing the greasy pole and the Bradford renaissance. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
S1 E24 · Tue, March 09, 2021
Rowan Hooper
Jeremy sits down with Rowan Hooper of the New Scientist, author of 'How To Spend a Trillion Dollars'. On the menu is a hard headed look at how humanity might come by such a sum, and the best ways to blow it in order to better our global state. High on the list of topics: climate change. AI, alien life, curing illness. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
S1 Enull · Wed, March 03, 2021
Eliot Higgins (Bellingcat)
Jeremy sits down with one of his heroes, Eliot Higgins, founder of the citizen spy agency, Bellingcat. From his desk in Leicester, Higgins has embarrassed spy agencies around the world, and unmasked some of Russia's most dangerous professional assassins. He has scooped global news organisations and taken on some of the world's most savage dictatorships. Jeremy asks him how he did it all, and what happens next for Bellingcat? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
S1 E23 · Wed, February 24, 2021
Tony Parsons
Another virtual pint. Jeremy sits down with the writer Tony Parsons, author of many novels, most famously 'Man and Boy'. On the menu, writing, lockdown, getting away with it, resilience, adversity, funeral arrangements, Bowie, and more. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
S1 E21 · Wed, February 17, 2021
Sir William Atkinson
Jeremy sits down with Sir William Atkinson, the superhead who came to Britain from Jamaica at the age of seven, and in a stellar career earned a knighthood, and some fame, for turning round some of the country's toughest schools. On the agenda: teaching, rugby, racism, history, ambition, pubs See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
S1 E21 · Wed, February 10, 2021
David Runciman
Jeremy has a pint with David Runciman, host of the Talking Politics podcast, author, and Cambridge Professor. They discuss the waning public faith in democracy and how it might be fixed. Should we let children vote? Should we make people pass a test to vote? Should we at least try something to arrest the alarming trend of people turning away from the system of government meant to be the worst except for all the others? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
S1 E20 · Wed, February 03, 2021
Sir David Omand
Jeremy has a 'pint' with Sir David Omand, former head of the government's listening, GCHQ, and thus one of our top spies. Topics include the power of rational thinking, how an intelligence analyst would go about buying a house, the need for a devil's advocate, how to keep kids safe on the internet, and how Edward Snowden should have gone about his historic leak. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
S1 E19 · Wed, January 27, 2021
Dr Rachel Clarke
Jeremy talks to Dr Rachel Clarke, specialist in palliative care, about the meaning of a good death and her experience of the pandemic. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
S1 E18 · Wed, January 20, 2021
Helen Pluckrose
Jeremy has another imaginary pint with Helen Pluckrose, co-author of 'Cynical Theories' and participant in the infamous 'grievance studies affair'. Helen unpicks the intellectual history of 'woke' thought, Jeremy is baffled. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
S1 E17 · Wed, January 13, 2021
Andrew Doyle
With pubs still closed, Jeremy has yet another virtual pint with Andrew Dole, creator of Twitter sensation, Titania McGrath. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
S1 E16 · Wed, January 06, 2021
Tom Holland
Jeremy sits down with Tom Holland, one of Britain's best-known historians, to discuss no less a subject than the making of the modern world. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
S1 E15 · Wed, December 30, 2020
Ben Macintyre
Jeremy enjoys another notional pint with Ben Macintyre, a man who knows more about spies than is healthy for anyone. They discuss Agent Sonya, the woman who stole Britain's nuclear secrets for the Soviet Union and almost assassinated Hitler. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
S1 E14 · Wed, December 23, 2020
Clare Balding
Jeremy sits down with Clare Balding broadcaster, rambler, scion of a racing dynasty, and now the author of a book about 'heroic animals'. Topics include racing, dogs, donkeys, anthropomorphisation. Jeremy makes a tabloid confession. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
S1 E11 · Wed, December 16, 2020
Matt Parr
Jeremy enjoys an actual pint with Matt Parr, a former nuclear submarine commander and Rear Admiral, Submarines. They discuss the merits of life in "an expanded cigarette tube, underwater". See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
S1 E11 · Wed, December 09, 2020
Isabella Tree
Jeremy sits down with Isabella Tree, rewilder of the Knepp Estate and author of 'Wilding - the return of nature to a British farm'. They discuss the decision to turn a 2000 acre farm into a haven for wild animals, the first storks to nest in England since Agincourt, and the prospects for beavers, lynxes, wolves, and more. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
S1 E11 · Wed, December 02, 2020
Raynor Winn
Jeremy sits down with Raynor Winn, author of The Salt Path and Wild Silence, to talk about her extraordinary story of loss and redemption on the South West Coast Path. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
S1 E10 · Mon, November 30, 2020
Winter of the mind
Jeremy sits down with mental health professionals to discuss a subject close to his heart: the state of the nation’s mental health. They discuss how it has fared in the pandemic, and what hope there is, and isn’t, for the near future. Participants include Daisy Fancourt, who leads the 'COVID-19 Social Study', a longitudinal study into the psychological and social impact of the pandemic involving over 95,000 adults in the UK; Paul Farmer, CEO of the mental health charity, Mind; Professor Miranda Wolpert, Head of Mental Health Priority Area at the Wellcome Trust, and Marjorie Wallace, CEO of the mental health charity, SANE. Resources: The study Daisy Fancourt is leading into the mental health impacts of covid and covid responses is at www.covidsocialstudy.org Information about the work Miranda Wolpert is doing at Wellcome is here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/active-ingredients-youth-mental-health-story-so-far-nov-wolpert/?trackingId=IgN74vP1TXGolBHc3Ikkew%3D%3D Marjorie’s mental health charity, SANE, is here: http://www.sane.org.uk/ Paul’s mental health charity, Mind, is here: https://www.mind.org.uk/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Wed, November 25, 2020
Mark Criddle
Jeremy has a pint with Mark Criddle, coxswain of the RNLI Torbay lifeboat, who has saved hundreds of lives over many decades putting to sea with the RNLI. They discuss volunteering and bravery on the high seas. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
S1 E7 · Tue, November 24, 2020
Sunetra Gupta
Jeremy talks to Professor Sunetra Gupta, a University of Oxford epidemiologist who has been pilloried for daring to suggest that there could be an alternative response to covid than putting the entire country under house arrest. Yes this is meant to be a pub lock in rather than a podcast about the news, but these are extraordinary times we're living through and it's perverse to ignore that fact, so this is one of a handful of 'off-script' episodes we'll be putting out alongside our regular chats. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
S1 E8 · Mon, November 23, 2020
Lord Jonathan Sumption
Jeremy talks to Lord Sumption, a senior judge and former member of the Supreme Court who has suggested that in its covid response the government has overstepped its legal authority and that the public needs to resist its totalitarian instincts. Note: this is meant to be a pub lock in rather than a podcast about the news, but these are extraordinary times we're living through and it's perverse to ignore that fact, so this is one of a handful of 'off-script' episodes we'll be putting out alongside our regular chats. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
S1 E5 · Wed, November 18, 2020
Brian Cox
Jeremy talks to the actor Brian Cox about reading lines, nationalisation, interment, and more. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
S1 E5 · Wed, November 11, 2020
Richard Dawkins
Jeremy talks to the High Priest of atheism, Richard Dawkins, about the Tooth Fairy and other higher powers. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
S1 E4 · Wed, November 04, 2020
James Rebanks
Jeremy enjoys a robust encounter with the farmer and writer James Rebanks (who puts up with no bull) about the coming revolution in the English countryside. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
S1 E3 · Wed, November 04, 2020
Katharine Birbalsingh
Jeremy chats to Katharine Birbalsingh, the much-maligned (and loved) 'strictest headmistress in Britain', about her controversial Michaela Community School, Black Lives Matter, identity, discipline, and teaching. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
S1 E1 · Wed, November 04, 2020
Michael Palin
Paxo sits down in the Haverstock Tavern for a pint with the former Python and inveterate globetrotter, to talk about such comedic subjects as churches, mortality, and the Northwest Passage. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
S1 E1 · Wed, October 28, 2020
Lee Child
Paxo has a pint with Lee Child, creator of Jack Reacher. Topics include getting high, Granada TV, casting Jack Reacher, and the seductive power of vigilante justice. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Trailer · Tue, October 06, 2020
Trailer
Jeremy Paxman embarks on a podcast. With technical difficulties. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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