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The New Society | culture from the New Statesman

The New Society | culture from the New Statesman

By: The New Statesman
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Your weekly review of culture, life and society from the New Statesman, hosted by Tanjil Rashid.


Featuring interviews with literary and artistic greats, reviews of the latest cultural moments, and in-depth discussion to help you understand how culture shapes society – and our place in it.

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Episodes
  • Munya Chawawa: Trump's presidency is based on WWE
    May 16 2026

    Donald Trump’s political style has often been compared to reality TV - but what if the better comparison is professional wrestling?


    Satirist Munya Chawawa joins Luke O’Reilly to discuss his new documentary, Wrestling With Trump, which explores the connections between WWE spectacle and modern American politics.


    Wrestling with Trump is available to stream now on 4.

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    22 mins
  • William Boyd on spy fiction and the British psyche
    May 9 2026

    What makes someone a good spy? And does the fiction writer, in many senses a professional liar, share the traits of a double agent?


    Novelist and screenwriter William Boyd first explored the theme of espionage in his 2002 novel Any Human Heart and went on to pen a James Bond continuation novel called Solo.


    His latest trilogy (Gabriel's Moon, The Predicament and Cold Sunset) explores what happens when a travel writer becomes entangled in Cold War Espionage.

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    36 mins
  • James Baldwin would be a leading progressive voice today
    May 2 2026

    For decades, James Baldwin has stood as one of the most piercing moral voices of the 20th century, But Baldwin himself has remained, in his own words, elusive.


    A new biography by Nicholas Boggs - Baldwin: A Love Story - sets out to change that.


    Drawing on newly uncovered archives and decades of research, Boggs reframes Baldwin’s life through an intimate and sometimes unsettling lens: love.


    Luke O'Reilly sits down with Nicholas Boggs to discuss Baldwin’s loves and contradictions, the relationship between intimacy and politics, and why Baldwin’s insistence that “love is the only reality” might matter more now than ever.

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    30 mins
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