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The EditionWar and peace, why restaurants are going halal & the great brown furniture transferThis week: war and peaceDespite initial concerns, the ‘Complete and Total CEASEFIRE’ – according to Donald Trump – appears to be holding. Tom Gross writes this week’s cover piece and argues that a weakened Iran offers hope for the whole Middle East. But how? He joined the podcast to discuss further, alongside Gregg Carlstrom, the Economist’s Middle East correspondent based in Dubai. (01:51)Next: why are so many restaurants offering halal meat?Angus Colwell writes about the growing popularity of halal meat in British restaurants. This isn’t confined to certain food g...2025-06-2642 min
Best of the SpectatorThe Edition: war and peace, why restaurants are going halal & the great brown furniture transferThis week: war and peaceDespite initial concerns, the ‘Complete and Total CEASEFIRE’ – according to Donald Trump – appears to be holding. Tom Gross writes this week’s cover piece and argues that a weakened Iran offers hope for the whole Middle East. But how? He joined the podcast to discuss further, alongside Gregg Carlstrom, the Economist’s Middle East correspondent based in Dubai. (01:51)Next: why are so many restaurants offering halal meat?Angus Colwell writes about the growing popularity of halal meat in British restaurants. This isn’t confined to certain food g...2025-06-2642 min
Best of the SpectatorSpectator Out Loud: Arabella Byrne, Sean Thomas, Mathew Lyons, Bryan Appleyard & Chas Newkey-BurdenOn this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Arabella Byrne on the social minefield of private swimming pools (1:13); Sean Thomas says that not knowing where you are is one of the joys of travel (5:34); reviewing Helen Carr’s Sceptred Isle: A New History of the 14th Century, Mathew Lyons looks at the reality of a vivid century (11:34); reviewing Tim Gregory’s Going Nuclear: How the Atom Will Save the World, Bryan Appleyard analyses the three parties debating global warming (16:07); and, Chas Newkey-Burden looks back to the 1980s nuclear drama that paralysed his childhood, Threads (20:42). Produced and presented by Patr...2025-05-3028 min
Spectator Out LoudArabella Byrne, Sean Thomas, Mathew Lyons, Bryan Appleyard & Chas Newkey-BurdenOn this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Arabella Byrne on the social minefield of private swimming pools (1:13); Sean Thomas says that not knowing where you are is one of the joys of travel (5:34); reviewing Helen Carr’s Sceptred Isle: A New History of the 14th Century, Mathew Lyons looks at the reality of a vivid century (11:34); reviewing Tim Gregory’s Going Nuclear: How the Atom Will Save the World, Bryan Appleyard analyses the three parties debating global warming (16:07); and, Chas Newkey-Burden looks back to the 1980s nuclear drama that paralysed his childhood, Threads (20:42). Produced and presented by Patr...2025-05-3028 min
Best of the SpectatorThe Edition: end of the rainbow, rising illiteracy & swimming pool etiquetteEnd of the rainbow: Pride’s fallWhat ‘started half a century ago as an afternoon’s little march for lesbians and gay men’, argues Gareth Roberts, became ‘a jamboree not only of boring homosexuality’ but ‘anything else that its purveyors consider unconventional’. Yet now Reform-led councils are taking down Pride flags, Pride events are being cancelled due to lack of funds, and corporate sponsors are ‘withdrawing their cold tootsies from the rainbow sock’. Has Pride suffered from conflation with ‘genderism’? Gareth joined the podcast to discuss, alongside diversity consultant Simon Fanshawe, one of the six original c...2025-05-2949 min
The EditionEnd of the rainbow, rising illiteracy & swimming pool etiquetteEnd of the rainbow: Pride’s fallWhat ‘started half a century ago as an afternoon’s little march for lesbians and gay men’, argues Gareth Roberts, became ‘a jamboree not only of boring homosexuality’ but ‘anything else that its purveyors consider unconventional’. Yet now Reform-led councils are taking down Pride flags, Pride events are being cancelled due to lack of funds, and corporate sponsors are ‘withdrawing their cold tootsies from the rainbow sock’. Has Pride suffered from conflation with ‘genderism’? Gareth joined the podcast to discuss, alongside diversity consultant Simon Fanshawe, one of the six original c...2025-05-2949 min
Sober AwkwardIs Alcoholism In The Blood? - With Arabella ByrneDid we inherit our drinking habit and have our years of over doing it been passed onto our own kids?In short, is Alcoholism genetic? It's a question that we get asked by worried ex-drinkers and many struggling with their sobriety about 3 times a week!Just like many of the questions we get asked - we don't feel as if we have the knowledge or experience to offer any kind of accurate answer...which is why we invited Arabella Byrne onto the podcast.Arabella is the co-author (alongside her mother...2025-04-2048 min
Sarah & Amy - The Children of Alcoholics PodcastCoping with an alcoholic mum! with Jen Payne and Arabella ByrneMother’s Day Special: Breaking the Silence with Arabella Byrne & Jen Payne
This Mother’s Day, the Children of Alcoholics Podcast opens up a heartfelt and honest conversation about the complex emotions that can surface for those who grew up with a parent battling addiction.
We’re joined by Nacoa ambassadors Arabella Byrne and Jen Payne—two inspiring women who grew up with alcoholic mothers and are now, in very different ways, navigating motherhood themselves. Arabella is a mum to two young children, while Jen, after years of struggling to conceive, is now preparing to welcome...2025-03-2844 min
Best of the SpectatorThe Edition: massacre of the innocents, saving endangered languages & Gen Z’s ‘Boom Boom’ aesthetic
This week: sectarian persecution returns
Paul Wood, Colin Freeman and Father Benedict Kiely write in the magazine this week about the religious persecution that minorities are facing across the world from Syria to the Congo. In Syria, there have been reports of massacres with hundreds of civilians from the Alawite Muslim minority targeted, in part because of their association with the fallen Assad regime. Reports suggest that the groups responsible are linked to the new Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa (formerly known as Abu Mohammed al-Jolani). For some, the true face of the country’s new masters has been re...2025-03-1337 min
The EditionMassacre of the innocents, saving endangered languages & Gen Z’s ‘Boom Boom’ aestheticThis week: sectarian persecution returnsPaul Wood, Colin Freeman and Father Benedict Kiely write in the magazine this week about the religious persecution that minorities are facing across the world from Syria to the Congo. In Syria, there have been reports of massacres with hundreds of civilians from the Alawite Muslim minority targeted, in part because of their association with the fallen Assad regime. Reports suggest that the groups responsible are linked to the new Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa (formerly known as Abu Mohammed al-Jolani). For some, the true face of the country’s new masters has been re...2025-03-1337 minSarah & Amy - The Children of Alcoholics PodcastI wrote a COA book and paid the price! - Arabella ByrneIn this episode of the COA Podcast, we welcome Arabella Byrne, author of In the Blood, a powerful and deeply personal exploration of intergenerational alcoholism. Arabella shares her journey of uncovering the hidden impact of addiction within families, how it shapes identities, and the path toward healing.
Arabella's memoir shared how her mother and she recovered from alcoholism within weeks of each other, having been caught in a long intergenerational spiral of addiction.
Arabella is also a prolific journalist on issues of children of alcoholics and also an ambassador of Nacoa UK
Join...2025-01-3144 min
Best of the SpectatorThe Edition: migration mystery, Ipso’s trans muddle & are you a ‘trad dad’?
This week: why don’t we know how many people are in Britain?
How many people live in the UK? It’s a straightforward question, yet the answer eludes some of the nation’s brightest statistical minds, writes Sam Bidwell for the cover this week. Whenever official figures are tested against real-world data, the population is almost always undercounted. For example, in England alone, nearly 64 million patients are registered with GP practices – higher than the Office for National Statistics (ONS)'s estimated population of 58 million. Sam argues there are serious consequences for our society at large, including for tax, hou...2025-01-3045 min
The EditionMigration mystery, Ipso’s trans muddle & are you a ‘trad dad’?This week: why don’t we know how many people are in Britain?How many people live in the UK? It’s a straightforward question, yet the answer eludes some of the nation’s brightest statistical minds, writes Sam Bidwell for the cover this week. Whenever official figures are tested against real-world data, the population is almost always undercounted. For example, in England alone, nearly 64 million patients are registered with GP practices – higher than the Office for National Statistics (ONS)'s estimated population of 58 million. Sam argues there are serious consequences for our society at large, including for tax, hou...2025-01-3045 min
Listen to Latest Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Social ScienceIn the Blood: On Mothers, Daughters and Addiction by Arabella Byrne, Julia HamiltonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/734543to listen full audiobooks.
Title: In the Blood: On Mothers, Daughters and Addiction
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Length: 7 hours 25 minutes
Release date: November 7, 2024
Genres: Social Science
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'I’ve never read a book like it. It’s as if they tore their own hearts out and asked the other to hold it for them while they wrote.' Phoebe Waller-Bridge ‘Alcohol flows across families like water over a landscape. Sometimes it moves in torrents, sometimes in floods, sometimes in trickles. It always shapes the ground it cover...2024-11-077h 25
Listen to Latest Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Social ScienceIn the Blood: On Mothers, Daughters and Addiction by Arabella Byrne, Julia HamiltonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/734543 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In the Blood: On Mothers, Daughters and Addiction Author: Arabella Byrne, Julia Hamilton Narrator: To Be Announced Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 25 minutes Release date: November 7, 2024 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: 'I’ve never read a book like it. It’s as if they tore their own hearts out and asked the other to hold it for them while they wrote.' Phoebe Waller-Bridge ‘Alcohol flows across families like water over a landscape. Sometimes it moves in torrents, sometimes in floods, sometimes in trickles. It always shapes the ground i...2024-11-0705 min
HarperCollins PublishersIn The Blood: Interview with Arabella Byrne and Julia HamiltonIn The Blood: Interview with Arabella Byrne and Julia Hamilton by HarperCollins Publishers2024-11-0619 min
HarperCollins PublishersIn the Blood: On Mothers, Daughters and Addiction, By Arabella Byrne and Julia Hamilton, Read by Arabella Byrne and Julia Hamilton'I’ve never read a book like it. It’s as if they tore their own hearts out and asked the other to hold it for them while they wrote.' Phoebe Waller-Bridge
‘Alcohol flows across families like water over a landscape. Sometimes it moves in torrents, sometimes in floods, sometimes in trickles. It always shapes the ground it covers in unmistakable ways.'
In the Blood is a memoir in two voices, those of a mother and daughter both in the grip of the disease that has ravaged generations of women in their family. Julia, aged sixty-five, and Arabella, thirty...2024-11-0103 min
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The Critic PodcastNapoleon Bonaparte: The man behind the mythThis week marked the bicentenary of the death of Napoleon Bonaparte on the remote South Atlantic island of St Helena.
In this podcast, The Critic's publisher, Olivia Hartley, talks to Dr Arabella Byrne, a freelance journalist and writer with a doctorate in French Studies, about why, 200 years after his death, Bonaparte remains such a polarising figure in France and beyond.
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Music: “Modern Jazz Samba” Kevin MacLeod...2021-05-0723 minThe Critic PodcastNapoleon Bonaparte: The man behind the mythThis week marked the bicentenary of the death of Napoleon Bonaparte on the remote South Atlantic island of St Helena.
In this podcast, The Critic's publisher, Olivia Hartley, talks to Dr Arabella Byrne, a freelance journalist and writer with a doctorate in French Studies, about why, 200 years after his death, Bonaparte remains such a polarising figure in France and beyond.
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The Critic PodcastNapoleon Bonaparte: The man behind the mythThis week marked the bicentenary of the death of Napoleon Bonaparte on the remote South Atlantic island of St Helena.
In this podcast, The Critic's publisher, Olivia Hartley, talks to Dr Arabella Byrne, a freelance journalist and writer with a doctorate in French Studies, about why, 200 years after his death, Bonaparte remains such a polarising figure in France and beyond.
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Right now we’re offering 5 issues for just £10...2021-05-0723 min