Winston Marshall

Seth Dillon – Will Elon Musk ‘Free The Bee’?

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30 min listen

This week on Marshall Matters Winston speaks with Seth Dillon, CEO and owner of American political satire site The Babylon Bee. The Babylon Bee are currently locked out of their Twitter account for a joke that has been deemed ‘hate speech’ by the social media site. But the Bee are refusing to accept this. Seth

Konstantin Kisin on the war in Ukraine

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35 min listen

This week Winston is joined by Russian-British comedian, podcaster and author Konstantin Kisin. Konstantin gives his insight into the ongoing war in Ukraine, the Russian mindset, the potent myth of fighting Nazis and a little on his forthcoming new book ‘An Immigrant’s Love Letter To The West’.

Putin has unified us – Ukrainian rock star turned freedom fighter

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20 min listen

On this week’s episode of Marshall Matters, Winston speaks with Svyatoslav Vakarchuk in Ukraine. Svyatoslav is the lead singer of Ukraine’s biggest band, Okean Elzy. He has also served in the Ukrainian parliament. Speaking to him on the eleventh day of conflict he describes his experience so far, the atmosphere of his invaded country and

Artemy Troitsky – ‘I’m pretty sure Ukrainians will win’

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36 min listen

On this week’s episode of Marshall Matters, Winston speaks with Russian author, journalist and culture and music historian Artemy Troitsky. Troitsky has had a long history of being anti-establishment. In the 80s he was blacklisted by the Soviet Union. But it wasn’t until Putin’s rule that he felt he finally had to leave his motherland.

Tracy–Ann Oberman – Political purity tests in films and theatre

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45 min listen

This week on Marshall Matters Winston is joined by British actress Tracy-Ann Oberman, star of Afterlife, Toast of London, Ridley Road and Eastenders, to name but a few. Tracy-Ann discussed the problem of anti-Semitism with relation to Equity – the trade union for actors – as well as in the entertainment industry more broadly and

Don McLean – ‘The day the music died’

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25 min listen

This week Winston is joined by American songwriting legend Don McLean. Don discusses his work, the atmosphere of America when he was starting in the 60s compared to now, and how he predicted the state of the world today in his all time classic “American Pie”.

When did artists become the mob?

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‘The mob’s going to want a chicken to kill and they won’t care much who it is,’ wrote John Steinbeck. ‘Why don’t people look at mobs not as men, but as mobs? A mob nearly always seems to act reasonably, for a mob.’ I’ve been thinking about those words in recent days as more ‘cancelled’

David Baddiel – is anti-Semitism a blind spot?

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46 min listen

In the second episode of Marshall Matters, Winston speaks with David Baddiel on his powerful book Jews Don’t Count, the experience of writing the alternative national anthem ‘Three Lions’ and his recent stand up show ‘Trolls — Not The Dolls’.

Rip it up: the vaccine passport experiment needs to end

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38 min listen

In this week’s episode: Is it time to rip up the idea of vaccine passports? In The Spectator’s cover story this week, our economics editor Kate Andrews writes about her disdain for the idea of vaccine passports after being exposed to their flaws first hand. She joins the podcast along with Professor Julian Savulescu from

A quiet revolution for our times may have begun

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I’ve been amazed by the response to my decision to leave my band, Mumford & Sons. The article in which I explained why has now been read 700,000 times and has been republished by newspapers in the UK, the US and Germany. My main hope in publishing it was to restore my own sense of