Best David Benedict Podcasts (2025)

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UCONN ATHLETIC DIRECTOR: DAVID BENEDICT 11:36

16d ago11:36

11:36

Rob and Ben are joined by David Benedict who is the athletic director for the UConn Huskies. In this segment they discuss the UConn Women's Basketball winning another national championship last week, the national championship parade that was thrown in the capital over the weekend, the WNBA draft last night with Paige Bueckers being the first overal…

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Bounty Hunters 4:21

5h ago4:21

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The Edition: Chambers of horrors, the ‘Dubai-ification’ of London & the enduring obsession with Diana 36:44

10h ago36:44

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This week: the left-wing radicalism of Garden Court Garden Court Chambers has a ‘reassuringly traditional’ facade befitting the historic Lincoln’s Inn Fields in the heart of London’s legal district. Yet, writes Ross Clark in the cover article this week, ‘the facade is just that. For behind the pedimented Georgian windows there operates the most rad…

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The Book Club: The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz 37:09

1d ago37:09

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My guest on this week’s podcast is the historian Anne Sebba. In her new book The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival, Anne tells the story of how a ragtag group of women musicians formed in the shadow of Auschwitz’s crematoria. She tells me about the moral trade-offs, the friendships and enmities that formed, and what it meant to tr…

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Coffee House Shots: Revenge of the centrists – Carney wins in Canada 13:03

2d ago13:03

13:03

Mark Carney has won the Canadian election, leading the Liberal Party to a fourth term. Having only been Prime Minister for 6 weeks, succeeding Justin Trudeau, this is an impressive achievement when you consider that Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives were over 20 percentage points ahead in the polls earlier this year. Trump’s rhetoric against Canada …

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Women With Balls: Kirsty Wark 29:12

3d ago29:12

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Kirsty Wark has worked for the BBC for almost 50 years and is one of the UK’s most recognisable broadcasters. In 1976 she joined BBC Radio Scotland as a graduate researcher. Having produced and presented several shows across radio including The World At One and PM, she switched to television, and went on to present shows such as Breakfast Timeand T…

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Holy Smoke: What can we expect from the papal conclave? 53:22

4d ago53:22

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Earlier this year Dr Kurt Martens, Professor of Canon Law at the Catholic University of America, joined Damian Thompson on Holy Smoke to unpack what happens during a papal conclave. There was heightened interest in the process due to the film Conclave, which swept the awards season, but also because Pope Francis was hospitalised at the time. Despit…

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Coffee House Shots: John Curtice on the local elections 20:35

5d ago20:35

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Legendary pollster Prof Sir John Curtice joins the Spectator’s deputy political editor James Heale to look ahead to next week’s local elections. The actual number of seats may be small, as John points out, but the political significance could be much greater. If polling is correct, Reform could win a ‘fresh’ by-election for the first time, the mayo…

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Spectator Out Loud: Owen Matthews, Matthew Parris, Marcus Nevitt, Angus Colwell and Sean Thomas 30:46

6d ago30:46

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On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Owen Matthews reads his letter from Rome (1:21); Matthew Parris travels the Channel Islands (7:53); Reviewing Minoo Dinshaw, Marcus Nevitt looks at Bulstrode Whitelocke and Edward Hyde, once close colleagues who fell out during the English civil war (15:19); Angus Colwell discusses his Marco Pierre White obsession…

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Benedict Kiely on Pope Francis and the State of Jewish-Catholic Relations 47:57

6d ago47:57

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The Catholic cardinal Jorge Mario Bergolio ascended to the papacy in 2013. In honor of Saint Francis of Assisi, he chose as his papal name Francis. For a dozen years he was the head of the Catholic Church and a major figure in the moral and cultural life of the West. After a prolonged illness, Pope Francis died on April 21 of this year. There are o…

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The Edition: See change, A.I. ghouls & long live the long lunch! 37:43

7d ago37:43

37:43

This week: the many crises awaiting the next pope ‘Francis was a charismatic pope loved by most of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics’ writes Damian Thompson in the cover article this week. But few of them ‘grasp the scale of the crisis in the Church… The next Vicar of Christ, liberal or conservative’ faces ‘challenges that dwarf those that confront…

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The Book Club: why are Gen Z turning to Christianity? 40:13

8d ago40:13

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My guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is Lamorna Ash, author of Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever: A New Generation’s Search for Religion. She describes to me how a magazine piece about some young friends who made a dramatic conversion to Christianity turned into an investigation into the rise in faith among a generation that many assumed would b…

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Table Talk: Roger Pizey, Head of Pastry at Fortnum and Mason 20:14

9d ago20:14

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Roger Pizey is a baker, chef and one of the most influential pâtissiers in the UK. He started his culinary journey as an apprentice at La Gavroche under Albert Roux before taking on the role of head of pastry at Marco Pierre White’s Harveys, during the time it achieved three Michelin stars. He has since worked at a number of London institutions and…

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Women With Balls: Deborah Mattinson 28:50

9d ago28:50

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Deborah Mattinson joined the House of Lords as a Labour peer in February. Her involvement in politics began when she worked alongside Peter Mandelson and Philip Gould to create Labour’s Shadow Communications Agency for Neil Kinnock. In 1992 she co-founded Opinion Leader Research, and she went on to advise Tony Blair ahead of the 1997 election and l…

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Holy Smoke: Pope Francis dies – what will his legacy be? 29:09

10d ago29:09

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Pope Francis, the head of the Roman Catholic Church, has died. The Argentinian, the first Latin American – and the first Jesuit – to lead the Church, has been the head of the Holy See for 12 years, succeeding Pope Benedict XVI who resigned in 2013. Francis presided over the funeral of his predecessor, who died in 2022 – a first in modern history. B…

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Coffee House Shots: How the Liberal Democrats conquered Middle England 16:46

10d ago16:46

16:46

The Liberal Democrats’ foreign affairs spokesperson Calum Miller, elected as the new MP for Bicester and Woodstock last year, joins James Heale to talk about the ambitions of the party that became the largest third party in Parliament in 100 years at the 2024 general election. They want to overtake the Conservatives to be the second party in local …

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Holy Smoke Easter special: in praise of faithful dissent, a conversation with Nigel Biggar and Mary Wakefield 23:46

11d ago23:46

23:46

The Easter issue of the Spectator includes two provocative articles exploring aspects of Christianity. Nigel Biggar, Regius professor emeritus of moral theology at Oxford University, now a Conservative peer, celebrates the heroic ‘faithful dissent’ of Christian heroes such as Thomas More and Helmuth von Moltke, who lost their lives rather than defe…

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Coffee House Shots: 10 years of politics as Balls bows out 21:05

12d ago21:05

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Katy Balls joins Coffee House Shots for the last time as the Spectator’s political editor. Having joined the magazine ten years ago – or six prime ministers in Downing St years – what are her reflections on British politics? Katy’s lobby lunch partner from the Financial Times Stephen Bush joins Katy and Patrick Gibbons to try and make sense of a tu…

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ANTHONY HARTFORD ATHLETIC 8:41

13d ago8:41

8:41

Goalie talk with our boy in 'PINK'. Hartford Athletic's Antony Siaha joins the show.By Fox Sports Radio 97-9 Hartford

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Spectator Out Loud: Paul Wood, Katy Balls, Olivia Potts, Benedict Allen, Cosmo Landesman and Aidan Hartley 40:06

13d ago40:06

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On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Would Trump really bomb Iran, asks Paul Wood (1:38); Katy Balls interviews Health Secretary Wes Streeting on NHS reform, Blairism and Game of Thrones (8:38); Olivia Potts examines the history – and decline – of the Easter staple, roast lamb (18:25); the explorer Benedict Allen says Erling Kagge and Neil Shubin wer…

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Leon Kass on How Exodus Created the Jewish National Narrative 1:07:47

14d ago1:07:47

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This week the Jewish people is not just celebrating, but reenacting the Exodus from Egypt that our ancestors undertook many generations ago. The complex, ritualized retelling of this story can be found in the Haggadah, the text that structures the Passover’s ceremonial meal, or seder. But of course the defining telling of this story is to be found …

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The Edition: Easter special – assisted dying, ‘bunny ebola’ & how do you eat your creme egg? 34:08

14d ago34:08

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This week: should the assisted dying bill be killed off? Six months after Kim Leadbeater MP launched the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, a group of Labour MPs have pronounced it ‘irredeemably flawed and not fit to become law’. They say the most basic aspects of the bill – having gone through its committee stage – do not hold up to scrutin…

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Book Club: Philippe Sands 57:48

15d ago57:48

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Sam Leith’s guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is the lawyer and writer Philippe Sands, whose new book 38 Londres Street describes the legal and diplomatic tussle over the potential extradition of the former Chilean dictator General Pinochet. Philippe tells Sam why the case was such an important one in legal history, and presents new evidence s…

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FORMER UCONN HUSKY AND WNBA PLAYER :ASHLEY BATTLE 16:50

16d ago16:50

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Former UConn player and three-time NCAA champion, as well as former WNBA player, Ashley Battle, joined The Rob Dibble Show to discuss the UConn Huskies winning another Women's basketball national championship, what the pressure of playing for such a pretigious program on the biggest stage feels like to these ahtletes, some of the Huskies' most valu…

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VOICE OF THE UCONN HUSKIES NETWORK: BOB JOYCE 13:27

16d ago13:27

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The guys are joined by Bob Joyce who is the voice of the UConn Huskies Sports Network, as they discuss the Women's basketball team winning the national championship, the parade that was thrown for them in Hartford over the weekend and a look ahead to the much anticipated WNBA draft with Paige Bueckers projected to be the first overall draft pick!…

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Americano: Trump v Harvard 23:20

16d ago23:20

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Freddy Gray speaks to Peter Wood who is the President of the National Association of Scholars about Trump's decision to block Harvard funding after the university denied the President's DEI demands.By The Spectator

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Women With Balls: Lindsey Hilsum 34:08

17d ago34:08

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Lindsey Hilsum is the International Editor for Channel 4 News, where she has worked for over 25 years. Having started her career as an aid worker in Latin America, she transitioned to journalism, and she has now reported from six continents for over three decades. She has covered many major conflicts including Kosovo, Iraq, Syria, Ukraine and acros…

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Holy Smoke: Was Simeon of Jerusalem the first Christian in recorded history? 27:55

18d ago27:55

27:55

In Luke's Gospel, an ancient inhabitant of Jerusalem named Simeon meets Mary and Joseph when they bring Jesus to be presented at the Temple on the 40th day after his birth. He has been promised that he will not die until he has seen Christ, and as he takes the baby into his arms he utters the words, 'Lord, now let your servant depart in peace, acco…

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Coffee House Shots: Tariff turmoil – the end of globalisation or a blip in history? 16:56

19d ago16:56

16:56

Globalisation's obituary has been written many times before but, with the turmoil caused over the past few weeks with Donald Trump's various announcements on tariffs, could this mark the beginning of the end for the economic order as we know it? Tej Parikh from the Financial Times and Kate Andrews, The Spectator's deputy US editor, join economics e…

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Spectator Out Loud: Petroc Trelawny, Gareth Roberts, Tom Lee, Leyla Sanai and Iram Ramzan 28:07

20d ago28:07

28:07

On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Petroc Trelawny reads his diary for the week (1:14); Gareth Roberts wants us to make book jackets nasty again (6:22); Tom Lee writes in defence of benzodiazepines (13:44); Leyla Sanai reflects on unethical practices within psychiatry, as she reviews Jon Stock’s The Sleep Room (19:41); and, Iram Ramzan provides her…

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JOE FARRELL HART ATHL 14:34

21d ago14:34

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C'MON YOU BOYS IN GREEN! Athletic Kick off vs Indy 11 on Saturday. Joe Farrell #15 joins the boys for a preview.By Fox Sports Radio 97-9 Hartford

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Personal vs. Corporate Brand: Linklaters Nick Rose on who really drives growth in professional services 28:27

21d ago28:27

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In this episode of B2B Marketing: The Provocative Truth, Benedict speaks with Nick Rose, Head of Brand Marketing and Digital Communications at Linklaters, to unpack the complex (and often misunderstood) relationship between personal and corporate branding in professional services. From law firm conservatism to the growing influence of digital-nativ…

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The Edition: Trump shock, cousin marriage & would you steal from a restaurant? 38:44

21d ago38:44

38:44

This week: Trump’s tariffs – madness or mastermind? ‘Shock tactics’ is the headline of our cover article this week, as deputy editor Freddy Gray reflects on a week that has seen the US President upend the global economic order, with back and forth announcements on reciprocal and retaliatory tariffs. At the time of writing, a baseline 10% on imports…

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Dara Horn on Her New Graphic Novel 44:43

22d ago44:43

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Later this week Jewish families all over the world will sit down at the seder table and, guided by the text of the Haggadah, recapitulate in a highly ornate and ritualized form the Israelite redemption from oppression in Egypt. The text of the Haggadah itself is fascinating, not only because of its sources and composition and what it emphasizes and…

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The Book Club: What Is Free Speech? 44:28

22d ago44:28

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My guest on this week's Book Club podcast is Fara Dabhoiwala, whose new book What Is Free Speech? The History of a Dangerous Idea looks not just at the origins of free speech as an idea, but also its uses and misuses. Fara tells me the bizarre story of how he found himself ‘cancelled’, gives us the scoop on who actually invented free speech and exp…

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Americano: has trump stopped the oligarchy? 20:45

23d ago20:45

20:45

Global financial markets are experiencing significant declines following the announcement of new tariffs by President Trump. These tariffs led to widespread panic among investors and sparked debates about their potential impact on the economy. In this episode of Americano, host Freddy Gray is joined by Joe Weisenthal, co-host of Bloomberg’s Odd Lo…

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Table Talk: Gok Wan 25:29

23d ago25:29

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Gok Wan is a renowned stylist and television presenter. Over the years, Gok has transformed the way we think about style and body image with his much-loved series How to Look Good Naked and Gok’s Fashion Fix – his focus on body positivity was the antidote to the crash-dieting fads which dominated the 2000s. Later in his career, Gok drew upon his Ch…

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Chinese Whispers: what does it take to be an 'old friend of the Chinese people'? 37:44

24d ago37:44

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** Chinese Whispers is coming to an end. Later this year, Cindy Yu will be joining The Times and The Sunday Times to write a regular column on China. To stay abreast of her latest work, subscribe to her free Substack at chinesewhispers.substack.com ** The term ‘old friend of the Chinese people’ might seem a colloquial, almost sentimental, phrase to…

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Women With Balls: Katie Lam 28:45

24d ago28:45

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Katie Lam was elected as a new Conservative MP, for Weald of Kent, at the 2024 election. While studying at Cambridge she was president of the Cambridge Union and chairman of the Conservative Association, and she was later a special advisor – first under Boris Johnson in the business unit at Number 10, and then later working on counterterrorism with…

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Spectator Out Loud: Gavin Mortimer, Colin Freeman, Lawrence Osborne, Lionel Shriver and Anthony Cummins 34:10

25d ago34:10

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On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Gavin Mortimer looks at how the French right can still win (1:48); Colin Freeman interviews Americans who have fought in Ukraine and feel betrayed by Trump (11:01); Lawrence Osborne details his experience of last week’s earthquake, as he reads his diary from Bangkok (18:38); Lionel Shriver defends traditional, mon…

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Coffee House Shots: Marine Le Pen – justice or lawfare? 14:04

26d ago14:04

14:04

Marine Le Pen, president of Rassemblement National (National Rally) was found guilty this week of embezzling EU funds to boost her party’s finances. The guilty verdict was widely expected, however her sentence was far harsher than even her strongest critics expected – part of which saw her banned from standing for office for five years, with immedi…

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Americano: Trump's tariffs – madman or mastermind? 28:51

27d ago28:51

28:51

President Donald Trump has announced sweeping new tariffs, including a 10 per cent duty on all UK exports to the United States, as part of his 'Reciprocal Tariffs' plan aimed at addressing trade imbalances and bolstering American manufacturing. This move is expected to impact approximately £60 billion worth of UK exports, with sectors such as autom…

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