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Quiet Riot
Quiet Riot, the politics podcast with more passion, less shouting and lots of laughter
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Quiet RiotQuiet Riot: Midnight Mass - TIM WALZ vs JD VANCE SPECIAL
Alex stays up all night to bring you the quickest, freshest, and most sleepless, reaction to the VP debate between Tim Walz and JD Vance. The answer of who won…
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Quiet Riot POLL THE OTHER ONE – An EU travel special ahead of Keir Starmer's meeting with Ursula von der Leyen
How can Britain begin to undo the damage to our freedom of movement that Brexit inflicted? Well, we could start with a positive outcome from this week's…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot: Sunday School - ISLAMOPHOBIA AND CLIMATE SCEPTICISM ON THE RIGHT WING
Naomi and Alex discuss Baroness Warsi's resignation as a Tory peer and whether that Party is now lost to islamophobia. Plus, why does right wing politics find…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot: Episode 19 - LABOUR CONFERENCE DEBRIEF + FOCUS ON LEBANON w Arthur Snell
Naomi downloads ALL THE GOSSIP from Labour Party Conference - and juicy it is too - before Alex chats to guest, former Middle East diplomat Arthur Snell, about…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot: Midnight Mass - THE LORD, THE FROCK, THE GLASSES, AND THE LOSS OF ALL PROPORTION
Alex goes on a (very calm and reasoned) MEGA RANT about the mass hysteria over a Labour peer giving a make-over to the top team for the election campaign. You…
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Quiet Riot Mini: The Lib Dem deep dive with Monica Harding
Monica Harding is the hard-working Lib Dem who scared Dominic Raab (remember him?) clean out of the Esher and Walton constituency, and has just been rewarded…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot: Sunday School - CAN REFORM UK BE REFORMED?
Naomi and Alex zoom in on the Reform UK Party Conference and consider whether it is possible for Nigel Farage to professionalise the party and rid it of bigots…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot Mini: Poll The Other One - THE MAIN TAKEAWAY
A FUN mini edition of Poll The Other One, in which Naomi digs into the cross tabs and break points of a frivolous aspect of a very serious piece of polling…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot: Episode 18 - EVERYBODY HATES STARMER Live w Rory Bremner
Recorded live at the Radio Academy Festival 2024, Alex and Naomi, along with special guest, comedian and impressionist, Rory Bremner discuss #frockgate and…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot: Sunday School - WINTER IS COMING
Naomi and Alex talk through the weeks news, including the NHS report, winter fuel payments, the OBR report into national debt and immigration. And they speak…
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Quiet Riot – SCOTLAND SPECIAL with Professor John Curtice
Scottish politics klaxon! This bonus episode is a real treat for Quiet Rioters, featuring the insight and wisdom of Strathclyde University politics professor…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot: Episode 17 - DOG-WHISTLE POLITICS
Alex and Naomi, along with wonderful guests Alexis Conran and Simon Radford, discuss the fallout from Trump's "They're Eating The Dogs" humiliation by Kamala…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot: Midnight Mass - HARRIS vs TRUMP DEBATE SPECIAL
Alex gives his sleepless review of the Harris-Trump debate - complete with the best (and worst) clips and renders his verdict. If you can afford to help, you…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot: Sunday School - THE RETURN OF BARNIER
Naomi and Alex review the week's news, including the Grenfell report, Green Party conference, Tory leadership contest, Russia's election interference…
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Quiet Riot – WALES SPECIAL with Will Hayward
Electoral changes are a-coming in Wales, but that's not the only challenge facing politicians in Cymru. It's a country of contrasts, from the rugged scars of…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot: Episode 16 - LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS
Naomi and Alex, with the LSE's Professor Paul Dolan, and More in Common's Luke Tryl, make their way through the news - including the Grenfell report, changes…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot: Poll The Other One - WHAT THE POLLSTERS GOT WRONG
Pollsters got the result and party shares broadly right - the one significant error across the board was an overestimation of the size of Labour's vote. Why?…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot GERMAN ELECTION SPECIAL with Annette Dittert
Alex and special guest, journalist Annette Dittert in Berlin, go behind the dramatic headlines to discuss what yesterday's victory of the far-right extreme…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot Sunday School - KEIR'S BIG EURO-RESET
Naomi (SHE'S BACK! YAY!) and Alex try to look behind a wall of very mixed signals from Labour on the EU. Is there a sophisticated strategy in play? Or a tug of…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot: Night Out - ALIEN ROMULUS SPECIAL
Naomi and Alex review the latest Alien interquel from the London IMAX - and talk about the politics of the franchise, more generally. IF YOU CAN AFFORD TO…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot: Episode 15 - HE NEVER PROMISED YOU A ROSE GARDEN
Alex, Kenny and guest TIME Magazine's Yasmeen Serhan, discuss Keir Starmer's moRose Garden speech, whether the difficulties were predicted or are additional…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot Book Special - OVERCOMING TRIBALISM w Prof Harvey Whitehouse
An enriching and uplifting conversation with Professor Harvey Whitehouse, chair of social anthropology and professorial fellow of Magdalen College at the…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot BLUESKY SPECIAL with Rose Wang
Alex talks through every aspect of BlueSky, from its genesis to how it may look familiar but is a completely different model of social media, to what is coming…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot Sunday School - WHEN WE FIGHT, WE WIN w Brian Klaas
Alex and special guest Brian Klaas, with their 30-minute review of the entire Democratic National Convention - complete with the best clips. Can the Democrats…
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Quiet Riot – Poll The Other One: EU travel and breaking down borders for Gen Z
Is there a glimmer of light at the end of the (Channel) tunnel for young Britons wanting to travel more freely in Europe? This week's headlines hinting at a…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot Episode 14: IT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPID! with Sir Vince Cable
Naomi and Alex, with guest Sir Vince Cable, discuss the lack of policy flesh on the meat of an American election that seems all about vibes. Meanwhile, the new…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot Midnight Mass - DNC SPECIAL Democrats Assemble
Alex takes you through some impressions from the first night of Democratic National Convention, and finds it touching and inspiring. Click here to back Quiet…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot: Sunday School - ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER DOLLAR
Naomi and Alex take you through what to expect from the Democratic National Convention starting tomorrow, discuss Farage's income, declarations of interest and…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot: Poll The Other One - EXCLUSIVE REJOIN POLL DEEP DIVE
Naomi Smith takes us deep into the stat tables of the recent YouGov poll and finds some stunning tidbits, about demographic breakdown and how much closer to…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot, Episode 13 - RIOTS, RACISM, & REACTION w Dawn Butler & Salma Shah
Naomi and Alex chat to special guests Labour MP for Brent East Dawn Butler and former Tory SpAp Salma Shah through the fallout of the riots and how we can…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot Bonus: UKRAINE BITES BACK with Arthur Snell
Ukraine's push into Russian territory took plenty by surprise (though probably not western defence chiefs). So what has changed in the war, and what do we know…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot: Midnight Mass - TRUSK
Alex has boiled down an INTERMINABLE three hours of Donald Trump and Elon Musk, finally becoming TRUSK, into 20 minutes WITH a few comments. TL;DR - there is…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot: Sunday School - IS THIS HOPE, IS THIS HOPE, IS THIS HOPE, IS THIS HOPE THAT I'M FEELING? with Zoe Williams
Alex goes through the week's political events, both here and across the Atlantic, with special guest Zoe Williams. “The Spectator is in a really difficult…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot: Midnight Mass - NORTHERN IRELAND RESPONDS TO THE FAR RIGHT
Why is Northern Ireland the only UK nation other than England where the riots took hold? Alex talks to Belfast MP Claire Hanna, who has seen thuggery in the…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot, Episode 12 - THE FAR WRONG with James O'Brien
Alex, Naomi, and special guest James O'Brien chat about the riots in England, the people who stoked them and now claim refuse all responsibility, and the toxic…
Quiet RiotQUIET RIOT Bonus: SHOULD THE UK BAN TWITTER?
Alex - a former regulator by trade - talks through the issues of social media regulation and the ultimate sanction of banning Musk from having history's most…
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Quiet Riot: Sunday School - PETTY FASH
Naomi and Alex talk about the Far Right riots up and down the UK, the extent to which they are an omen of worse things to come, or the final spasm of a faction…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot - TORY LEADERSHIP SPECIAL with Henry Hill
Naomi Smith chats to Conservative Home's Henry Hill about every aspect of the Tory leadership contest, who are the runners, who are the riders, who doesn't…
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Quiet Riot - Episode 11: The United States we're in – from swing states to the cult of weird
The new buzzword in American politics is Weird, and it seems to be having an effect. Alex Andreou and Naomi Smith are joined by transatlantic academic, author…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot COVID SPECIAL with Christina Pagel
Alex Andreou, in conversation with Christina Pagel and Tom Brufatto, teases out the main threads from the Covid Inquiry Module 1 Report and discusses the…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot - Sunday School: OLYMPICS WOKEY DOKEY SPECIAL
OLYMPICS OPENING CEREMONY REACTION. Alex and Naomi with a bumper edition of your favourite weekly feature, looking at the comically insane and the insanely…
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Quiet Riot - Episode 10: Kamala rising and the arts of politics
A familiar voice returns to join Alex and Naomi – fresh from playing Angela Merkel with the Royal Shakespeare Company, actor, writer and all-round good egg…
Quiet RiotQUIET RIOT Midnight Mass - There is no time to be kind
Alex with a short personal view, on how the treatment of Biden has set back the cause of trying to ease the stigma of conditions like dementia back by years…
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Quiet Riot Special – Bye-bye Biden: Mr President steps back, but what happens now?
Goodbye Joe, he gotta go: Joe Biden has finally done what many considered inevitable, and exited the race to be the next US President. In this Quiet Riot…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot - Sunday School SNP SPECIAL - John Nicolson: Losing your seat is a bit like bereavement
Alex chats to John Nicolson – now a former SNP MP – reflects on what went wrong for the SNP and how to fix it, as well as a wide range of topics, from the US…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot - LIBERAL DEMOCRATS SPECIAL with Layla Moran
Naomi chats to newly re-elected Liberal Democrat MP Layla Moran on the campaign, the stunning success, and what do they mean for the party going forward. Layla…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot - Episode 9: Biden's Stutter and the King's Speech
Alex talks to former UK ambassador to the US, Sir Kim Darroch, about the attempt on Trump's life, JD Vance as a Vice President pick on the ticket, and the…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot - WALES SPECIAL: Gething, Going, Gone! with Will Hayward
Alex chats to award-winning Cardiff-based journalist Will Hayward about Vaughan Gething's resignation and a perfect fifteen-minute explainer of the general…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot: Sunday School - SHOTS FIRED The moment that shook America, with Brian Klaas
Alex Andreou talks to author and politics professor Brian Klaas about the attempt on Trump's life - a moment of violence that is as shocking as it was…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot - EXCLUSIVE: Are the Greens the New Left? with Zack Polanski
Continuing our series of focussed analysis of the general election, Naomi Smith chats to the deputy leader of the Greens, Zack Polanski, about every aspect of…
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Quiet Riot, Episode 8 – French elections, British elections and revolting electorates
This week, your stars Alex Andreou and Naomi Smith are joined by a genuine Chevalier, Olivier Morel, to cast a bemused glance at politics over La Manche and…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot, Episode 7 – ELECTION DAY SPECIAL Bremner, Beard and Miss Fortune
As a General Election treat, Alex and Naomi dish up an all-you-can-eat special with guest chefs Rory Bremner and Zoe Williams. What other show brings you a…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot - NORTHERN IRELAND SPECIAL: A Bluffer's Guide to the Election Result
Naomi chats to journalist - and Norn' Iron political encyclopaedia - Amanda Ferguson who provides the perfect twenty-minute explainer of the election result…
Quiet RiotQUIET RIOT SPECIAL - The Day After with Ian Dunt
Alex Andreou, Naomi Smith, and Ian Dunt do a deep dive into every aspect of the election result and what has followed it. And while you're listening, why not…
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Quiet Riot - Midnight Mass: One more for the road
Naomi and Alex right the world's wrongs, in the wee small hours of the morning. We decided that, basically, Nick Clegg is to blame for everything - among…
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Quiet Riot, Episode 6 – Words fail us (there's a lot of it about)
This week, Alex Andreou is flying solo in the studio while Naomi Smith checks in from the campaign trail – from lots of campaign trails, in fact. Joining Alex…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot - Midnight Mass: The final Starmer v Sunak debate
Alex Andreou and Naomi Smith have a wee-hours chat, analysing the last head-to-head Starmer v Sunak debate. Because we love you and like giving you unexpected…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot - Sunday School: An Embarrassment of Rishi's
Alex Andreou and Naomi Smith chat to the CEO of 38 Degrees, Matthew McGregor, fresh from focus groups in Rishi Sunak's own constituency and talk through the…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot - Fact Check: Nigel Farage on Ukraine and Putin
Alex Andreou fact-checks Nigel Farage's claim that he is some sort of oracle that - alone, among politicians - saw the war in Ukraine coming, that he made his…
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Quiet Riot, Episode 5 – A political farce in three acts
This week, Alex Andreou and Naomi Smith are joined by special guests Henry Morris – he of Secret Tory fame and now unleashing a Shakespearean take on the…