Best Peter Capaldi Podcasts (2025)

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How To Lose Your Country, with Ece Temelkuran (Part One) 37:29

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Temelkuran is a brilliant writer, finding humour, hope and humanity in the darkest corners of our current malaise.’ – BRIAN ENO Ece Temelkuran is the award winning Turkish writer and author who was forced into exile for her critical views of President Erdoğan. She has long signalled the alarm that not only her home country of Türkiye but the whole …

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Liam Howlett (The Prodigy) • Friday Rewind 1:43:12

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emocleW, emocleW, emocleW to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This is your bonus FRIDAY REWIND episode! Today, we catch up with Liam Howlett, originally episode 237 (a 2 parter) from 2018-10-31. Original writeup below: “…I like tension in music… and I think the stage is where it manifests itself…” A rare one right here folks, as L…

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Why Are We So Addicted to Everything? With Nicklas Brendborg 47:07

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Are we living in a world designed to hijack our brains? In this episode, Dr Emma Yhnell speaks to international best-selling author Nicklas Brendborg about how supernormal stimuli have become the norm in modern society. Whether it's food or our screens, Nicklas Brendborg argues that we’re living in an environment that is engineered to keep us hooke…

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Edgar Wright: the man behind The Running Man returns! (The Running Man / Baby Driver / Scott Pilgrim) #644 1:04:48

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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined once more by the phenomenal director and true film lover EDGAR WRIGHT! Edgar is what we call a friend of the podcast. He can come and sleep on the couch at a moment's notice, we'll help him move house, drive him to the airport, whatever he wants.…

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Arachnids in the UK 2:14:09

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Sotheby’s Talks | The Leonard A. Lauder Collection: Klimt and the Art of Connoisseurship 44:24

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On today’s episode, an episode from our friends at Sotheby's exploring the remarkable collection of Leonard A. Lauder, one of the greatest collectors and benefactors of the arts in America. At its centre is Gustav Klimt's celebrated Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer, alongside works by Henri Matisse, Edvard Munch, Vincent Van Gogh and other luminaries …

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Doctor Who: The Time Warrior Parts 3 and 4 - COMMENTARY with Jonathan Wilkins from Titan Comics 1:06:18

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Send us a text and let us know what you think of our podcast! By order of the Great Sontaran Empire, you are commanded to plug in your probic vent, settle down and join us as we recommence our commentary on the classic Third Doctor story, THE TIME WARRIOR with our very special guest, JONATHAN WILKINS, editor of the Doctor Who range at Titan Comics!…

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Is This the Twilight of American Supremacy? Simon Jenkins on Why the World Needs the USA 34:01

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The United States of America is younger than the British Museum and Guinness - in 2026 it celebrates its 250th birthday. How did this vast melting pot of people and ideas come to dominate global politics and culture? Historian and journalist Simon Jenkins believes America’s success stems from its careful balancing of the freedoms and interests of t…

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Olivia Laing on Passion and Heartbreak in the Golden Age of New Italian Cinema 29:48

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Olivia Laing is an internationally acclaimed writer and critic. They are the author of eight books, including The Lonely City, Everybody and the Sunday Times bestseller The Garden Against Time. Laing’s first novel, Crudo, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and in 2018 they were awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction. In today’s epi…

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Helen Chamberlain (Soccer AM / animal rescue hero) • Friday Rewind 1:13:39

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emocleW, emocleW, emocleW to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This is your bonus FRIDAY REWIND episode! Today, we catch up with Helen Chamberlain, originally episode 171 from 2017-10-04. Original writeup below: A real lovely one this week as Pip properly catches up with his old mate and TV presenting legend Helen Chamberlain! "No-…

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Salman Rushdie on Mortality, Memory and The Eleventh Hour 42:57

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Salman Rushdie is one of the world’s most acclaimed, award-winning contemporary authors. Translated into over forty languages, his sixteen works of fiction include Midnight’s Children – for which he won the Booker Prize in 1981, the Booker of Bookers on the 25th anniversary of the prize and Best of the Booker on the 40th anniversary – Shame, The Sa…

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Harry Baker: your poet best friend! (pre-order the new book 'Tender' now / Something Borrowed podcast) #643 1:11:08

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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by the absolute whirlwind of joy and good vibes, the poet HARRY BAKER! A meeting which is also a reunificiation, as Pip and Harry go back a good many years in the scene. Admittedly their time has been separated over the years, but that's the beau…

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Rosa 2:24:48

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What was the Iranian Revolution really about? With Scott Anderson 33:42

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Scott Anderson is a veteran foreign reporter and war correspondent, and a contributing writer for The New York Times. Over his career he has reported from Bosnia, Libya, Palestine and across the Middle East. In this episode, he spoke to host Hannah Lucinda Smith about his new book, King of Kings, a gripping account of the fall of the Shah of Iran, …

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Doctor Who: TARDIS of Terror | An Original Thirteenth Doctor Audio Drama 20:46

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Send us a text and let us know what you think of our podcast! The Doctor and Pandora Darkhill are drawn by the TARDIS to the all-American town of Autumnia, landing on Halloween. The town is full of spooky fun... except for one house shrouded in darkness... Inside, a young man, Samuel, is terrified. But of what..? Something is not right in Autumnia.…

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The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook with Jeremy Hunt (Part Two) 36:48

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We’ve heard enough from the pessimists. Yes, these are hard times, but what investors, business owners and all of us need right now is not more despair about the economy, but a clear roadmap towards growth and prosperity. In October 2025, Jeremy Hunt came to the Intelligence Squared stage to share his vision of how we can achieve economic renewal. …

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The Whovian Review #299- The Moonbase 35:54

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Warren and Michael take a look at this classic story DVD with animated episodes 1 and 3. The animation is stellar, atmospheric, and rather close to the feel of the original episodes! But how does the story hold up with us? A solid classic, a masterpiece, or a dud? Is the Doctor a little demanding? Does Jamie have much to do here? Do the Cybermen en…

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The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook with Jeremy Hunt (Part One) 36:22

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We’ve heard enough from the pessimists. Yes, these are hard times, but what investors, business owners and all of us need right now is not more despair about the economy, but a clear roadmap towards growth and prosperity. In October 2025, Jeremy Hunt came to the Intelligence Squared stage to share his vision of how we can achieve economic renewal. …

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Akala (rapper / poet / activist / author) • Friday Rewind 1:44:23

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emocleW, emocleW, emocleW to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This is your bonus FRIDAY REWIND episode! Today, we catch up with Akala, originally episode 65 from 2015-10-28. Original writeup below: Pip and Akala cover lots in this in depth and honest chat, including the history of racism throughout Shakespearean text, the developm…

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What Are The Essentials for Reimagining Work with AI Agents? 49:21

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We’re only at the very beginning of the AI transformation. The next big leap isn’t just smarter chatbots, it’s AI agents: tools that don’t just answer questions but loop, reason, and complete whole tasks within your workflows. In this episode, journalist and author Kamal Ahmed sits down with Aaron Levie, CEO and co-founder of Box, to explain how a …

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Craig Mazin: delivering script notes and dropping science on the small and big screen (Chernobyl / The Last Of Us / Scriptnotes Podcast) #642 1:14:56

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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by the incredible screenwriter, showrunner, producer and dungeon master CRAIG MAZIN! Craig is a self proclaimed Pipster! Which bodes incredibly well as an opening gambit right there... This is such a treat of an episode which anyone possessing an…

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The Age of the Strongman: Understanding Trump, with Anne Applebaum (Part Two) 32:34

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The morning after Donald Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris in the U.S. presidential election, The New York Times front page declared: ‘America Hires a Strongman’. But is Trump really a ‘strongman’ and is it fair to put him in the same category of leaders as Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping? The Trump administration is already viewed by many commentato…

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The Ghost Monument 1:47:24

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Doctor Who: Masterful Chat with Al Dewar 1:34:55

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Send us a text and let us know what you think of our podcast! Al Dewar joins us again to talk all about the recently released Anthony Ainley Master figure including...N New head scuplts! The TV Movie Master accessory! The recent leak! PLUS we chat about Ainley's appearances on-screen as the Master and hear from some listeners on which of his storie…

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The Age of the Strongman: Understanding Trump, with Anne Applebaum (Part One) 37:39

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This event is part of our Age of the Strongman series. Click here to see the other events in the series. The morning after Donald Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris in the U.S. presidential election, The New York Times front page declared: ‘America Hires a Strongman’. But is Trump really a ‘strongman’ and is it fair to put him in the same category …

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Lyse Doucet on Reporting from the Frontlines (Part Two) 38:36

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As the BBC’s Chief International Correspondent, Lyse Doucet has witnessed and reported on some of the most consequential events of our time. She has reported from Afghanistan since 1988, during the Soviet troop withdrawal, played a leading role in the BBC’s coverage of the Arab Spring uprisings reporting from Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Syria, and h…

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Armando Iannucci (The Death Of Stalin / In The Loop / Veep) • Friday Rewind 49:04

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emocleW, emocleW, emocleW to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This is your bonus FRIDAY REWIND episode! Today, we catch up with Armando Iannucci, originally episode 174 from 2017-10-24. Original writeup below: Responsible for an insane amount of some of the greatest UK comedy since the 90's, including the writing and production of…