Podcast

All of the podcasts from The Critic: our weekly podcast, The Critic Narrated, The Critic Books Podcast, and Black's History Week

What has gone wrong in British higher education?

Why are our universities in decline?

Rivers of filth bear our merry band to the grotesque wonders of Dickensian London

Do we have the right to debate where our taxes are going?

How canals retreated into quiet obscurity

Robert Thicknesse, Lucy Lethbridge, and Yehuda Shapiro return for a mind bending and spirit expanding episode of Critical Mash

How British canal boats steamed towards the future

Canals gave Britain a single national economy, one that connected resources, factories, population centres and ports

Entering the golden age of canals

From travelling to trade, how Britons used water before canals