UnHerd with Freddie Sayers

Freddie Sayers

Booking Overview

An interview-led current-affairs and ideas show focused on politics, science, free speech, and the forces shaping society, featuring prominent academics, authors, political commentators, and other public thinkers. PR agencies can credibly pitch established public intellectuals, researchers, authors, policy experts, and politicians with original perspectives or significant subject-matter expertise; booking is likely difficult because the show regularly features highly accomplished and publicly recognized guests.

Metrics

Episodes: 390

Rating: 4.3/5.0

Estimated listeners: 10k-100k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

euan.dawtrey@unherd.com

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Host

Freddie Sayers - Journalist and editor of UnHerd, the online magazine covering politics, culture, science, and ideas.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high

Typical Credentials:

Established academics, authors, journalists, political commentators, politicians, and subject-matter experts with recognized expertise and a distinctive perspective on major political, scientific, or cultural debates.

Required Achievements:

Published books, Academic or research expertise, Prominent journalism or political commentary, Public influence on major debates

Recent Guest Discussions

Ross Barkan - Zohran Mamdani’s Political Rise, Democratic Socialism, New York Politics, And The Future Of The Democratic Party.

Jonathan Haidt - Children And Social Media, Addictive Technology, Age Verification, Free Speech, And Platform Regulation.

Norman Finkelstein - Changing Political Support For Israel, America First Anti-war Sentiment, Right-wing Influencers, And Podcast-driven Political Commentary.

Recent Topics

Politics, Free Speech, Science, Public Policy, Philosophy

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

UnHerd with Freddie Sayers

Wolfgang Munchau: The AfD momentum is unstoppable

September 07, 2026

Freddie Sayers talks to UnHerd columnist and co-host of The Econoclasts Wolfgang Munchau about the political earthquake triggered by the hard-Right Alternative for Germany’s (AfD) historic election victory in Saxony-Anhalt, examining why young voters and non-voters are turning away from the centrist consensus, the total failure of Germany’s political ‘firewall’ strategy, the collapse of Friedrich Merz’s leadership within the CDU, and how a rising wave of hard-Right governments across France, ...

Kathleen Stock: The scandal of Jason Arday

August 04, 2026

Jason Arday, the wunderkind sociologist and youngest ever black professor at Cambridge, has an almost unbelievable backstory. Overcoming illiteracy and autism, he became the jewel in the crown of the university’s pivot towards diversity post-2021. He has been lauded by celebrities, raised millions for charity, suffered abuse from detractors and found time to run hundreds of miles. Or has he? Kathleen Stock, former professor at Sussex University, speaks to UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers about her vir...

Ross Barkan: Zohran Mamdani is just the beginning

July 21, 2026

Freddie Sayers is joined by UnHerd columnist and author Ross Barkan - a former campaign colleague of Zohran Mamdani - to discuss the New York Mayor’s rapid political rise and the controversies defining his tenure. They unpack Mamdani's anti-capitalist economic policies, his radical stance on Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and assess what his brand of democratic socialism signals for the future trajectory of the Democratic Party and American politics as a whole. Hosted on Acast. Se...

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