# Weekend

A podcast by The Guardian. Every Saturday, the Weekend podcast brings some of the best Guardian writing from the week, read by talented narrators. Listen to celebrity interviews, lifestyle features, and opinions from our most popular columnists including Marina Hyde and John Crace. Weekend is the perfect way to relax.

Feed: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/series/weekend/podcast.xml

## Latest episodes

- [Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty: Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1608043151/898b17a40e42) (2026-10-10, 51 min): audio https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2026/10/09-31275-gnl.wknd.20261009.eb.naomi_klein_feed_drop.mp3
- [Introducing Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1608043151/5475a442d54a) (2026-10-03, 53 min): audio https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2026/10/02-54032-gnl.wknd.20261002.eb.feed_drop_weekend.mp3
- [Introducing Black Box: The Chatbots](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1608043151/cf587c9e2a38) (2026-09-05, 40 min): audio https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2026/09/04-33993-gnl.wknd.20260906.eb.WKND_BB_feed_drop.mp3
- [Stateside with Kai and Carter: Why the fight over abortion pills is only just beginning](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1608043151/e14dcaa8e378) (2026-05-23, 43 min): audio https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2026/05/22-44299-gnl.wknd.20260522.eb.stateside_feed_drop_two.mp3
- [Introducing Stateside with Kai and Carter: Stacey Abrams on why gutting of the US Voting Rights Act is ‘evil’](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1608043151/247d0a2a4b16) (2026-05-16, 36 min): audio https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2026/05/15-44684-gnl.wknd.20260515.eb.wknd_stateside_feeddrop.mp3
- [Off Duty: The Crime](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1608043151/2f12480ffa25) (2026-03-21, 27 min): audio https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2026/03/19-38801-gnl.wknd.20260319.eb.off_duty_one.mp3
- [The Birth Keepers: I choose this – episode one](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1608043151/6c51c8842da0) (2025-12-13, 37 min): audio https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2025/12/12-35144-gnl.wknd.20251113.eb.birth_keepers_feed_drop.mp3
- [Missing in the Amazon: the disappearance – episode 1](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1608043151/3142ca09efe0) (2025-06-08, 27 min): audio https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2025/06/08-80666-Weekend_Mita.mp3
- [The brain collector: the scientist unravelling the mysteries of grey matter – an Audio Long Read podcast](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1608043151/b9d2bcbe789c) (2025-04-12, 36 min): audio https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2025/04/11-42936-gdn.wkd.120425.NA.repeat_KERMIT_PATTISON_BRAINS.mp3
- [The mysterious novelist who foresaw Putin’s Russia and then came to symbolise its moral decay – an Audio Long Read podcast](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1608043151/0ae0778e450a) (2025-04-05, 36 min): audio https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2025/04/03-30274-gdn.wkd.050425.NA.repeat_SOPHIE_PINKHAM_RUSSIA.mp3
- [Inside the Vatican’s secret saint-making process – an Audio Long Read podcast](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1608043151/2a9b1b4311d8) (2025-03-29, 36 min): audio https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2025/03/28-41697-gdn.wkd.290325.NA.repeat_LINDA_KINSTLER_SAINTS.mp3
- [Seth Rogen: slacker to studio boss; Marina Hyde on Trump making anywhere but America great again; and Philippa Perry helps with imposter syndrome](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1608043151/92bd862fd36d) (2025-03-22, 36 min): audio https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2025/03/21-40528-gdn.weekend.250322.RP.SethRogen.mp3
- [Actor Michael Sheen on paying off £1m of his neighbours’ debts; Marina Hyde on ‘grotesque’ JD Vance; and ‘how the Beatles helped my autistic son find his voice’](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1608043151/fdfc03e39a5a) (2025-03-15, 51 min): audio https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2025/03/14-55611-Weekend150325.mp3
- [Actor Danny Dyer on aliens and cocaine; the anti-vax parents who changed their minds; and Philippa Perry on feeling unimportant](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1608043151/6e27e76be0c5) (2025-03-08, 44 min): audio https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2025/03/07-71562-gdn.weekend.250308.RP.DannyD.mp3
- [The White Lotus actor Aimee Lou Wood, Marina Hyde on Daddy Musk, and are we over-diagnosing illness?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1608043151/9b2026325969) (2025-03-01, 64 min): audio https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2025/02/28-85068-gdn.weekend.250301.RP.Diagnosis.mp3
- [‘I forgive them for what they’ve done’: Esther Ghey on life after the murder of daughter Brianna](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1608043151/1ba69f048a40) (2025-02-22, 33 min): audio https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2025/02/21-66062-gdn.weekend.250222.RP.Esther.mp3
- [Can Drake come back from Kendrick Lamar’s diss?; Marina Hyde on Starmer aping Trump; ‘I was trapped for 65 hours under 4,000 tons of rubble’; and Philippa Perry on setting boundaries with your parents](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1608043151/16cf738c9837) (2025-02-15, 42 min): audio https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2025/02/14-85753-gdn.weekend.250215.RP.Drake.mp3
- [Marina Hyde on Kanye and Bianca; the woman who lives without money; Roman Kemp on tattoos and mental health; and Philippa Perry on ‘chaotic’ partners](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1608043151/5c225d3a4b9c) (2025-02-08, 39 min): audio https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2025/02/07-84651-gdn.weekend.250208.RP.Roman.mp3
- [Wicked star Cynthia Erivo on fame, fear and fighting classism; Marina Hyde on why gen Z kids are not alright; and the mind/body revolution](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1608043151/383e614b5e1a) (2025-02-01, 47 min): audio https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2025/01/31-63785-gdn.weekend.250201.RP.Cynthia.mp3
- [My mum the family vlogger and child abuser; Marina Hyde on Trump’s ‘golden age’; and Spotify’s Billions Club](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1608043151/bcabb49bb299) (2025-01-25, 60 min): audio https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2025/01/24-77446-gdn.weekend.250124.RP.Franke.mp3
- [Huel creator James Collier on bodybuilding and bullies; Marina Hyde on fawning Trump tech bros; and Philippa Perry’s advice on a dwindling sex life – Podcast](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1608043151/b0b860476c2b) (2025-01-18, 34 min): audio https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2025/01/17-67784-gdn.weekend.250118.RP.Huel.mp3
- [‘How can you rebuild when your father is the worst sexual predator in decades?’: Pelicot’s daughter speaks; and Philippa Perry on the deceptive ‘spark’](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1608043151/26ed9827c7ec) (2025-01-11, 38 min): audio https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2025/01/10-61139-gdn.weekend.250110.RP.Darian.mp3
- [Revisited: a new approach to quitting smoking; how to stop people-pleasing; and why do we have the dreams we do?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1608043151/3b05f90e945b) (2025-01-04, 48 min): audio https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2024/12/24-59802-gdn.weekend.250104.RP.Bestof2.mp3
- [Revisited: actor Jeff Goldblum, eccentric as ever at 71; and America’s top pronatalists on having ‘tons of kids’ to save the world](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1608043151/0adc5573e627) (2024-12-28, 63 min): audio https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2024/12/24-59690-gdn.weekend.241228.RP.Bestof1.mp3
- [Bros’s Matt Goss on love and loss; ‘my father, the serial killer’; Marina Hyde on Prince Andrew and the spy; and Philippa Perry on finding purpose at 80 – podcast](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1608043151/c295b89395ae) (2024-12-21, 51 min): audio https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2024/12/20-70266-gdn.weekend.241220.RP.Bros.mp3
- [‘I never want you around your grandchild’: the families torn apart when adult children go ‘no contact’](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1608043151/7fd62a5b582e) (2024-12-14, 36 min): audio https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2024/12/11-65824-gdn.weekend.241214.RP.Estranged.mp3
- [Revisited: Bafta-winner Jamie Demetriou, unmasking dating app cheats, and peeing: to sit or not to sit?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1608043151/7cb513a5b5db) (2024-12-07, 42 min): audio https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2024/12/06-43399-gdn.weekend.241207.RP.Repeat.mp3
- [The man who caught his catfish; actor Kaya Scodelario on Skins, scares and sex scenes; and Philippa Perry on coping with the climate crisis](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1608043151/4d840ea1278d) (2024-11-30, 43 min): audio https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2024/11/29-68539-gdn.weekend.241130.RP.Catfish.mp3
- [Jacob Rees-Mogg on abortion, religion and reality TV; Marina Hyde on Musk vs Trump Jr; inheritance inequity; and teenage love – podcast](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1608043151/ba540f5ee049) (2024-11-23, 54 min): audio https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2024/11/22-63639-gdn.weekend.241123.RP.Mogg.mp3
- [The truth about dark empaths, why is Britain still so obsessed with the Tudors? And Philippa Perry on overcoming social awkwardness](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1608043151/160691d621af) (2024-11-16, 41 min): audio https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2024/11/15-78588-gdn.weekend.241116.RP.DarkEmpath.mp3
- [‘My lips and cheeks caved in’ – when filler removal goes wrong, Marina Hyde on Trump-based amnesia, and my husband the conspiracy theorist– podcast](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1608043151/599ea4622506) (2024-11-09, 50 min): audio https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2024/11/08-70277-gdn.weekend.241109.RP.Conspiracy.mp3
- [Rob Beckett on dyslexia and dark thoughts, Marina Hyde on the Saoirse Ronan truth bomb, and Philippa Perry on nuanced honesty](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1608043151/9aa05be8052e) (2024-11-02, 35 min): audio https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2024/11/01-63687-gdn.weekend.241101.RP.RobB.mp3
- [Why Rivals is the horny, hopeful show we need, Marina Hyde on Musk’s $1m voter gifts, the secret life of a care worker, and Philippa Perry on lying](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1608043151/ca0af8c4a0fc) (2024-10-26, 45 min): audio https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2024/10/25-63283-gdn.weekend.241026.RP.Carework.mp3
- [Marina Hyde on Strictly’s latest row; the father who lost his daughter in the Sandy Hook school shooting – then faced years of abuse; and Philippa Perry on mismatched sex drives](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1608043151/b37187383594) (2024-10-19, 36 min): audio https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2024/10/18-41081-gdn.weekend.241019.RP.Sandy.mp3
- [Al Pacino tells the inside story of The Godfather, and Marina Hyde on Keir Starmer, the unforced error machine](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1608043151/a5186714d213) (2024-10-12, 43 min): audio https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2024/10/11-59496-gdn.weekend.241011.RP.AlPacino.mp3
- [Heartstopper’s Joe Locke, the mothers who regret having kids, and Philippa Perry on boastful rich friends](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1608043151/e1b8b22e25d3) (2024-10-05, 43 min): audio https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2024/10/04-62443-gdn.weekend.241005.RP.JoeLocke.mp3
- [Marina Hyde on Al Fayed and Diddy’s enablers, the hidden life of Elizabeth Taylor, and Philippa Perry on embracing anger](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1608043151/82143adf534c) (2024-09-28, 44 min): audio https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2024/09/27-40250-gdn.weekend.240928.RP.LizTaylor.mp3
- [Janet Jackson on Michael and motherhood, Friends at 30, and Marina Hyde on the real ‘enigma’ about Charlotte Owen](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1608043151/cf44cf6a71e2) (2024-09-21, 57 min): audio https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2024/09/20-48957-gdn.weekend.240921.SG.Episode.mp3
- [Best of Weekend part 2: Louis Theroux, a late life gender transition, and is it murder if you’re asleep?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1608043151/23fc4610de90) (2024-09-14, 48 min): audio https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2024/08/23-36775-gdn.weekend.240914.RP.Bestof2.mp3
- [Grenfell: System Failure – Scenes from the Inquiry (part 2)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1608043151/8105d38d3f19) (2024-09-08, 67 min): audio https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2024/09/03-54234-gdn.weekend.240908.RP.Grenfellpart2.mp3
- [Grenfell: System Failure – Scenes from the Inquiry (part 1)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1608043151/9e977a2721be) (2024-09-08, 58 min): audio https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2024/09/06-54024-gdn.weekend.240908.EB.Grenfellpart1.mp3
- [Best of Weekend part 1: Julia Fox, are we to blame for our bad habits? And surviving a ship wreck](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1608043151/fdbf8440b433) (2024-09-07, 47 min): audio https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2024/08/23-36442-gdn.weekend.240907.RP.Bestof1.mp3
- [Actor Michael Sheen on leaving Los Angeles, presenter Alison Hammond’s rise to fame, and Philippa Perry on empty-nest syndrome](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1608043151/b5c5a4fc345a) (2024-08-31, 60 min): audio https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2024/08/30-37051-Weekend31Aug.mp3
- [Actor Gillian Anderson on female desire, singer Chappell Roan’s slow and steady rise, and how to stop people-pleasing](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1608043151/6ad8cf698234) (2024-08-24, 46 min): audio https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2024/08/23-31874-gdn.weekend.240824.RP.GillianA.mp3
- [Growing up in a utopian commune - and the dangers that came with it; Marina Hyde on the Trump-Musk interview; and the power of embracing selfishness](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1608043151/3fc684ac1d72) (2024-08-17, 47 min): audio https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2024/08/16-36494-gdn.weekend.240817.RP.Commune.mp3
- [Marina Hyde on the ‘brave’ inciters of Britain’s race riots; lightning struck my plane and I plunged 3,000m; the delights of the dead hang](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1608043151/bfe44a596a7a) (2024-08-10, 33 min): audio https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2024/08/09-28989-gdn.weekend.240810.RP.Hang.mp3
- [Jeff Goldblum, eccentric as ever at 71; the fallacy of ‘tradwives’; and ‘My dying wife found me a girlfriend’](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1608043151/b5c7805b00c6) (2024-08-03, 49 min): audio https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2024/08/02-60912-gdn.weekend.240802.JeffG.mp3
- [Bullied, belittled but indisputably brilliant: how Victoria Pendleton became a cycling legend; and what’s missing from Twisters?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1608043151/b9fd5cbdee47) (2024-07-27, 41 min): audio https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2024/07/26-35626-gdn.weekend.240727.jb.twisters_pendleton.mp3
- [Is this the Brat girl summer? Marina Hyde predicts a sticky end for Trump-Vance, how to be a Norwegian parent, and Ask Philippa on sibling rivalry](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1608043151/ccdd353c2ec6) (2024-07-20, 48 min): audio https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2024/07/19-59942-gdn.weekend.240720.RP.Brat.mp3
- [Marina Hyde’s career advice for Joe Biden, the world’s smallest stuntman, Philippa Perry on ‘failure’, and could you forgive your childhood bully?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1608043151/46066d04dd87) (2024-07-13, 47 min): audio https://flex.acast.com/audio.guim.co.uk/2024/07/12-62475-gdn.weekend.240712.RP.Biden.mp3

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