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Daisy Dunn

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In praise of Obama’s podcast

Barack Obama has launched a books podcast. Three years ago, this would have been an automatic cause for celebration in the book world. Now, however,...

yesterday 10

The Spectator

Daisy Dunn

Exhibitions / Why artists love Aphrodite

Aphrodite – talk about a difficult birth. Her father the Sky (Ouranos) had come to resent the fertility of his wife/mother the Earth (Gaia)....

tuesday 10

The Spectator

Daisy Dunn

Exhibitions / Why artists love Aphrodite

Aphrodite – talk about a difficult birth. Her father the Sky (Ouranos) had come to resent the fertility of his wife/mother the Earth (Gaia)....

tuesday 10

The Spectator

Daisy Dunn

Exhibitions / Why artists love Aphrodite

Aphrodite – talk about a difficult birth. Her father the Sky (Ouranos) had come to resent the fertility of his wife/mother the Earth (Gaia)....

03.10.2026 30

The Spectator

Daisy Dunn

Should we take Beryl Cook more seriously?

The late Victoria Wood described Beryl Cook as ‘Rubens with jokes’. This was flattering for an artist whose fat, eye-shadowed ladies were more at...

03.09.2026 20

The Spectator

Daisy Dunn

In defence of Thames Water

Perhaps the greatest honour ever paid to Queen Victoria was to have a sewage-pumping engine named after her. Both she and Albert – and the future...

06.08.2026 30

The Spectator

Daisy Dunn

Podcasts / Alexis de Tocqueville’s America has vanished

When Alexis de Tocqueville arrived in New York in 1831, he found a city a quarter of the size of Paris, perched on the lower tip of Manhattan, roamed...

15.07.2026 10

The Spectator

Daisy Dunn

Alexis de Tocqueville’s America has vanished

When Alexis de Tocqueville arrived in New York in 1831, he found a city a quarter of the size of Paris, perched on the lower tip of Manhattan, roamed...

09.07.2026 10

The Spectator

Daisy Dunn

The Odyssey: 'A story of sex, strategy and power'

'A story of sex, strategy and power': How women shape the plot of Homer's Odyssey The epic 2,800-year-old poem – now adapted for the...

08.07.2026 50

BBC

Daisy Dunn

Books / Why should it be shameful to study the Classics?

Daisy Dunn has narrated this article for you to listen to. Mary Beard opens this book with a recollection of her first meaningful encounter with the...

01.06.2026 20

The Spectator

Daisy Dunn

Books / Why should it be shameful to study the Classics?

Daisy Dunn has narrated this article for you to listen to. Mary Beard opens this book with a recollection of her first meaningful encounter with the...

01.06.2026 30

The Spectator

Daisy Dunn

​A charmingly bold food podcast

It takes some gumption to name a podcast History’s Greatest Dishes and proceed to offer episodes on pizza, blancmange, balti, gooseberry fool and...

14.05.2026 40

The Spectator

Daisy Dunn

Radio & podcasts / The first woman to climb Mt Blanc took 18 bottles of wine and 24 roast chickens

The dark side of the Moon, a broken loo and a floating jar of Nutella: such was Artemis II. When Helen Sharman joined the Mir space station in 1991,...

22.04.2026 40

The Spectator

Daisy Dunn

The first woman to climb Mt Blanc took 18 bottles of wine and 24 roast chickens

The dark side of the Moon, a broken loo and a floating jar of Nutella: such was Artemis II. When Helen Sharman joined the Mir space station in 1991,...

16.04.2026 40

The Spectator

Daisy Dunn

China wants robots to look after the elderly

An AI data centre – imagine a factory of buzzing wires and computing equipment cooled by industrial fans – can consume as much power as a city. It...

26.03.2026 30

The Spectator

Daisy Dunn

Radio & podcasts / The problem with books podcasts

The Rest Is History has a new spin-off podcast called The Book Club. If you listen to the former, you’ll know Dominic Sandbrook but perhaps not his...

25.02.2026 30

The Spectator

Daisy Dunn

Radio & podcasts / The problem with books podcasts

The Rest Is History has a new spin-off podcast called The Book Club. If you listen to the former, you’ll know Dominic Sandbrook but perhaps not his...

22.02.2026 80

The Spectator

Daisy Dunn

The problem with books podcasts

The Rest Is History has a new spin-off podcast called The Book Club. If you listen to the former, you’ll know Dominic Sandbrook but perhaps not his...

19.02.2026 30

The Spectator

Daisy Dunn

Radio & podcasts / Three cheers for Poems on the Underground

23.01.2026 30

The Spectator

Daisy Dunn

Three cheers for Poems on the Underground

22.01.2026 30

The Spectator

Daisy Dunn

Was Queen Victoria’s doctor the first psychoanalyst?

13.11.2025 30

The Spectator

Daisy Dunn

R.S. Thomas – terrific poet, terrible husband

18.09.2025 20

The Spectator

Daisy Dunn

Podcasts / The mystical hold of the 1990s over Gen Z

26.08.2025 30

The Spectator

Daisy Dunn

The mystical hold of the 1990s over Gen Z

21.08.2025 30

The Spectator

Daisy Dunn