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Alas Vine & Hitchens

Alas Vine & Hitchens

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What's the Big Idea? Finally, Sarah Vine (once memorably described as being ‘like and loathed in equal measure, divisive, but never indecisive’) and Peter Hitchens (a man whose writing a critic was called to compare to a Guardsman’s boot: ‘as highly polished and potentially lethal’) meet once a week to look at the world and mutter, alas… Acclaimed columnist and journalist Sarah Vine and best-selling author and broadcaster Peter Hitchens discuss and dissect social, economic, and pop cultural flotsam and jetsam that have risen out of the dark waters of that week’s news.


Taking one big idea each episode and pulling it apart with élan, imagine Vine and Hitchens respective columns brought to life and then skewered, scoffed at, debated, and given the full weight of Vine and Hitchens impenetrable gaze. Though an accord might not always be reached, it’s the journey that matters.


Whether it’s the tech bros gone rogue – Meta tearing up its own rule book on fact checking, Musk attempting to influence governmental policy, or the knotty subject on society’s ever-increasing reliance on anti-depressants to treat what might just be the modern malaise and not depression at all. Or, evil, nature or nurture? Does evil actually exist or is it an idea that hangs over us, or do we just sometime embody it and the actions themselves are evil, not the individual? All this and more are to be pored over, one towering topic each week discussed with humour, insight, and real understanding.

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    • Gisele Pelicot and Performative Policing

      Gisele Pelicot and Performative Policing
      Feb 25 2026

      On this week’s episode, Sarah is asking if the horrendous case of Gisele Pelicot is more than just an isolated incident and Peter wants to know why our boys in blue have settled on performative policing.

      Plus, why has it taken Sarah over a year to realise she’s been wearing her contact lenses in the wrong eyes? The parlous state of children’s fiction in the modern age and why Peter will be getting a motorbike (and leather biker jacket) as soon as he reaches eighty.



      On our reading and watch list this week:

      · A Hymn to Life: Shame Has To Change Sides - Gisele Pelicot

      · Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell

      · The Bonfire Of The Vanities – Tom Wolfe

      · Never Trust Dragons – Sheila K. McCullagh


      Please do get in touch, email: Alas@dailymail.co.uk you can leave a comment on Spotify or even send us a voice note on Whatsapp – on 07796 657512, start your message with the word ‘alas’.

      Presenters: Sarah Vine & Peter Hitchens

      Producer: Philip Wilding

      Editor: Chelsey Moore

      Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini

      Executive Producer: Jamie East

      A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular

      To get in touch email alas@mailonline.co.uk, you can leave a comment on Spotify or even send us a voice note on WhatsApp - on 07796 657512 start your message with the word 'alas'


      Presenters: Sarah Vine & Peter Hitchens

      Producer: Phillip Wilding

      Editor: Chelsey Moore

      Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini

      Executive Producer: Jamie East


      A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular

      Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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      34 min
    • End E-Bikes and Anti-Vaxxers

      End E-Bikes and Anti-Vaxxers
      Feb 18 2026

      On this week’s episode, Peter will be asking when new legislation to curb the plague of e-bikes on our streets will finally come into effect. And Sarah wants to know why parents are opting NOT to vaccinate their children against measles.

      Plus, how being bullied in school can change you for ever. Football and flag flying, something neither of our presenters can really get behind. The right to bear arms in the UK, or maybe not. And the joys of driving a steam train, sadly, this is not yet Peter’s story.


      On our reading and watch list this week:

      · Heathers – Dir: Michael Lehmann

      · The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

      · A Brief History Of Crime - Peter Hitchens

      · Clueless – Dir: Amy Heckerling

      Please do get in touch, email: Alas@dailymail.co.uk you can leave a comment on Spotify or even send us a voice note on Whatsapp – on 07796 657512, start your message with the word ‘alas’.

      Presenters: Sarah Vine & Peter Hitchens

      Producer: Philip Wilding

      Editor: Chelsey Moore

      Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini

      Executive Producer: Jamie East

      A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular



      To get in touch email alas@mailonline.co.uk, you can leave a comment on Spotify or even send us a voice note on WhatsApp - on 07796 657512 start your message with the word 'alas'


      Presenters: Sarah Vine & Peter Hitchens

      Producer: Phillip Wilding

      Editor: Chelsey Moore

      Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini

      Executive Producer: Jamie East


      A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular

      Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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      44 min
    • The UK’s Risible Reading Age and Bloody Books

      The UK’s Risible Reading Age and Bloody Books
      Feb 11 2026

      On this week’s episode, Sarah is asking is the English literature curriculum really being dumbed down or are we simply not reading as a country anymore or simply shifting our allegiance to audiobooks? And Peter, as if to prove otherwise, will be bandying a copy of Lord of the Flies around and poring over the latest BBC adaptation.

      Plus, why was Stephen Fry stalking Peter at a memorial for his late brother? Why we should eat even if the Queen has done with her meal, royal protocol be damned! Why neither wants a coat of arms, divorce etiquette and why the Suez Crisis reminds Peter of his father getting on his bike.


      On our reading and watch list this week:

      · The Phantom Tollbooth – Norton Juster

      · Lord Of The Flies – William Golding

      · A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess

      · The Box Of Delights - John Masefield

      · Our Man in Havana – Graham Greene

      · Heart Of Darkness – Joseph Conrad


      Please do get in touch, email: Alas@dailymail.co.uk you can leave a comment on Spotify or even send us a voice note on Whatsapp – on 07796 657512, start your message with the word ‘alas’.



      Presenters: Sarah Vine & Peter Hitchens

      Producer: Philip Wilding

      Editor: Chelsey Moore

      Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini

      Executive Producer: Jamie East


      A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular



      To get in touch email alas@mailonline.co.uk, you can leave a comment on Spotify or even send us a voice note on WhatsApp - on 07796 657512 start your message with the word 'alas'


      Presenters: Sarah Vine & Peter Hitchens

      Producer: Phillip Wilding

      Editor: Chelsey Moore

      Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini

      Executive Producer: Jamie East


      A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular

      Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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      43 min
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