Helen Pidd

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3,798 appearances 36 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 4d ago

Helen Pidd’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 36 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 13.

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Today in Focus · Is Ulrich Siegmund the most dangerous man in Germany? · 3 Sep 2026 podcast

Today in focus, the AFD's TikTok star. voice-verified

John Kampfner, welcome back to Today in Focus. voice-verified

Great to see you. voice-verified

So you are a longtime Germany watcher, the author of Why the Germans Do It Better. voice-verified

And I think you're a German citizen of four or five years. voice-verified

Is that right? voice-verified

I am. voice-verified

Herzlichen Glückwunsch on your uh on your German citizenship. voice-verified

Can let's just start by talking about this vote on Sunday. voice-verified

Who is voting? voice-verified

Where are they? voice-verified

And why does it matter? voice-verified

Mm. voice-verified

And and what are the demographics like in Saxony Anhard? voice-verified

But I guess there's a lot of proud local history there, isn't there? voice-verified

Some of the sons of Saxony Anhard, very famous, Handel the composer, Otto von Bismarck, Nietzsche the first. voice-verified

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And we've talked on this show quite a bit before about the rise of Alternative for Deutschland, the Alternative for Germany, and their leader, Alice Weidel. voice-verified

She, of course, led the party to second place in the twenty twenty five federal election, winning twenty-five percent of the vote. voice-verified

But can you just briefly explain, because we will talk about this more later, why this election, why this vote in this one small state of just two million odd people, why is it potentially so significant? voice-verified

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