Rory Stewart

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24,987 appearances 93 recordings 4 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 2d ago

Rory Stewart’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 93 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 16.

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The Rest Is Politics · 562. The Right’s War With Itself and Burnham’s Prisons Challenge · 12 Aug 2026 podcast

economies that the United States pulling out of Ukraine is forcing us to spend tens of billions of dollars more in Ukraine and ultimately forcing Germany to spend up to a hundred billion dollars on defence and increasing defence expenditure. voice-verified

This is a a real, I don't know, quintuple whammy hitting Germany. voice-verified

Very good. voice-verified

Well, final question from a very alert uh listener called Lucy, who's following the Australian debate, um, which tees into you. voice-verified

What's all this stuff about Albanese, presents, Japan and melons? voice-verified

it to the Queen? voice-verified

Very traditional Japanese gift. voice-verified

She then gives him another one. voice-verified

Very auspicious. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

I just can I can I just pause for a second? voice-verified

Okay. voice-verified

So the gift of the melon, I do know a little bit about this 'cause I've been given melons in Japan. voice-verified

Um it's a very, very old tradition, goes back I think to the sort of s at least the sixteen hundreds, and they grow these melons often on a single plant, so just one plant with a melon and and like so many other things in Japan, done with the most exquisite care. voice-verified

So it'll be the most perfect melon. voice-verified

Correct. voice-verified

And it can cost up to ten thousand dollars for a really, really good melon. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

So it's a really profound sense of respect gratitude. voice-verified

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