Rory Stewart

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24,987 appearances 93 recordings 4 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 5d 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: Leading · 201. How Westminster Breaks Politicians and Why Britain Isn't Ready for War · 9 Aug 2026 podcast

And if you were talking about Britain and a lot of the political problems, people would often say the problem actually is exactly places like Plymouth that feel left behind, feel marginalized, feel they're not properly represented in Westminster. voice-verified

So what's the positive vision for them? voice-verified

Again, you as the prime minister of Plymouth, what would you want to do for a community like that over 10, 15 years so that people re-engaged again? voice-verified

Just to understand how your parents arrived there. voice-verified

So they were very strict Baptists. voice-verified

This was a very strict Christian upbringing. voice-verified

Was that something they got from their own grandparents? voice-verified

What was the family story? voice-verified

The positive side to this, or maybe that's the wrong way of looking at it. voice-verified

I mean, from the outset, I've got no idea at all what it was like growing up. voice-verified

But if you were to say quickly to people that you didn't have television, you had quite a simple life, some people might think that's quite a good foundation for childhood. voice-verified

So why doesn't it quite work as a way of bringing up kids? voice-verified

Because, you know, we're all worried about social media at the moment. voice-verified

We're all worried about our kids getting overwhelmed by the modern world. voice-verified

Why does it not quite work to go to the extreme in the other direction? voice-verified

Alistair, can I just come to you on this for a second? voice-verified

Because this tension that Johnny's talking about, you've been through a version of, which is he's saying, firstly, it's quite difficult if you're in public life talking openly about this. voice-verified

It can feel quite humiliating. voice-verified

Secondly, there's a strong sense of obligation that I need to talk about this, as Johnny says, that some of us are madder than people think, and there's quite a lot of us out there, and it's very helpful for people. voice-verified

How did you personally go through thinking about being honest about your own mental health? voice-verified

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