Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips

Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips is the podcast version of Sky News's flagship Sunday political show, and Phillips has become one of the more distinctive interviewers in British broadcasting since taking over the slot. He came to the role after a varied career -- former head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, documentary maker, journalist -- and that background gives him an angle that pure lobby correspondents tend to lack. Each week the podcast publishes the full interviews from Sunday morning, typically running 40-60 minutes total. Phillips regularly secures big names: cabinet ministers, shadow ministers, international figures, and occasional business leaders. His interviewing style is polite but persistent. He does not do the grandstanding of some Sunday morning interrogators, but he is good at returning to the same question two or three times when a politician tries to evade it, and the results are often more revealing than more combative approaches. With 227 episodes in the archive, the podcast gives you a rolling record of what British politicians were saying week by week on the issues of the day. The Sunday morning political round is traditionally where ministers commit to positions that then dominate Monday's news cycle, so episodes often contain genuinely news-making exchanges. For listeners who cannot watch live on Sunday morning but want to catch the key interviews, the podcast format works perfectly -- you get the substance without having to sit through the full programme. It is a solid addition to any serious UK political podcast rotation.