The Times and The Sunday Times are launching a new weekly political podcast, The State of It, hosted by four of Westminster’s most respected journalists. Patrick Maguire, Gabriel Pogrund, Steven Swinford and Caroline Wheeler will lead the show, combining agenda-setting scoops, insider knowledge and analysis from inside Britain’s political corridors of power. With wit and a touch of mischief, the series promises to make politics both entertaining and essential listening. Patrick Maguire, chief political commentator at The Times, said: “At The Times and The Sunday Times we hear every conversation that matters in British politics – including the ones they don’t want you to know about. With The State of It, you can hear them too.”Gabriel Pogrund, Whitehall editor at The Sunday Times and Press Awards political journalist of the year, added: “Patrick and I decided it was time to do something other than talk all day.
