2 Crickets In A Thorn Tree

Nicholas Lorimer and Gabriel Crouse provide their unique take on everything and anything going on in South Africa and the world at large, with a focus on history, philosophy and current affairs. Getting away with murder in South Africa, Russian oligarchs, American elections and geopolitical strategy all feature in this unconventional podcast.

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Recent Episodes
  • What is journalism ?
    Jan 20, 2023 – 2:37:20
  • Year of the Rabbit
    Jan 13, 2023 – 2:25:08
  • The wrong impeachment!
    Dec 6, 2022 – 1:44:22
  • The tribe, the child, parole and the rule of law
    Nov 26, 2022 – 2:12:04
  • The affirmative vote
    Nov 11, 2022 – 2:34:03
  • The terror of gerrymandering
    Oct 28, 2022 – 2:11:31
  • The Puritanical impulse
    Oct 22, 2022 – 2:26:51
  • Frames of reference, Truss and Prince
    Oct 14, 2022 – 2:09:52
  • A bad week for South Africa
    Oct 1, 2022 – 2:01:39
  • Rounding out two big weeks
    Sep 18, 2022 – 2:01:25
  • What is incitement anyway?
    Aug 28, 2022 – 1:41:18
  • The power of theater
    Aug 19, 2022 – 1:50:42
  • The Conservative Iceberg: SA Edition
    Aug 5, 2022 – 1:50:29
  • Zuma's 2 steps to freedom
    Jul 26, 2022 – 1:19:05
  • What even is the Middle East?
    Jul 15, 2022 – 1:55:24
  • The passing of a PM and the resignation of a PM
    Jul 9, 2022 – 1:40:42
  • Maybe we should try convincing people?
    Jul 2, 2022 – 2:10:20
  • Talking about difficult things
    Jun 25, 2022 – 1:44:37
  • There is a disturbance in the force
    Jun 18, 2022 – 1:43:24
  • Just deserts
    Jun 10, 2022 – 1:54:46
  • Changes are in the air
    Jun 6, 2022 – 1:54:58
  • Pox, defamation and drinking
    May 28, 2022 – 1:15:33
  • The Centre Folds, Black Stars & Leaky Robes
    May 16, 2022 – 2:13:00
  • All things French
    Apr 26, 2022 – 1:23:01
  • The Elon-Twitter affair
    Apr 14, 2022 – 1:53:20
  • The problem with childhood
    Apr 8, 2022 – 2:03:25
  • Comedy, courts and war
    Mar 23, 2022 – 2:19:19
  • Celebrating a step on the road to peace in South Africa.
    Mar 18, 2022 – 1:16:44
  • How can we escape the nightmare of war?
    Mar 1, 2022 – 2:09:40
  • Hate speech laws
    Feb 21, 2022 – 2:06:12
  • What's in a word?
    Feb 13, 2022 – 1:46:57
  • Should bloodlines be borderlines?
    Jan 28, 2022 – 1:51:08
  • Thought inflation
    Jan 21, 2022 – 1:05:16
  • Good news, Zondo and the inscrutable East
    Jan 17, 2022 – 2:04:56
  • Slaves, mandates and devolutionary holidays
    Dec 3, 2021 – 2:18:15
  • Omicron, SA2 electric Boogaloo
    Nov 28, 2021 – 1:33:44
  • Modern war: war has changed or have we?
    Nov 20, 2021 – 1:01:00
  • 3 Crickets: Discussing de Klerk with Rian Malan
    Nov 15, 2021 – 1:38:20
  • The Liberal Slideback
    Nov 9, 2021 – 1:34:09
  • Frans Cronje joins the Crickets
    Oct 30, 2021 – 1:28:07
  • Don't walk the dog with an upset stomach
    Oct 25, 2021 – 1:30:56
  • Princeton Nobel gongs
    Oct 12, 2021 – 1:27:12
  • Smoothing it over with hypocrisy
    Oct 4, 2021 – 1:26:23
  • Seeing things from a French perspective
    Sep 21, 2021 – 1:22:13
  • The curious case of Larry Elder and the Egg
    Sep 12, 2021 – 1:13:47
  • The end of the war in Afghanistan
    Sep 1, 2021 – 1:38:34
  • The battle for the soul of South Africa's democracy
    Aug 24, 2021 – 1:22:50
  • The Ramaführer hypothesis
    Jul 31, 2021 – 1:04:10
  • 3 Crickets in a Thorn Tree with Rian Malan
    Jul 23, 2021 – 1:40:34
  • It was the best of riots it was the worst of riots
    Jul 19, 2021 – 1:24:19
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