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A weekly reflection on a topical issue.

Updated: weekly
Episodes available: indefinitely

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    Gender in the Blender

    Fri 7 Aug 2020

    Bernardine Evaristo reflects on changing attitudes to gender.

  • The Big Benefits of Smallness

    Fri 31 Jul 2020

    Linda Colley on why being a small nation can be an advantage.

  • A Hazy Shade of Winter

    Fri 24 Jul 2020

    Rebecca Stott tells the story of 536 AD - the year the sun 'disappeared'.

  • Legacy Bottle Opener

    Fri 17 Jul 2020

    Will Self discusses how the pandemic has affected our views of inheritance.

  • Coronavirus and Convention

    Fri 10 Jul 2020

    Adam Gopnik discusses how the pandemic is bringing out our most conventional behaviours.

  • Why Black Lives Matter

    Fri 3 Jul 2020

    Bernardine Evaristo discusses how we historicise the past

  • A Word of Advice

    Fri 26 Jun 2020

    Zia Haider Rahman reflects on the comment "If you don't like it here you can always leave"

  • The end of university as we know it?

    Fri 19 Jun 2020

    Mary Beard asks: Has the iconic university lecture had its day?

  • Inside Out

    Fri 12 Jun 2020

    David Goodhart examines our changing attitudes to authority.

  • I Like It Here

    Fri 5 Jun 2020

    Howard Jacobson takes a wry view of life under lockdown.

  • Waiting

    Fri 29 May 2020

    Rebecca Stott reflects on how it feels being out of kilter with time.

  • In Praise of Cleaning

    Fri 22 May 2020

    Will Self on the Great British Wipe-Up.

  • My Mother

    Fri 15 May 2020

    Howard Jacobson on his mother's life - and death.

  • On Risk

    Fri 8 May 2020

    AL Kennedy on how we perceive risk.

  • Cultural success and the Aboriginals

    Fri 1 May 2020

    Will Self ponders what lessons Aboriginal culture might have for the days of pandemic.

  • A Few Good Trade Offs

    Fri 24 Apr 2020

    Zia Haider Rahman discusses the moral questions facing us in lifting the lockdown

  • On Not Finishing

    Fri 17 Apr 2020

    Rebecca Stott reflects on unfinished projects.

  • Grandad We Love You

    Fri 10 Apr 2020

    Tom Shakespeare on becoming a grandad for the first time.

  • Seven Degrees of Solitude

    Fri 3 Apr 2020

    Adam Gopnik on life in lockdown in New York.

  • Fighting infection with imagination

    Fri 27 Mar 2020

    Sarah Dunant on how imagination will be a vital tool to deal with social distancing.

  • Cause for Hope

    Fri 20 Mar 2020

    Michael Morpurgo on hunkering down in his cottage... waiting for coronavirus to pass.

  • Empty-nesters and gangsters

    Fri 13 Mar 2020

    Adam Gopnik on his children leaving home and becoming an "empty nester".

  • What to do?

    Fri 6 Mar 2020

    Tom Shakespeare asks how best to confront difficult situations.

  • Recline-gate

    Fri 28 Feb 2020

    To recline - or not to recline - your seat on an aeroplane? Adam Gopnik on "recline-gate"

  • Inhaling History

    Fri 21 Feb 2020

    Sarah Dunant on the romance of writing history.

  • An Epidemic of History

    Fri 14 Feb 2020

    Sarah Dunant discusses the relationship between disease and the culture of history.

  • Sodcasting

    Fri 7 Feb 2020

    Will Self bemoans the ever-increasing difficulty of finding a bit of peace and quiet.

  • Saving the planet - on hands and knees

    Fri 31 Jan 2020

    Howard Jacobson on why he鈥檚 taken to folding plastic bags.

  • Anti-Semitism and the Neo Medievalists

    Fri 24 Jan 2020

    Howard Jacobson discusses why we all need to be concerned about anti-Semitism.

  • On Hypocrisy

    Fri 10 Jan 2020

    Will Self explores what he sees as a growing sense of collective hypocrisy.

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