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A Hazy Shade of Winter
Rebecca Stott tells the story of 536 AD - the year the sun 'disappeared'.
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Legacy Bottle Opener
Will Self discusses how the pandemic has affected our views of inheritance.
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Coronavirus and Convention
Adam Gopnik discusses how the pandemic is bringing out our most conventional behaviours.
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Why Black Lives Matter
Bernardine Evaristo discusses how we historicise the past
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A Word of Advice
Zia Haider Rahman reflects on the comment "If you don't like it here you can always leave"
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The end of university as we know it?
Mary Beard asks: Has the iconic university lecture had its day?
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Inside Out
David Goodhart examines our changing attitudes to authority.
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I Like It Here
Howard Jacobson takes a wry view of life under lockdown.
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Waiting
Rebecca Stott reflects on how it feels being out of kilter with time.
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In Praise of Cleaning
Will Self on the Great British Wipe-Up.
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My Mother
Howard Jacobson on his mother's life - and death.
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On Risk
AL Kennedy on how we perceive risk.
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Cultural success and the Aboriginals
Will Self ponders what lessons Aboriginal culture might have for the days of pandemic.
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A Few Good Trade Offs
Zia Haider Rahman discusses the moral questions facing us in lifting the lockdown
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On Not Finishing
Rebecca Stott reflects on unfinished projects.
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Grandad We Love You
Tom Shakespeare on becoming a grandad for the first time.
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Seven Degrees of Solitude
Adam Gopnik on life in lockdown in New York.
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Fighting infection with imagination
Sarah Dunant on how imagination will be a vital tool to deal with social distancing.
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Cause for Hope
Michael Morpurgo on hunkering down in his cottage... waiting for coronavirus to pass.
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Empty-nesters and gangsters
Adam Gopnik on his children leaving home and becoming an "empty nester".
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What to do?
Tom Shakespeare asks how best to confront difficult situations.
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Recline-gate
To recline - or not to recline - your seat on an aeroplane? Adam Gopnik on "recline-gate"
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Inhaling History
Sarah Dunant on the romance of writing history.
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An Epidemic of History
Sarah Dunant discusses the relationship between disease and the culture of history.
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Sodcasting
Will Self bemoans the ever-increasing difficulty of finding a bit of peace and quiet.
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Saving the planet - on hands and knees
Howard Jacobson on why he鈥檚 taken to folding plastic bags.
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Anti-Semitism and the Neo Medievalists
Howard Jacobson discusses why we all need to be concerned about anti-Semitism.
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On Hypocrisy
Will Self explores what he sees as a growing sense of collective hypocrisy.
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Getting Close to Nature
Rebecca Stott on the joys of becoming a seal warden.
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The Consolations of Taxidermy
Rebecca Stott on her fascination with taxidermy.
