A Point of View Podcast
A weekly reflection on a topical issue.
Episodes to download
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Dance Cocky
Fri 29 Jul 2022
Howard Jacobson reflects on summer festivals, conformity and a dancing cockatoo.
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Climate Change and the Fall of Icarus
Fri 22 Jul 2022
Tom Shakespeare grapples with a tricky personal decision over his carbon footprint.
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Billionaire Bashing
Fri 1 Jul 2022
Zoe Strimpel on why we need more billionaires - the richer the better.
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Driving the American Dream
Fri 24 Jun 2022
Sarah Dunant reflects on a historic moment in US history - the overturning of Roe v Wade.
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Birthday Blues
Fri 10 Jun 2022
Howard Jacobson reflects on birthdays, ageing and Macbeth's incorrigible optimism.
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Jubilee Musings
Fri 3 Jun 2022
Observations on the Jubilee weekend by a bemused foreign visitor to London.
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On Rubble
Fri 27 May 2022
Rebecca Stott imagines a day when Kharkiv and other Ukrainian cities can be rebuilt.
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The War with Words
Fri 13 May 2022
Bernardine Evaristo on news that Girl, Woman, Other may be banned in some US schools.
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Basic Instincts in the House of Commons
Fri 6 May 2022
Sarah Dunant takes the temperature of sexual equality in politics.
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Reconsidering Cannabis and the Law
Sun 1 May 2022
Will Self proposes a very British solution to the legalisation of marijuana.
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The Unlistened-to Story
Fri 22 Apr 2022
Howard Jacobson on why stories of truth in war cannot be ignored.
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What is a Woman?
Fri 15 Apr 2022
Zoe Strimpel asks the simple-yet-complex question, 'what is a woman?'
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A View From Russia: All I Have To Say
Fri 8 Apr 2022
The everyday repression of life in Russia, as seen by an anonymous dissident playwright.
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Tolstoy in Our Time
Fri 25 Mar 2022
Adam Gopnik seeks enlightenment for our time in Tolstoy's War and Peace.
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Return of the Bomb
Fri 4 Mar 2022
Will Self argues that the threat of a nuclear apocalypse has never really gone away.
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It's Not Their War
Fri 25 Feb 2022
Sara Wheeler says that the attack on Ukraine is not the war of Russians she has known.
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An Ecological Reparation
Fri 18 Feb 2022
John Connell on planting trees on his family farm as reparation for years of flying.
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Selective Vision
Fri 11 Feb 2022
Sara Wheeler reflects on the harm done by seeing only from our own point of view.
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Misopedia
Fri 4 Feb 2022
Will Self deplores the British attitude to children, mixing sentimentality with cruelty
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Leaving the Ivory Tower
Fri 28 Jan 2022
As she leaves academia, Rebecca Stott says an audit culture is stifling universities.
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The Right Side of History
Fri 21 Jan 2022
Sarah Dunant asks if we should judge the past by the standards of the present - or future.
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Etonian Lives Matter... but not as much as they used to.
Fri 14 Jan 2022
David Goodhart rejects what he calls the 'Eton conspiracy myth'.
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On Rapid Home Delivery
Fri 7 Jan 2022
Zoe Strimpel reflects on the impact of rapid home delivery on the way we live our lives.
