A Point of View Episodes Episode guide
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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.
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The recurrent dream of an end-time
John Gray ponders why the belief that an end to history is imminent, never goes away.
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Expectations of Democracy
Will Self on why - for the first time in his life - he didn't vote.
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Conversations of a cockroach and an alley cat
John Gray reflects on the lessons today of an unusual U.S. newspaper column
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Clive James: Clams are Happy
Following the death of Clive James - one of his first talks for "A Point of View".
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The Sex Recession
Adam Gopnik argues that there's no need to panic about the much-discussed US sex recession
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On Spam
Adam Gopnik ponders why so much of our communication these days is bereft of human warmth.
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A Woman at the Last Supper
Sarah Dunant on the rediscovery of undervalued women of art.
