A weekly reflection on a topical issue.
Radio 4,路825 episodes
Howard Jacobson on his mother's life - and death.
AL Kennedy on how we perceive risk.
Will Self ponders what lessons Aboriginal culture might have for the days of pandemic.
Zia Haider Rahman discusses the moral questions facing us in lifting the lockdown
Rebecca Stott reflects on unfinished projects.
Tom Shakespeare on becoming a grandad for the first time.
Adam Gopnik on life in lockdown in New York.
Sarah Dunant on how imagination will be a vital tool to deal with social distancing.
Michael Morpurgo on hunkering down in his cottage... waiting for coronavirus to pass.
Adam Gopnik on his children leaving home and becoming an "empty nester".
Tom Shakespeare asks how best to confront difficult situations.
To recline - or not to recline - your seat on an aeroplane? Adam Gopnik on "recline-gate"
Sarah Dunant on the romance of writing history.
Sarah Dunant discusses the relationship between disease and the culture of history.
Will Self bemoans the ever-increasing difficulty of finding a bit of peace and quiet.
Howard Jacobson on why he鈥檚 taken to folding plastic bags.
Howard Jacobson discusses why we all need to be concerned about anti-Semitism.
Will Self explores what he sees as a growing sense of collective hypocrisy.
Rebecca Stott on the joys of becoming a seal warden.
Rebecca Stott on her fascination with taxidermy.
John Gray ponders why the belief that an end to history is imminent, never goes away.
Will Self on why - for the first time in his life - he didn't vote.
John Gray reflects on the lessons today of an unusual U.S. newspaper column
Adam Gopnik argues that there's no need to panic about the much-discussed US sex recession
Adam Gopnik ponders why so much of our communication these days is bereft of human warmth.
Sarah Dunant on the rediscovery of undervalued women of art.
David Goodhart argues it's time to look again at our tradition of residential universities
Sarah Dunant describes an evening talking with a group of strangers about death.
David Goodhart on the rise of new 'tribes' in British political life.
Margaret Heffernan argues that, in the world of technology, nothing is inevitable.
