Making Change
This week, Lucy and Alex are joined by Amber Massie-Blomfield, who discusses her new book about the connections between art and protest.'Acts of Resistance: The Power of Art to Create a Better World',...
22 Aug 202443min
Fixtures and Funerals
This week, Lucy and Alex are joined by the novelist David Peace, who explains what drew him to writing about the 1958 Munich Air Disaster.'Munichs', by David PeaceProduced by Charlotte Pardy Hosted on...
15 Aug 202445min
The History Boys
This week, we take a look back at Fintan O'Toole's pre-election assessment of Keir Starmer; and revisit a conversation with William Boyd.'Keir Starmer: The Biography', by Tom Baldwin'November 1942: An...
8 Aug 202453min
The Mind Bind
This week, Philip Ball assesses the anxiety about AI - and provides some reassurance; and Jane Robinson on Emily Davies, the woman who founded Girton College, Cambridge.'Moral AI: And how we get there...
1 Aug 202444min
After the Deluge
This week, Isaac Nowell takes us out in all weathers, Sean O'Brien reads a new poem, and Norma Clarke on a fascinating story of exile and doomed love.'In All Weathers: A Journey Through Rain, Fog, Win...
25 Juli 202444min
Sitting Pretty
This week, Anna Katharina Schaffner on a top-to-tail exploration of deportment; and Toby Lichtig in conversation with novelist Hari Kunzru at the Hay Festival.'Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America'...
18 Juli 202451min
Testaments of Youth
This week, Lily Herd on a child's-eye view of rockstar royalty; and Toby Lichtig talks to novelist Chigozie Obioma at the Hay Festival.'My Family and Other Rock Stars', by Tiffany Murray'The Road to t...
11 Juli 202450min
Private Eyes and Private Lives
This week, Heather O'Donoghue puzzles over the locked rooms and red herrings of the crime genre; and Josh Raymond on an animated attempt to understand teenage turmoil.'The Life of Crime: Detecting the...
4 Juli 202447min
