A Point of View Podcast
A weekly reflection on a topical issue.
Episodes to download
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The Soul of a Rebel
Fri 21 Jul 2023
As a seasoned protester, Trevor Phillips explores what’s wrong with protest today.
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Good Directions
Fri 30 Jun 2023
AL Kennedy ponders how we deal with a never-ending cycle of bad news.
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Observing Ourselves
Fri 23 Jun 2023
Will Self reflects on mirrors, narcissism and human imperfection.
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Midsummer and the Mysteries of Colour
Fri 16 Jun 2023
As Midsummer Day approaches, Rebecca Stott examines our complex relationship with colour.
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BeyoncΓ©, Beauty and the Pursuit of Youth
Fri 9 Jun 2023
Zoe Strimpel on the perils of treating youth as a commodity.
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To Mow or Not to Mow
Fri 2 Jun 2023
John Connell reveals how his love for his lawn gave way to letting the grass run wild.
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Taking Hammer to Gill
Fri 26 May 2023
Howard Jacobson says an attack on Eric Gill's sculpture is a failure to understand art.
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The Ratings Game
Fri 19 May 2023
Tom Shakespeare bemoans the fashion for being asked to rate everything we buy or do.
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Dust to Dust
Fri 12 May 2023
Rebecca Stott ponders the nature of dust, as spring sunshine sharpens the sight of it.
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Demographic Meltdown
Fri 28 Apr 2023
Sarah Dunant explores how the UK can tackle its demographic timebomb.
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Abide with Yourself
Fri 21 Apr 2023
Will Self on the fad of creating ever more 'cultural quarters' in our towns and cities.
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In Praise of Satire
Fri 14 Apr 2023
Adam Gopnik says foreign TV shows helped him appreciate the universal language of satire.
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The Wisdom of Judgement
Fri 7 Apr 2023
Sara Wheeler says writing a biography has proved a reminder not to judge people.
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Insecurity
Fri 31 Mar 2023
Megan Nolan says she was an insecure teenager, and millennial adulthood is just as uneasy.
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Proportional Representation and a New Politics
Fri 24 Mar 2023
John Gray makes the case for proportional representation as a means to revive our politics
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Amaryllis
Fri 17 Mar 2023
Howard Jacobson on why a flower has suddenly trumped exotic chocolates in his affections.
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Collecting Art
Fri 10 Mar 2023
Zoe Strimpel explores what lies behind her new-found impulse to collect art.
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Lessons from Disaster Movies
Fri 3 Mar 2023
AL Kennedy finds echoes of the disaster movies of the 70s in our current state of affairs.
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Stay Weird, Britain
Fri 24 Feb 2023
Trevor Phillips discusses the dangers to Britain of a new, repressive 'group-think'.
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Donatello and a New Renaissance
Fri 17 Feb 2023
Sarah Dunant says the Renaissance master Donatello shows us a way to learn from the past.
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The Art of Getting Lost
Fri 10 Feb 2023
Will Self on the pleasure of walking without purpose and the freedom of getting lost.
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AI Agonistes
Fri 3 Feb 2023
Adam Gopnik challenges the idea that artificial intelligence can match human creativity.
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On Communal Living
Fri 27 Jan 2023
Rebecca Stott asks if communal living could solve society's most pressing problems.
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Masculinity: From Durkheim to Andrew Tate
Fri 20 Jan 2023
Zoe Strimpel on modern masculinity and the dangers posed by the rhetoric of Andrew Tate.
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Prince Harry, Love, and Me
Fri 13 Jan 2023
Megan Nolan ponders a bizarre alignment between her life and that of Prince Harry.
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Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
Fri 6 Jan 2023
Tom Shakespeare goes in search of some light relief from the January blues.
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Nature's Pantomime
Fri 30 Dec 2022
Howard Jacobson celebrates the way animals rescue us from self-importance.
