A weekly reflection on a topical issue.
Radio 4,·825 episodes
Megan Nolan discusses the intense pressures on women writers to be attractive.
Will Self reflects on the merits of failure.
Linda Colley argues that the age of empire is far from over.
John Connell reflects on the plight of vanishing salmon and what it means for our planet
Sara Wheeler navigates the tricky issue of voice appropriation.
Howard Jacobson reflects on summer festivals, conformity and a dancing cockatoo.
Tom Shakespeare grapples with a tricky personal decision over his carbon footprint.
David Goodhart ponders the idea of 'smart luck'.
John Gray ponders the true meaning of Conservatism.
Zoe Strimpel on why we need more billionaires - the richer the better.
Sarah Dunant reflects on a historic moment in US history - the overturning of Roe v Wade.
Will Self on why we are in thrall to nostalgia.
Howard Jacobson reflects on birthdays, ageing and Macbeth's incorrigible optimism.
Observations on the Jubilee weekend by a bemused foreign visitor to London.
Rebecca Stott imagines a day when Kharkiv and other Ukrainian cities can be rebuilt.
Michael Morpurgo calls for a rethink on how we deal with refugees.
Bernardine Evaristo on news that Girl, Woman, Other may be banned in some US schools.
Sarah Dunant takes the temperature of sexual equality in politics.
Will Self proposes a very British solution to the legalisation of marijuana.
Howard Jacobson on why stories of truth in war cannot be ignored.
Zoe Strimpel asks the simple-yet-complex question, 'what is a woman?'
The everyday repression of life in Russia, as seen by an anonymous dissident playwright.
A L Kennedy reflects on a 1950s experiment in inducing despair.
Adam Gopnik seeks enlightenment for our time in Tolstoy's War and Peace.
Sarah Dunant on the power of images in war.
Rebecca Stott on conversations with her Russian friend.
Will Self argues that the threat of a nuclear apocalypse has never really gone away.
Sara Wheeler says that the attack on Ukraine is not the war of Russians she has known.
John Connell on planting trees on his family farm as reparation for years of flying.
Sara Wheeler reflects on the harm done by seeing only from our own point of view.
