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Escapism
Matthew Sweet and guests question whether you can ever really escape
Carl Schmitt, democracy and dictatorship
Anne McElvoy with guests including David Runciman and Gisela Stuart
Crisis & Decision
Do we live in a time of crisis? Matthew Sweet gets to grips with the present moment
The eternal dynamic of Rivalry, Fredric Jameson, the newly reopened Warburg Institute
Michael Crick, Helen Castor, David Edmonds, Kate Maltby and Roger Luckhurst
Reading & Empathy
With Shahidha Bari and guests
Childhood and innocence
Katherine Rundell, Emily Baughan, Grace Lockrobin, Miriam Cates, Andrew Cooper
Insiders & Outsiders
Matthew Sweet and guests explore the secret languages of the internet and beyond
Are we all American now?
3Short Freddy Gray, Dr Katie McGettigan, Amanda Taub, Kit Davis, Rana Mitter
Ghosts, death and ecstatic states
Shahidha Bari with Irving Finkel, Simon Critchley, Chris Harding & Hetta Howes
Milton and our modern world
It's 350 years since the death of Milton - we discuss ideas of Puritanism and divorce