All Episodes

What's So Good About Democracy?

Bread

Reading Against the Grain

The Example of St Francis

Intellectuals

The Ethics of Knowledge

Trade and Traffic

The Child's Eye View

Eccentrics & Outsiders

Satire and Gulliver's Travels

Wealth

Free Thinking at the Hay Festival: Responsibility

Thinking with Food

Technologies of the Self

The Middle

Weapons, Real and Symbolic

Purity

Humility

Oral Tradition and Oracy

Taste

Women, Language and Experience

Authority

Crime and Punishment: Medieval to Modern

Working Class Creativity

Is Might Right?

Labour, Work and Productivity

Double Lives

Victorian Values

Innovation

Travel

Idleness

Influencing History

Marriage

Rocks

Revenge and Reconciliation

The end of civilisations and societies

Rational and Irrational decision making

Traditions, roots and local pride

The status of science

What is a good life?

Finding my tribe

Friendship

Censorship, editing and self-censorship

Christian faith, politics and culture

Language

Failure

Podcasting difficult histories

Common Sense

Power: A User's Guide

Wolves

Political Visions

Peace

Community

Decadence and Declinism

The Middle Classes

Isolation

Evidence

Uncertainty

A pinch of salt

Malcolm X, life changes and flexible thinking

All we need is love

Repetition

Decision making

Diaries and the day to day

Knowing when to stop

Beer, crisps and the British pub

Luck, predictability and superstition

How we think about evil

Gifts and Gratitude

Diplomacy from Ancient Greece to Trump

Cosy comfort reading or Nietzsche?

Milton and our modern world

Ghosts, death and ecstatic states

Are we all American now?

Insiders & Outsiders

Childhood and innocence

Why we read

The eternal dynamic of Rivalry, Fredric Jameson, the newly reopened Warburg Institute

Crisis & Decision

Carl Schmitt, democracy and dictatorship

Carl Schmitt, democracy and dictatorship

Escapism

The illusion of time, the summer solstice & the philosophy of comedy

History - the long and short of it

Generations - D-Day - Global Instability

The Insurrectionists' Guide to the Movies

Left and Right - still relevant in British and Global Politics?

Positive & negative politics, "intellectual vices" and the face you bring to work.

Life expectations, philosophy in the world, protest

Winning & Losing, Plato Scroll, the Decline of Nightlife

Kant today, Spice Girls Reunited, Impersonating an Animal

Tacitus, Byron's fanmail and Bluey

Change, scrabble and cultural christianity

Hobbes, Abba, Waterloo and margarine

Pranks

Approaches to death

Writing Place

Scottish Kingship

Free speech, censorship and modern China

Edward Bond