A weekly reflection on a topical issue.
Radio 4,·813 episodes
Sarah Dunant ponders how historic cities deal with unprecedented numbers of tourists.
Stephen Smith on our fascination with the belongings of the rich and famous.
As a seasoned protester, Trevor Phillips explores what’s wrong with protest today.
Adam Gopnik reflects on the truths our dogs can teach us.
Michael Morpurgo reflects on age as he approaches his 80th birthday.
AL Kennedy ponders how we deal with a never-ending cycle of bad news.
Will Self reflects on mirrors, narcissism and human imperfection.
As Midsummer Day approaches, Rebecca Stott examines our complex relationship with colour.
Zoe Strimpel on the perils of treating youth as a commodity.
John Connell reveals how his love for his lawn gave way to letting the grass run wild.
Howard Jacobson says an attack on Eric Gill's sculpture is a failure to understand art.
Tom Shakespeare bemoans the fashion for being asked to rate everything we buy or do.
Rebecca Stott ponders the nature of dust, as spring sunshine sharpens the sight of it.
Sara Wheeler ponders what the new Carolean age will bring forth.
Sarah Dunant explores how the UK can tackle its demographic timebomb.
Will Self on the fad of creating ever more 'cultural quarters' in our towns and cities.
Adam Gopnik says foreign TV shows helped him appreciate the universal language of satire.
Sara Wheeler says writing a biography has proved a reminder not to judge people.
Megan Nolan says she was an insecure teenager, and millennial adulthood is just as uneasy.
John Gray makes the case for proportional representation as a means to revive our politics
Howard Jacobson on why a flower has suddenly trumped exotic chocolates in his affections.
Zoe Strimpel explores what lies behind her new-found impulse to collect art.
AL Kennedy finds echoes of the disaster movies of the 70s in our current state of affairs.
Trevor Phillips discusses the dangers to Britain of a new, repressive 'group-think'.
Sarah Dunant says the Renaissance master Donatello shows us a way to learn from the past.
Will Self on the pleasure of walking without purpose and the freedom of getting lost.
Adam Gopnik challenges the idea that artificial intelligence can match human creativity.
Rebecca Stott asks if communal living could solve society's most pressing problems.
Zoe Strimpel on modern masculinity and the dangers posed by the rhetoric of Andrew Tate.
Megan Nolan ponders a bizarre alignment between her life and that of Prince Harry.