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Escapism

Matthew Sweet and guests question whether you can ever really escape

• 56 mins

Carl Schmitt, democracy and dictatorship

Anne McElvoy with guests including David Runciman and Gisela Stuart

• 56 mins

Carl Schmitt, democracy and dictatorship

Anne McElvoy with guests including David Runciman and Gisela Stuart

• 56 mins

Crisis & Decision

Do we live in a time of crisis? Matthew Sweet gets to grips with the present moment

• 56 mins

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

Michael Crick, Helen Castor, David Edmonds, Kate Maltby and Roger Luckhurst

• 56 mins

Reading & Empathy

With Shahidha Bari and guests

• 56 mins

Childhood and innocence

Katherine Rundell, Emily Baughan, Grace Lockrobin, Miriam Cates, Andrew Cooper

• 56 mins

Insiders & Outsiders

Matthew Sweet and guests explore the secret languages of the internet and beyond

• 56 mins

Are we all American now?

3Short Freddy Gray, Dr Katie McGettigan, Amanda Taub, Kit Davis, Rana Mitter

• 56 mins

Ghosts, death and ecstatic states

Shahidha Bari with Irving Finkel, Simon Critchley, Chris Harding & Hetta Howes

• 57 mins

Milton and our modern world

It's 350 years since the death of Milton - we discuss ideas of Puritanism and divorce

• 56 mins

Cosy comfort reading or Nietzsche?

Alexander McCall Smith, Susannah Clapp, Tom Shakespeare, Deborah Sugg Ryan & Hugo Drochon

• 56 mins

Diplomacy from Ancient Greece to Trump

Sir Nigel Sheinwald,Clare Jackson, Holly Furneaux and Bronwen Maddox discuss diplomacy

• 56 mins

Gifts and Gratitude

Following Thanksgiving, and as Christmas approaches, Shahidha Bari on giving and receiving

• 56 mins

How we think about evil

Matthew Sweet and guests pick up from this year's Reith lectures and look at ideas of evil

• 56 mins

Luck, predictability and superstition

Dr Christian Busch, Bobby Seagull, Sharron Davies, Dr Kate Tomas and Timandra Harkness.

• 57 mins

Beer, Crisps and the British pub

Tim Martin, Natalie Whittle, Prof Philip Howell, Dr Marianne Hem Eriksen, Ben Wright.

• 56 mins