Neighbouring Russia, with Erika Fatland
Tracing Russia’s vast border, which meets those of 14 other countries, helps tells the history of Russia itself. From its imperial past to Soviet-era expansions and contractions leading up to its curr...
24 Jun 202239min
How to Be an Antiracist, with Ibram X. Kendi
Activist, historian and academic Ibram X. Kendi's book, How To Be and Antiracist, won the National Book Award for nonfiction as well as topping bestseller lists in 2020, a year in which the murder by ...
22 Jun 202246min
The Hidden World of Bisexuality, with Julia Shaw
Bisexuality is the world’s largest sexual minority but is potentially the least understood. In her new book, Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality, psychological scientist Dr Jul...
20 Jun 202242min
The Sunday Debate: Parenting Doesn’t Matter (Or Not As Much As You Think)
We delve back into the archive to 2018, when we held a debate getting to the heart of nature vs nurture. How much do our parents influence the people that we eventually turn out to be? We were joined ...
19 Jun 20221h 4min
Bittersweet: Finding Purpose in Sorrow, with Susan Cain
Susan Cain shot to fame in 2012 with her international bestseller Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking, in which she urged society to cultivate space for the undervalued i...
17 Jun 202258min
How To Live With Each Other, with Farhan Samanani
In an increasingly polarised world, it’s not often we get books saying that difference is our greatest strength. But Farhan Samanani is a Canadian social anthropologist, whose recent book, How to Live...
15 Jun 202255min
Count your Blessings: The Natural Beauty of Mathematics, with Junaid Mubeen
Whether rapidly advancing artificial intelligence will eventually become a friend or foe to humanity is a pressing question when it comes to technology. But one smart human says there’s an area where ...
13 Jun 202252min
The Sunday Debate: We Were Right To Brexit
It was always going to be a disaster. Queues of HGVs stretching miles from Dover. The Good Friday Agreement threatened by the controversial Northern Ireland Protocol and increased support for Scottish...
12 Jun 20221h 4min
