A Point of View Podcast
A weekly reflection on a topical issue.
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Self Confident Culture
Fri 15 Nov 2013
Will Self argues for greater British cultural self-confidence in the debate over the veil.
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Kennedy 50 Years On
Fri 8 Nov 2013
Will Self reflects on America's view of the assassination of JF Kennedy, 50 years on.
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Will Self: Pity the Young
Fri 1 Nov 2013
Will Self reflects on the malign influence of the older generation on the young.
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Lisa Jardine: Reflections on IVF
Fri 25 Oct 2013
Lisa Jardine reflects on IVF as she stands down from the body which regulates it.
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Machine Intelligence
Fri 18 Oct 2013
Lisa Jardine compares the computer science legacies of Alan Turing and Ada Lovelace.
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Cross Border Science
Fri 11 Oct 2013
Lisa Jardine reflects on the internationalism that underpins the progress of science.
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Ethical Science
Fri 4 Oct 2013
Lisa Jardine draws lessons from the career of Leo Szilard, who worked on the atom bomb.
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AL Kennedy: Someone to Watch Over Me
Fri 20 Sep 2013
AL Kennedy reflects on our tendency to behave badly when we think no-one is looking.
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Great Pretenders
Fri 13 Sep 2013
AL Kennedy reflects on the stuggle to establish truth in an age of lies.
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Real Change
Fri 6 Sep 2013
AL Kennedy doesn't like change. But she thinks she should change her atittude.
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Of the People, By the People 4/4
Fri 30 Aug 2013
Roger Scruton concludes his series of talks on the nature and limits of democracy.
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Of the People, By the People 3/4
Fri 23 Aug 2013
Roger Scruton continues his series of talks on the nature and limits of democracy.
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Of the People, By the People 2/4
Fri 16 Aug 2013
Roger Scruton continues his series of talks on the nature and limits of democracy.
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Roger Scruton: Of the People, By the People 1/4
Fri 9 Aug 2013
Roger Scruton argues that democracy alone is not enough for political freedom.
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Machiavelli's Summer in Tuscany
Fri 2 Aug 2013
Sarah Dunant on why Machiavelli wrote his seminal work 'The Prince' one summer in Tuscany.
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Reforming Catholicism in 140 Characters
Fri 26 Jul 2013
Sarah Dunant suggests what Pope Francis should tell his Twitter followers.
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A Big Day for Bert and Ernie?
Fri 19 Jul 2013
Sarah Dunant reflects on the power of a cartoon showing Bert and Ernie as a gay couple.
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A Sporting Catharsis
Fri 12 Jul 2013
A week after Wimbledon, amid the Ashes, Sarah Dunant reflects on sport's cathartic power.
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Gender Matters
Fri 5 Jul 2013
Sarah Dunant reflects on feminism and the ousting of Australia's prime minister.
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Anyone for Art?
Fri 28 Jun 2013
Tom Shakespeare presents the last of his four essays. Isn't it time to democratize art?
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A Midsummer Daydream
Fri 21 Jun 2013
Shouldn't we in Britain have better festivals? Shouldn't we celebrate Midsummer?
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Fly, Fish, Mouse and Worm
Fri 14 Jun 2013
Tom Shakespeare on 'model animals' and the success of the reductionism scientific strategy
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Can Compassion Be Taught?
Fri 7 Jun 2013
Tom Shakespeare asks if compassion can be taught, in the first of his four essays.
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Gatsby: The Perfect Fake
Fri 31 May 2013
John Gray finds new resonance for our own age in the story of 'The Great Gatsby'.
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The Doors of Perception
Fri 24 May 2013
John Gray argues for another way of seeing the world, inspired by writer Arthur Machen.
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The Meaning of Evil
Fri 17 May 2013
John Gray turns to the writer Patricia Highsmith for a perspective on the meaning of evil.
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The Myth of Modernity
Fri 10 May 2013
John Gray draws on the novels of Mervyn Peake to expose the myth of modernity.
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The Limits of Materialism
Fri 3 May 2013
John Gray draws on Walter de la Mare to argue against the creed of scientific materialism.
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John Gray: Bitcoin's Cyber Freedom
Fri 26 Apr 2013
John Gray wonders what the rise of the cyber currency Bitcoin tells us about ourselves.
