A Point of View Episodes Episode guide
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Calling a spade a spade
Tom Shakespeare on why we are in urgent need of a bit of plain speaking.
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Cookery shows...and hungry people
AL Kennedy on TV's tendency to focus on disappearing parts of our national life.
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Humour that's worth its name
AL Kennedy on how the British sense of humour is standing up to our political woes.
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The Organ Recital
Will Self asks why our relationship with our bodies has become such a distant one.
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The Sea Is Back
Stella Tillyard argues that the sea - long forgotten - is beginning to reassert itself.
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The trouble with referendums
Val McDermid argues that referendums have had a devastating effect on our political system
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Brexit and the English Revolution
Linda Colley asks if - eventually - Brexit could be the modernizing force the UK needs.
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Have we reached Peak Stuff?
Stella Tillyard ponders whether we are freeing ourselves from the grip of 'things'.
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The Online Password
Tom Shakespeare on the near impossible task of remembering online passwords.
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To Parks
Howard Jacobson on the joys of city parks.
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On Not Being Oneself
Howard Jacobson on the Cult of Self.
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Money Sense
Will Self on why personal finance is an utterly alien concept.
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What did you do during the environmental collapse, daddy?
Will Self ponders what we should say to our children about global warming.
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The witch-hunt culture
Roger Scruton argues that political correctness is the ultimate source of our conflicts.
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Speak, History!
Stella Tillyard on why history no longer seems an adequate guide to our present.
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Going into Storage
Howard Jacobson's very tricky dilemma... which of his possessions can he throw away?
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Only Remembered
Michael Morpurgo ponders our future connection with the First World War.
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Clothes and the Man
Howard Jacobson on the politics of clothes.
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Cities of the Dead
Stella Tillyard reflects on how we bury and remember our dead.
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In Praise of Mooching
Howard Jacobson on the end of mooching as a way of life.
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Not a good time to be a man
Howard Jacobson reflects on maleness in the aftermath of the Brett Kavanaugh story.
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The Joy of Deferred Gratification
Val McDermid on why mass tourism is destroying the very thing we crave when we travel.
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Fixing violence in London - Glasgow-style
Val McDermid on Sadiq Khan's plans to tackle knife crime.
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Murder is not the point
Val McDermid argues that crime fiction is not really about murder at all.
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Serena and the Umpire
Adam Gopnik examines the issues raised by the row between Serena Williams and an umpire.
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On Prefixes
Adam Gopnik on why the prefixes we use speak volumes.
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Parity of Esteem
Will Self tells the story of what happened to a friend in a psychiatric hospital.
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Books do furnish a room
Tom Shakespeare is downsizing. But what to do with his books?
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Bin the Bucket List
Tom Shakespeare on why he rejects the idea of a bucket list.
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The Road to Peace
Michael Morpurgo discusses the importance of never taking peace for granted.
