A Point of View Episodes Episode guide
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A new politics?
John Gray reflects on how the election has changed politics.
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Renouncing Middlemarch
Howard Jacobson on why he must renounce George Eliot's greatest novel, Middlemarch.
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After Manchester
Howard Jacobson reflects on his home city's response to the Manchester attack.
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The Fearsome Nature of Literary Festivals
Howard Jacobson on literary festivals and the violent nature of creativity.
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In praise of the elite
Howard Jacobson speaks up in defence of the much-maligned metropolitan liberal elite.
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On robots
Howard Jacobson argues that talk of the dangers of artificial intelligence is premature.
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Trust in Voices
A L Kennedy commends paying attention to voices as a way to discern truth telling.
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The Past in the Present
A.L. Kennedy reflects on the way our past shapes our present and our future.
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The Power of Reading
AL Kennedy extols the virtues of reading and its power to encourage respect for others.
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Bad News is Good Business
AL Kennedy says we should reject the media outlets that peddle only bad news.
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Dementia Rights
Tom Shakespeare argues that dementia should be viewed as a disability.
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The Power and Peril of Stories
Tom Shakespeare reflects on why the political populists are all master story tellers.
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Sic transit
Tom Shakespeare on why we shouldn't wallow in the past.
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The Screensaver of Life, or the Idling Brain
Stella Tillyard looks at the phenomenon of the "idling brain".
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Flying Saucers and an Uncertain World
John Gray asks how we come to terms with a world that is frighteningly unpredictable.
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The Spectre of Populism
John Gray discusses what has fuelled 'populism' today.
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The Follies of Experts
John Gray on how we can prepare ourselves for an 'unknowable future'.
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Protecting Our Way of Life
John Gray examines what lies behind our desire to protect our "way of life".
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States of Confusion
Will Self on why we really should spend time worrying about why we are here.
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Teaching to the test
Will Self says it's time to end "teaching to the test".
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The Fourth Plinth
Will Self on the role of public art projects like the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square.
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Re-launching National Service
Will Self argues for the re-introduction of National Service.
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The fun of work - really?
Will Self on how the worlds of work and education have become seamlessly merged.
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The Shape Of Our Time
Adam Gopnik explores the differences between patriotism and nationalism.
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Word of 2016: People
Howard Jacobson searches for his Word of the Year.
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"Baby It's Cold Outside"
Adam Gopnik on the controversy surrounding the Christmas song Baby It's Cold Outside.
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Holes in Clothes
Adam Gopnik reflects on the greater significance of designer holes in jeans!
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Bob Dylan and the Bobolaters
Adam Gopnik reflects on Bob Dylan's predictable lack of gratitude towards his Nobel Prize.
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A Liberal Credo
Adam Gopnik muses on liberals and liberalism.
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The Week Gone By
Adam Gopnik asks how America can preserve a liberal, open society.
