成人快手

History - the long and short of it

Peter Frankopan, Alison Light, Bronwen Maddox and Zeinab Badawi join Matthew Sweet.

• 57 mins

The illusion of time, the summer solstice & the philosophy of comedy

Mark Miodownik, Emily Herring, Rob Newman and Fay Dowker consider Time with Matthew Sweet.

• 57 mins

Escapism

Matthew Sweet and guests question whether you can ever really escape.

• 57 mins

Carl Schmitt, democracy and dictatorship

Anne McElvoy with guests including David Runciman and Gisela Stuart

• 57 mins

Crisis & Decision

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

• 57 mins

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

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

• 57 mins

Why we read

Shahidha Bari and guests discuss the value of reading fiction and of writing history.

• 57 mins

Childhood and innocence

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

• 57 mins

Insiders & Outsiders

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

• 57 mins

Are we all American now?

Freddy Gray, Dr Katie McGettigan, Amanda Taub, Kit Davis and Rana Mitter join Anne McElvoy

• 57 mins

Ghosts, death and ecstatic states

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

• 57 mins

Milton and our modern world

It is 350 years since the death of Milton. We discuss ideas of Puritanism and divorce.

• 57 mins

Cosy comfort reading or Nietzsche?

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

• 57 mins

Diplomacy from Ancient Greece to Trump

Sir Nigel Sheinwald, Professor Clare Jackson, Bronwen Maddox, Dr Holly Furneaux

• 57 mins