A Point of View Podcast
A weekly reflection on a topical issue
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Where there's muck there's art
Friday
Sarah Dunant on the thorny relationship between culture and the money that supports it.
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So Many Kinds of Britons: Who Knew?
Fri 15 Mar 2019
Zia Haider Rahman on why Brexit has made him feel closer to Britain.
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Calling a spade a spade
Fri 1 Mar 2019
Tom Shakespeare on why we are in urgent need of a bit of plain speaking.
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Cookery shows...and hungry people
Fri 22 Feb 2019
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
Fri 15 Feb 2019
AL Kennedy on how the British sense of humour is standing up to our political woes.
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The Organ Recital
Fri 8 Feb 2019
Will Self asks why our relationship with our bodies has become such a distant one.
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The Sea Is Back
Fri 1 Feb 2019
Stella Tillyard argues that the sea - long forgotten - is beginning to reassert itself.
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The trouble with referendums
Fri 25 Jan 2019
Val McDermid argues that referendums have had a devastating effect on our political system
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Brexit and the English Revolution
Fri 18 Jan 2019
Linda Colley asks if - eventually - Brexit could be the modernizing force the UK needs.
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Have we reached Peak Stuff?
Fri 11 Jan 2019
Stella Tillyard ponders whether we are freeing ourselves from the grip of 'things'.
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The Online Password
Sun 6 Jan 2019
Tom Shakespeare on the near impossible task of remembering online passwords.
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What did you do during the environmental collapse, daddy?
Fri 7 Dec 2018
Will Self ponders what we should say to our children about global warming.
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The witch-hunt culture
Fri 30 Nov 2018
Roger Scruton argues that political correctness is the ultimate source of our conflicts.
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Speak, History!
Fri 23 Nov 2018
Stella Tillyard on why history no longer seems an adequate guide to our present.
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Going into Storage
Fri 16 Nov 2018
Howard Jacobson's very tricky dilemma... which of his possessions can he throw away?
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Only Remembered
Fri 9 Nov 2018
Michael Morpurgo ponders our future connection with the First World War.
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Not a good time to be a man
Fri 12 Oct 2018
Howard Jacobson reflects on maleness in the aftermath of the Brett Kavanaugh story.
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The Joy of Deferred Gratification
Fri 5 Oct 2018
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
Fri 28 Sep 2018
Val McDermid on Sadiq Khan's plans to tackle knife crime.
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Murder is not the point
Fri 21 Sep 2018
Val McDermid argues that crime fiction is not really about murder at all.
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Serena and the Umpire
Fri 14 Sep 2018
Adam Gopnik examines the issues raised by the row between Serena Williams and an umpire.
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Parity of Esteem
Fri 31 Aug 2018
Will Self tells the story of what happened to a friend in a psychiatric hospital.
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