Inside the new Space Race w/Nick Schmidle
As the private sector promises to make us all "astronauts", we talk to author Nick Schmidle about wealth, machoism and the people working behind the scenes of the new Space…
Culture
Book review: Terminal Boredom: Stories
Izumi Suzuki's fiction melds the mundanity of the present - addictions, heartbreaks - with the robots and alien races of the future.
Black resistance and racist policing w/Adam Elliott-Cooper
A conversation about institutional racism and the mobilising of whiteness in the UK with sociologist Adam Elliott-Cooper.
(M)otherhood and choice w/Pragya Agarwal
A candid conversation about maternity and reproductive justice with behavioural scientist Pragya Agarwal.
“Britain’s ancients shaped the land. Their remains fuel our imaginations”
We speak with Mike Pitts, author of a new history of ancient Britain, on human social transformation on these isles over a million years.
Chronicles of decline
Rather than ignoring the ageing process, Laurie Taylor decides to develop a "Personal Deterioration Index".
In a word
The verb "to cancel" is being given new life. But who is cancelling whom?
Blood carbon
The industrial revolution led to great progress, but it was fuelled by global injustice.
Book review: The Travel Writing Tribe
A new book maps the changing face of travel writing, once seen as the domain of white middle class men.
Learning from our ancestors w/ Alice Roberts
What can we learn from the burial sites of the earliest Britons? Alice Roberts discusses her new book "Ancestors" and tells us how she came to be a humanist.