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Kant today, Spice Girls Reunited, Impersonating an Animal
Girl power past and present, the wisdom of goats and seagulls and Kant's ideas on reason.
Tacitus, Byron's fanmail and Bluey
Mary Beard, Konnie Huq, Helen Carr and Tom Peck join Shahidha Bari.
Change, Scrabble and Cultural Christianity
Matthew Sweet and guests look at ideas about change: political, climate, personal.
Hobbes, Abba, Waterloo and margarine
Matthew Sweet and guests look back at the week exploring the ideas shaping our lives today
Pranks
Matthew Sweet and guests assess the value of pranks and what purpose they may serve.
Writing Place
Sylvia Townsend Warner's move to Dorset, Heidegger's Heimat and the River Arun in Sussex.
Approaches to death
Archaeologists Marianne Hem Eriksen, Pauline Harding: historians Cat Byers, Harriet Soper
Happiness
Matthew Sweet investigates the history, politics and economics of this elusive concept.
Scottish Kingship
Medieval myth making, the kings of Scotland and the Stone of Destiny.
Free speech, censorship and modern China
The writings of Chinese women, from Ding Ling to coming of age in the 1990s