Our Revels Now Are Ended
Howard Jacobson reflects on the radio essay, after almost two decades of A Point of View. With nods to Clive James, body-pierced baritones a...
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20 of 785 episodesHow History Begins Again
The celebrated American theorist, Francis Fukuyama, in his book 'The End of History and the Last Man' argued that US-style liberalism was th...
Elbows Up: Canada v Trump
After Donald Trump proposed that Canada could be consumed as America's 51st State, Adam Gopnik reflects on his homeland's history with the U...
Leaning In to Social Media
Zoe Strimpel explains why she's decided to lean in to social media, and not worry about how much time she spends scrolling. Despite ongoing...
Tractors in Whitehall
As farmers prepare for another march at Whitehall in protest at the government's inheritance tax plans, Michael Morpurgo discusses the growi...
Print the Legend
Tom Shakespeare explores the pitfalls of dramatised history and its influence on real life - but confesses to his own minor role in rewritin...
The Joy of Archives
From sacks of correspondence belonging to a well known author to archives from the Battle of Waterloo (and the odd wooden leg), Sara Wheeler...
Geese, Aristotle and Migration
Walking along the muddy tracks of the River Ouse near her home a few days ago, Rebecca Stott reflects on migration. She contemplates the liv...
The Overwhelm
The 'overwhelm' - noun, not verb - has been around 'since at least 1596', AL Kennedy discovers. She looks at the reasons why the word is mak...
On Hyperbole
Remember the days, Howard Jacobson implores us, when we got on fine with 'very'? Today, Howard argues, 'very’ is not ‘very’ enough for the t...
Trump, Washington and America First
As Donald Trump prepares to re-enter the White House, Mark Damazer reflects on America's leadership in the world. Eavesdropping on a focus g...
On a Gloomy Moment
In deepest, darkest January, Adam Gopnik muses on light and dark. Adam reminds us that - from the natural world of the ghost moth to the pol...
The Best I Can Do
Sara Wheeler explains why every week for several decades - despite knowing nothing about art - she has called in to London’s National Galler...
On Resolutions
Megan Nolan rediscovers a childhood diary with her first New Year's Resolutions. She was fascinated and appalled, she says, by what she read...
A Jolly Good Pud
Mary Beards reflects on what really lies behind our attachment to Christmas ritual and tradition. In a special edition of A Point of View, r...
Monster Soup
With water companies reeling from criticism over sewage discharge and rising bills, Stephen Smith squelches through London's watery underwor...
A baby's-eye view of the world
Zoe Strimpel on the joys of seeing the world through the eyes of her 9 month old daughter. 'Where previously I would barely have noticed the...
House Clearing
Rebecca Stott ponders the task of clearing her Mum's house, and the enormous difficulty of dismantling the things her mother loved and that...
The New Centre Ground
John Gray believes the British state is broken, and that we urgently need a new centre ground in British politics. 'Outside the echo chamber...
Existentialism and an Escaped Monkey
From the escape of Cholmondley the chimp from London Zoo in 1848, to Chichi from the Kharkiv Zoo in 2022, to a group of 43 macaque monkeys f...
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