Episodios

  • 29th September 2025: Severance, child poverty & what makes us human

    29th September 2025: Severance, child poverty & what makes us human
    Sep 29 2025
    This week, Rick Hansen explores the worlds of Apple TV's Severance through the lens of Blaise Pascal; George Pitcher asks how a supposedly "Godly nation" can have such extensive levels child poverty and Claire Williams asks the biggest question of all, what makes us human?

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    23 m
  • 22nd September 2025: Protests; Demonic AI Chatbots & Charlie Kirk

    22nd September 2025: Protests; Demonic AI Chatbots & Charlie Kirk
    Sep 22 2025

    This week, Thomas Sharpe gives us an on-the-ground view of the protests against the protests in Trafalgar Square; Gabrielle Thomas asks whether AI chatbots are demonic and Graham Tomlin dives deep into the event of Charlie Kirk's murder.


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    24 m
  • 15th September 2025: nuanced thought; theological debate & the summer we turned romantic

    15th September 2025: nuanced thought; theological debate & the summer we turned romantic
    Sep 15 2025
    This week, Graham Tomlin suggests we have much to learn about nuanced cultural debate from the writers of the Nicene Creed; Henna Cundill agrees as she explores how helpful studying theology is for compassionate, engaged debate in all spheres of life; Belle Tindall takes a deep dive into humanity's propensity for romance and marriage.

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    25 m
  • 8th September 2025: Ed Sheeran's Irishness; Being school-ready & Tim Burton's Wednesday

    8th September 2025: Ed Sheeran's Irishness; Being school-ready & Tim Burton's Wednesday
    Sep 8 2025
    This week, Julia Kendal looks beyond the flags flying to Ed Sheeran's (and our own) sense of national belonging; Henna Cundill asks whether the Education Secretary's new plans will genuinely help our children become school ready and life ready; Lauren Westwood explores Tim Burton's world of the outsider in Netflix's Wednesday.

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    24 m
  • 1st September 2025: Wallis Island; Thursday Murder Club and Voting at 16

    1st September 2025: Wallis Island; Thursday Murder Club and Voting at 16
    Sep 1 2025

    In this episode, Steve Dew-Jones finds his new favourite film in The Ballad of Wallis Island; Theodore Brun traces our obsession with cosy crime from Dostoyevsky to the Thursday Murder Club and Graham Tomlin reckons adolescence should be a safe space to be daft, not voting in elections.


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    22 m
  • 25th August 2025: Perfect Job; Bitcoin & Molly Mae

    25th August 2025: Perfect Job; Bitcoin & Molly Mae
    Aug 25 2025
    In this episode, Thomas Sharpe questions the vocational shame found on LinkedIn; Laurence Fletcher explores the rise of crypto evangelism; Susan Gray goes virtually travelling with Molly-Mae Hague.

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    24 m
  • 18th August 2025: Football, Disney and ChatGPT

    18th August 2025: Football, Disney and ChatGPT
    Aug 18 2025
    In this episode, Henry Corbett asks why fans are so invested in football; Natalie Garrett disobeys Disney and questions happiness; and Rick Hansen has a profound conversation with ChatGPT

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    20 m
  • 11th August 2025: Language, Danny Kruger and the Fantastic Four

    11th August 2025: Language, Danny Kruger and the Fantastic Four
    Aug 11 2025

    This week, Jonathan Rowlands suggests that learning other languages opens up other ways of experiencing the world; Graham Tomlin responds to Danny Kruger and his critics; Krish Kandiah shares what the Fantastic Four taught him about family, truth and navigating the end of the world.


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    27 m