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Virtues of Vulnerability with Ed Balls

Ed Balls and guests reflect on the impact of showing one’s vulnerable side.

James Naughtie probes the chequered history and impact of prime ministers' top advisers.

Novelist Deborah Levy assesses the life and work of American writer Susan Sontag.

Timandra Harkness asks if the nation is more divided now than it has been for fifty years

The history of a phantom fear -that automation will end work and leave us nothing to do.

Murray Lachlan Young traces the rise of hyperbole and asks: Have we reached Peak Hype?

The story of the fight that gripped the world in 1938 between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling.

Mick Jagger's personal assistant returns to the scene of the Rolling Stones' 1969 concert.

Michael Goldfarb looks back at how impeachment became a tool of US partisan politics.

Philip Cowley explores how technology influenced elections long before the digital age.