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3rd June 2024: Bridgerton, "messianic" politicians & AI's liberation of humanity
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This week, Bex Chapman unlock's Bridgerton's complex identity coding; Cameron Wiltshire-Plant advises his younger self not to believe in the messianic hype of politicians and Daniel Kim suggests that AI's dominance could unleash our very humanity
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S&UA short: Watching Grenfell - the lost art of penitence by Graham Tomlin
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30:25|This week we start with Jared Stacy unpacking how projections and polls cannot capture the power of stories shaping identity and US election politics; Roger Bretherton asks why it is that "sorry" just might be the hardest word and Helen Cowan dives into a poem by JRR Tolkien which speaks to her, poignantly, about the experience of living with dementia.16th September 2024: Labour PMs & Britpop; the poignancy of aging parents and the surprising wisdom of Deadpool & Wolverine
26:50|In this episode, George Pitcher tracks the cultural story of Oasis and two Labour Prime Ministers; Katherine Amphlett visits her aging parents and needs to put on an armour of feathers while James Lawrence finds a surprising story amid the cynical desert of Deadpool and Wolverine's nihilism.9th September 2024: Inside Out, Wild God and Grenfell's Tale of Two Towers
29:20|This week we enter a world of high drama - internally we voyage with Henna Cundill through the spiritual potential of the Inside Out films; Belle Tindall takes us on an emotional ride through Nick Cave's new album, Wild God; and Graham Tomlin challenges us to see The Grenfell Tower Inquiry as a significant cultural moment to reflect personally and nationally on the way we treat each other.2nd September 2024: how to find meaning - in Olympic gold; music and the big questions of life
26:20|This week we contemplate the challenges of winning and losing as Julia Kendal asks what Simone Biles might be doing today; Oliver Wright explores the relationship between religion and music and Silvianne & Barnabas Aspray ask why religion and faith aren't dying any time soon26th August 2024: paganism, secularism and faith found in publishing and in the Olympics
23:39|This week's episode finds George Pitcher hoping that faith and religion are being given a revival in the world of publishing and Graham Tomlin explores the Paris Olympics for evidence of the choice between faith, secularism and modern paganism12th August 2024: Summer Box Set Special: Summer Holidays
22:43|In this Summer Box Set Special, Jamie Mulvaney thinks about third spaces and when the journey is the destination; Natalie Garrett makes a case for taking a holiday and Roger Bretherton talks us through how to get the best out of our downtime29th July 2024: Summer Box Set special: Emerson Csorba on politics, purpose and people encounters
34:02|Our Summer Box Set Special is dedicated to Emerson Csorba. He talks us through US politics with a focus on James Baker; he asks what's the point of purpose and how do we find it? and he contemplates the power of supposedly random encounters with people.15th July 2024: Myth maketh meaning; the Disneyfication of the monasteries and mistake make us human
23:40|In the second of our Summer episodes, Simon Horobin unpacks CS Lewis's assertion that great stories allow ideas to be experienced rather than merely thought about; James Cary explores the Disneyfication of the Monasteries in Shardlake and Sylvianne Aspray asserts that it's our mistakes that set us apart from the machines.