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26 May 2024: Genocides, and why we as a species are capable of such things. The twentieth century was littered with genocides. Those in Armenia, Nazi Germany, Rwanda and Bosnia are the most notorious … Meryem Kalayci and James Smith discuss this most

26 May 2024: A light- hearted discussion about positive thinking in bad times. Can positive thinking create its own momentum, or to put it another way, does negativity reap its own bad harvest? Esther-Miriam Wagner and Robert Tombs read the runes. Woolf

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26 May 2024: Many families in the UK open their homes to provide refuge for fleeing Ukrainians. What is the history and the future of sanctuary? The idea of sanctuary for the oppressed individual or for groups of people fleeing persecution or war is an ancient

26 May 2024: Immortality is a fantasy so we better get real about death and dying. How should we prepare for death? How can we cope when those we love die? Medical advances mean life can be prolonged as never before but is this the right way to go? Joining Ed

25 May 2024: Irish writer Rose Doyle talks to Ed Kessler about her son’s suicide. Suicide is more common than we might think: no one is immune from suicidal thoughts and there are more than 5,000 actual deaths by suicide in the UK each year. Rose Doyle tells

26 May 2024: Are we reaching a tipping point in our attitudes towards racial inequality? When George Floyd’s brutal killing was captured on video, Black Lives Matter protests quickly spread across the world. In England, the statue of the 17th century slave

26 May 2024: What does it mean to be free? When the Berlin Wall came down in 1991, the writer Alan Bennet quipped mordantly about ‘the freedom to shop’. Of course there was much more to it than that. Esther-Miriam Wagner and Alexander Massmann join Ed

26 May 2024: Have you been betrayed before? Betrayal is a harsh, even melodramatic word. And yet most people feel that they’ve experienced it at some point in their lives or worry that they might have been guilty of betraying someone else. An act of betrayal

26 May 2024: There’s a disturbing amount of antisemitic material on social media, and hate postings in general are rife. Following an increase in antisemitic postings on social media, the Antisemitism Policy Trust looked into it and asked the Woolf Institute