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Season Three is now available to stream, exploring issues of motherhood and choice, black resistance and racist policing, and taking listeners inside the weird and wonderful world of quantum mechanics and behind the scenes of the new Space Race. We also learn why our minds need the wild, and what our ancient ancestors can tell us about who we are today.
Season Two tackles care and mortality, consent and desire, activism and faith, the polarisation of our public sphere, and humanity's relationship to the cosmos.
Season One explores issues of faith and fraternity, intimacy and technology, charity and virtue, black feminism and sensuous knowledge, race and belonging, and work and desire in late capitalism.
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Tuesday, 26th October 2021
As the private sector promises to make us all "astronauts", we talk to author Nick Schmidle about wealth, machoism and the people working behind the scenes of the new Space Race.
Wednesday, 20th October 2021
A conversation about institutional racism and the mobilising of whiteness in the UK with sociologist Adam Elliott-Cooper.
Tuesday, 12th October 2021
A candid conversation about maternity and reproductive justice with behavioural scientist Pragya Agarwal.
Tuesday, 5th October 2021
We talk to the "poet of physics" about the history, and sheer wonder, of quantum theory.
Tuesday, 28th September 2021
We're told that exposure to "nature" aids our mental health, but what does the evidence look like? And what is "nature" anyway?
Tuesday, 21st September 2021
What can we learn from the burial sites of the earliest Britons? Alice Roberts discusses her new book "Ancestors" and tells us how she came to be a humanist.
Tuesday, 13th April 2021
The head of the Polarization Lab gives us his cutting-edge insights on how to tackle tribalism online – and they're not what you might think.
Tuesday, 6th April 2021
The poet and broadcaster reflects on the value of life and the "many different kinds of love" he experienced after Covid-19 and a brush with death.
Tuesday, 30th March 2021
We're taken on a dazzling journey through the history of science, mythology and our relationship with the night sky.
Tuesday, 23rd March 2021
A conversation about borders and belonging, through the story of the thousands of Black Britons deported to Jamaica.
Tuesday, 16th March 2021
How does religion relate to social movements in the modern world? We talk to sociologist Rosie Hancock about the complex intersection between faith and activism.
Tuesday, 9th March 2021
We talk to the author of "Tomorrow, Sex Will Be Good Again" about choice and desire in the #MeToo era, and the burden on women to know what they want.
Tuesday, 15th December 2020
Sociologist Jason Arday recalls his South London teenagehood during the Blair years in a wide-ranging discussion on music and identity, racism and resistance.
Tuesday, 15th December 2020
We talk to the co-author of "Work Want Work: Labour and Desire at the End of Capitalism" on how the logic of labour dominates our lives, and how we might untangle ourselves.
Tuesday, 8th December 2020
In this fourth episode of With Reason, we talk to Minna Salami about her bold new book "Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone" and its radical call to embrace a deeper way of knowing.
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About the podcast
Intelligent thinking for turbulent times, from New Humanist magazine and the Rationalist Association. Interviews with thinkers who speak to our age – on subjects including religion, race, politics, sex, tech, work and much more. Hosted by Samira Shackle, Niki Seth-Smith and series producer Alice Bloch.
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