Adam Phillips: On Tantrums

Adam Phillips: On Tantrums

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On Politics: What went wrong with HS2 (and almost everything else)

HS2 was conceived at a cost of £37.5 billion and originally supposed to link London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. It will now connect only two stations outside London and Birmingham at a projected cost of more than £100 billion, and perhaps won’t even be ‘high speed’. To dis ...  Show more

Poetry and the Turning World: Technology

When Robert Browning was asked to become the first poet to be recorded, on an Edison wax cylinder in 1889, he forgot his own poem. In the second episode of their series, Sarah Howe and Sandeep Parmar consider what happens when poetry, and poets, meet technology, and why a poem it ...  Show more

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Why Adam Became a Hypnotist
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Adam creates a short episode explaining why he became a hypnotherapist. 

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