Escapism

The 'bread of life', your 'bread and butter', bread riots and 'let them eat cake', gentrification and bakeries: Shahidha Bari hosts the round-table discussion programme about ideas and, as part of Radio 4's Farming Tomorrow season of programmes, our topic is bread. Shahidha's gue ...  عرض المزيد

What is left unsaid and who is missing from historical archives? Reading against the grain is a way of thinking about these questions and in the week when Woman's Hour marks 80 years of broadcasting, Radio 4's Friday night round table discussion programme about ideas traces the w ...  عرض المزيد

How do you find the courage to leave the world you know and make your way to a completely different reality? This episode, TED speakers share ideas about escape and renewal.Guests include author Pico Iyer, NXIVM whistleblower Sarah Edmondson, captain and navigator Lehua Kamalu an ...  عرض المزيد

One of the ways we've been killing time during quarantine is by escaping reality through the TV we're watching, the books we are reading, the podcasts we are listening to and the games we are playing. In this episode we list and recommend all the things that are helping us forget ...  عرض المزيد

With Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi – Eimear McBride on the dark side of bad sex writing and why a new anthology is nothing to be snickered at; Diana Darke on the stories of two young women who have fled war in the Middle East and the new pressures they face; and Jenny Hendrix jo ...  عرض المزيد

Can Greg James work out the clues and get out of an escape room on wheels? Plus we've got famous quotes, but were they said by a Love Islander or Philosopher?