Birthday Boy

“The Horses” by Ted Hughes

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Amy Wetsch

Life, magnified

New Year, Old Year

“The Horses” by Edwin Muir

Poems read aloud, beautifully

The Snow Maiden

Our final episode of 2018 is a send-off to the solstice

Ho Ho Horror

Why not make this Christmas a little darker?

A Story for Christmas

“Snow” by Louis MacNeice

Poems read aloud, beautifully

The Diagnostician of Despair

Why Rousseau believed that Enlightenment values would lead us to ruin

Crowdsourced Clairvoyance

Sam Knight on the psychiatrist who tried to predict disaster

Voices of the Displaced

The plight of Ukraine’s refugees in Poland

The Runaway

“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” by Christopher Marlowe

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Sydney: A City Beyond Savings

A letter from Sydney, Australia

The Intelligence Gatherers

The secret history of how Imperial Russia kept an eye on its Chinese neighbor

Frightfully Askew

What asymmetry in art can tell us about the way we view sickness and health, life and death

Our Way

“In Country Sleep” by Dylan Thomas

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Ann Provan

Where the Staircase Ends

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