The author of East West Street returns with another history about a dark family past

A different account of blackness in America

What does fiction have to say to a seemingly endless real world battle?

Plus what the Nobel Prize-winner makes of Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders

Plus what happened to the Arab Spring

From the myth of the Amazons to Joan of Arc

Behind the one quality that helps opposition leaders succeed

Plus the difference between machine learning and deep learning, and why it's easier to beat a world champion chess player than use common sense

A crossover episode on judicial review and the Human Rights Act with the Better Human podcast

An HP by any other name may smell as sweet...