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Crime and punishment medieval to modern

Matthew Sweet's guests include Lord Sumption and criminal barrister Joanna Hardy-Susskind

Depictions of working class life on TV and in culture and how they've changed

The history of an idea that's shaped political philosophy, from Plato to Carl Schmitt

Anne McElvoy and guests discuss labour in terms of both work and childbirth

From spying behind enemy lines in WWII France to lives lived online

Gisela Stuart, AN Wilson, Fern Riddell, Sarah Williams, Matthew Stallard, Matthew Sweet

Matthew Sweet explores the cultures of novelty

Travel past and present and broadening the mind? Travel journalists and historians debate

Is idleness ever a virtue? Matthew Sweet investigates

Matthew Sweet and guests ask who makes history and debate arguments in the Reith lectures