Season Three is now available to stream, exploring issues of motherhood and choice, black resistance and racist policing, and taking listeners inside the weird and wonderful world of quantum mechanics and behind the scenes of the new Space Race. We also learn why our minds need the wild, and what our ancient ancestors can tell us about who we are today.
Season Two tackles care and mortality, consent and desire, activism and faith, the polarisation of our public sphere, and humanity's relationship to the cosmos.
Season One explores issues of faith and fraternity, intimacy and technology, charity and virtue, black feminism and sensuous knowledge, race and belonging, and work and desire in late capitalism.
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As the private sector promises to make us all "astronauts", we talk to author Nick Schmidle about wealth, machoism and the people working behind the scenes of the new Space Race.
What can we learn from the burial sites of the earliest Britons? Alice Roberts discusses her new book "Ancestors" and tells us how she came to be a humanist.
How does religion relate to social movements in the modern world? We talk to sociologist Rosie Hancock about the complex intersection between faith and activism.
Sociologist Jason Arday recalls his South London teenagehood during the Blair years in a wide-ranging discussion on music and identity, racism and resistance.
We talk to the co-author of "Work Want Work: Labour and Desire at the End of Capitalism" on how the logic of labour dominates our lives, and how we might untangle ourselves.
In this fourth episode of With Reason, we talk to Minna Salami about her bold new book "Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone" and its radical call to embrace a deeper way of knowing.
About the podcast
Intelligent thinking for turbulent times, from New Humanist magazine. Interviews with thinkers who speak to our age – on subjects including religion, race, politics, sex, tech, work and much more. Hosted by Samira Shackle, Niki Seth-Smith and series producer Alice Bloch.