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Politics—Changing My Mind

3/5 Author Julian Barnes discusses his changing views about politics over the years.

2/5 Julian Barnes on how he uses words, asking what did they ever mean and what they mean now.

1/5 Author Julian Barnes explores ideas of vacillation, uncertainty and memory.

4/5 Audio producers from around the world bring a touch of Between the Ears to The Essay.

4/4 Sindre Leganger discusses living near a Norwegian mountain said to be about to collapse.

3/4 A musical radio piece about the empty space between people who were once very close.

2/4 Michael Umney with a poetic exploration of the countryside, farming and false nostalgia.

1/4 Sophie Townsend explores what beginnings might be found when everything has ended.

5/5 Horatio Clare discusses the 12th-century tale of Lludd and Llefelys from the Mabinogion.

4/5 What the Mabinogion stories can teach us about the role of nature in the Celtic mind.