In this episode we give some personal historical context to Labour’s disastrous showing in the recent UK elections; we mark the death of Bernie Madoff with a look inside a Ponzi Scheme; travel to some of the UK’s remote and mysterious tidal islands and ask who was the artist known as William Black? 

From the archives, it’s three years since my father died and I thought I would share some highlights from “Band of Scholars” a book I wrote about his and three of his contemporaries’ experience of active service in the Second World War.