After a long break... we're back! This time with Mark Anderson talking about how men got hairy between the mid-50s and the mid-70s, and Tim Murray's research recalling Jesus's teachings on generosity and money. Broadcast from Bavaria.

Abigail Rhodes from the University of Nottingham on the role of conversation in the campaigns of social movements.

Richard Fallon on dinosaurs in Victorian Britain, and Nicola Blacklaws on the Poor Law and its implications for the modern welfare state.

Maureen Williams from Trinity College Dublin on parasites in ecosystems, and Craig McAngus from the University of Aberdeen on what's really going on in Scottish politics in 2017.

Guy Kiddey talks to locust-expert Jonathan Smith on the ins and outs of swarming, and to Patrick Murphy about a little-known early force for reconciliation in Ireland.

Guy Kiddey talks to Joe Hall about the social history of rugby union, and to Andy Chick about how nicotine affects the decomposition of organic matter by maggots. Yum.

Guy Kiddey talks to an animal behaviour expert in Edinburgh and a bumblebee geneticist in Leicester, and hears music from Questing Spirit.